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"Moor-In" Successful; Mayor Responds
by Roger Galloway, TSN
LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ - The “Moor-In” protest at the English Channel yesterday was a huge success for organizer Gregg Staples and many others who object to Mayor Harvey Jackson’s proposal to create a limited mooring ban in the channel. Staples says, “easily 110 to 115 boats participated” and he was both elated and surprised at the huge turnout.
Hundreds and hundreds of boaters and other locals who walked over to the south side of the channel lent their voices to the event. One boater displayed a large sign stating “We live here and we Vote." He also claimed he voted for Jackson, but “it was a big mistake.”
Staples told TSN: “The point is the locals just cannot tolerate this sort of thing and we’re not going to tolerate it. We are a very powerful voting block. It’s not a single issue thing. There are a whole lot of things going on. The whole thing is centered around Brian Springberg’s ‘enough’ (a prominent local businessman). This is just another enough.” Staples added that the mayor and certain members of the city council are “out of touch with the folks in town.”
Meanwhile, Mayor Jackson and Councilman Bruce Hinman were at the Lake Havasu swap meet in a special booth set up to talk to citizens about their problems.
The mayor defended his anti-mooring proposal saying he represents “50,000 people in this town and they have the rights to that channel.” He also told TSN that no one group is going to tell him “they have any more rights to the channel than any other citizen.” He wants boats to be prohibited on the “narrow parts of the channel, and says it was prohibited anyway before 1998. He said there should be a sign saying no mooring or no parking in those narrow parts and there may be a, “legal distinction on mooring, but he, 'could care less about it.'” He wants everyone in the community to come to the channel and bring their entire family and be welcomed.
Jackson again wanted to clarify he only wants “narrow” parts of the channel to have “no mooring.” He added that he sees no change in the “fatter” or broader parts of the channel and would leave that as is.
Councilman Hinman says he’s listening to various proposals from the citizens, and one that intrigues him is the idea of one-way north boat traffic only during big weekends. He was at the swap meet to hear ideas from the public.
Hinman says he is bothered by an increased party atmosphere and wants to look at the impact of preventing all alcohol in the channel. He also believes the city attorney and the council will have a resolution on the matter next month or in early March. Hinman said he’ll look carefully at the changes offered.
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