HUMMEL RESIGNS: CITIZENS REJOICE

6-year Bend councilor John Hummel resigns

In what has got to be the best news for this town in awhile, John Hummel is stepping down as a Bend City counselor. From the Bulletin article:

In John Hummel's six years on the Bend City Council, he earned a reputation for supporting the disenfranchised. Now he plans to leave Bend, and the United States, to help fight Third World poverty.

On Wednesday, Hummel resigned.

Hummel, a 37-year-old defense attorney, said he decided to change careers after watching world events unfold, post-Sept. 11, 2001. He concluded that poverty and terrorism were interconnected and that he could do the most good by attacking poverty at its source. So he's going back to school to become an international development consultant.

"We can use our military might to change minds, that's a philosophy that's out there. I think it's a wrong philosophy," said Hummel, in an interview Wednesday at Bend Brewing Co.

This man is a self-aggrandizing lawyer moron who has cost this town MILLIONS. He voted FOR the pieces of crap trolling our city streets he calls BUSES. These lemons, which don't run half the time, are the fault of Hummel and all other City counselors. Some counselors, like Mark Capell, wanted to do the right thing and own up to it. Hummel, a lawyer, wanted to sue. It's BUYER BEWARE, and Hummel, instead of wanting to own up to a huge financial boner, wants to sue the other guy.

Hummel defended his vote in favor of condemning the Juniper Utility Co., even though the decision will likely cost the city more than $9 million, but admitted he made mistakes on the council.

OK, this guy has cost us MILLIONS, and he DEFENDS it.

"When everyone else in the room was saying kick out the hot dog vendor, he stood up for this one guy," Merwin Cheney said.

He stood up for a hot-dog vendor, and he's a hero?

Hummel began considering a career change six months ago and settled on international business three months later.

Let's review: He's cost us MILLIONS. His solution to EVERYTHING is litigation. He wanted to keep the booming hot-dog industry alive. He's GOING INTO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. God help whoever hires this lunatic.

he decided to change careers after watching world events unfold, post-Sept. 11, 2001. He concluded that poverty and terrorism were interconnected and that he could do the most good by attacking poverty at its source.

WHAT? This is the biggest self-serving load of tripe I've ever heard. "Attacking poverty at its source"? Huh? By becoming a Bend City counselor? By upholding the rights of a hot-dog vendor? How about the rights of Mountain High's developer? Yeah, that one cost the good citizens of Bend NINE MILLION DOLLARS! Attacking poverty at its source, my ASS!

Before he leaves, though, Hummel said, he plans to squeeze out every drop of Bend living he has left.

You tell me that doesn't sound JUST LIKE A LAWYER? This mans only good deed is Quitting. For that, we owe him thanks.