Truth be told...

Of the many meaningful and thoughtful questions asked at last Monday's TRNA Candidate Forum, one concerned the plight of a series of eight properties in the neighborhood where the person asking this particular question lived.  The resident had sent an e-mail to the city -  to all elected officials and the city manager - asking for an explanation of the status of these problem properties back in late August.

That resident happened to be Mark Parrilla.  That is the same Mark Parrilla that was ejected from the City Commission chambers by the Mayor the next night for mouthing words to Lynn Anderson.

During the candidate froum, when asking his question, Mr. Parrilla pointed out that the Mayor did not respond to the e-mail he sent.  Mayor Waterman retorted, "Mark, you know I responded to that e-mail."

Well, it turns out that she didn't.  Mr. Parrilla filed a public information request for any e-mail correspondence from Rachel Waterman's city e-mail address to any of Mr. Parrilla's addresses.  The following shows that the Mayor did not, in fact, respond to the e-mail - but left the crowd in attendance last Monday with the impression that she did and that Mr. Parrilla was wrong or lying.

This explains the public information request.

This was the original e-mail talking about the problem properties.

This is the only e-mail from Mayor Waterman's city e-mail account to one of Mr. Parrilla's e-mail addreses.

This is Mr. Parrilla's request to local bloggers.