Sports News Links Features Business Opinion Obituaries Weather News of record News archives Recreation Golf Hiking, Etc. People can be passionate about their pets. So it's understandable that private citizen Steve Lacy got into an ugly little spat with a neighbor when the neighbor had Lacy's cat impounded. Lacy and the fellow next door have since apparently made up.
Peace reigns in the neighborhood.
But a disconcerting cloud hovers over actions by Lacy that went beyond his role as aggrieved pet owner. The cloud formed when Lacy began acting as aggrieved pet owner who also is mayor of East Wenatchee. After that altercation involving private citizen Lacy, Mayor Lacy brought the city's cat ordinance before the City Council. The Humane Society report on Lacy's neighborhood altercation says Lacy also injected his public position into the dispute by threatening to cancel the society's contract with the city. Lacy denies he said that.