What I find contemptuous are a few citizens, and you know who you are—you know, the one who just hates everyone and everything, continually belittling anyone who tries to speak-out and make a difference in this City...the person who harbors contempt for those citizens who have any opinion and who finds conspiracy and hypocrisy in every written or verbal word.
The entire point of the Ramiccio story is not that someone downtown didn’t have a business license and was turned in by Mr. Ramiccio because a law was broken. It was the way in which he went about correcting the "problem" of the code violation by one of his members of the Chamber of Commerce.
The appropriate and sensible way to have handled this, if it was bothering Mr. Ramiccio that much and after so many years of that establishment operating not up to code, was to go to the owner and ask her to immediately obtain a business license and correct all possible code violations, not call Code Enforcement and have her subjected to a big spectacle with the fire department there too and shutting down her food business.
If he was not being vindictive, (the incident occurring the very next day after the CRA meeting) then that would have been the correct, friendly and businesslike approach by the head of the Chamber. I would be interested in hearing Mr. Ramiccio's reasoning behind his action.
