Chico Examiner's Disorderly Conduct Column - November... -
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Published on: 11/5/1998
Last Visited: 7/15/2003
SO, GUZZETTI FOR MAYOR, George Matthews and Kimberly King on the Planning Commission, and, finally, Karl Ory on the Transit Advisory Board.
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Ory is a former mayor of Chico, and now works for a non-profit corporation assisting rural communities.He's an affable fellow, much mellowed from his old political days, but still a fountain of information and good judgement.Ory has a long interest in inter-city mass transit, trains and the like, and as such was interested in joining the Chico Transit Advisory Board.It would be a completely non-controversial appointment, and any decisions made by Ory's board could easily be overridden by the city council; appointing him would have been a nice gesture after a bitterly contested election.But no. After Keene and company took control they were so mean-spirited they rejected Ory out of simple spite.