What does Dave Gordon getting 66 percent of the vote in a three-person election mean? This large percent of the vote means the people in Black Diamond are concerned about what has been going on in Black Diamond. They are waking up to what’s really been happening in city hall. I didn’t want my elected officials to buy into this giant development.

When people do take the time to think about it, they realize: What is going to happen to my property value? What is going to happen to my taxes? What is going to happen to the transportation system? And they know they don’t want to go through with this on a massive scale. They don’t want that type of development.

I want a country life, that’s why I’m living here. I don’t want masses of people. I’m living here because I have a little bit of freedom, it’s a place where you don’t have people living on top of you.

Now the people voted for a mayor that will look out for the town in years to come.

The old mayor and the planning commissioner weren’t paying attention to us. All they were doing was giving OKs to some developer that had no investment in the town at all except how much money they could make off the deal.

Bill Bryant

Black Diamond