Thanks for posting this. Rest assured that Jon/Mike/Pat/Edd won't let this die out, nor will their callers. Unfortunately, for the most part, that's preaching to the choir.
At least Lynn Ashbey was man enough to admit that the downtown developers were looting this town and saw it to be worse than the looting of Jesse Jones, Hoffeinz, et al of decades past.
Lynn also voted alternately in opposite party primaries (to receive both parties campaign literature). He seemed a little more virtuous in that he might actually vote for the better candidate (in his mind) in a primary rather than just sabotage an electon by giving support to a weak candidate.
Lynn Ashbey also worked (for what it's worth) with the creator of Mad Magazine/Comic Harvey Kurtzman. I have a couple of books of "caption this" photos from the 1960s that I need to get him to sign.