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Show Coon allegations exasperate By JUDY JENSEN Asst. Managing Editor w ' BOUNTIFUL A coun-cil coun-cil woman's drawn-out public battle with Mayor Robert Linnell brought responses of anger and exasperation from City Council members Monday. Mon-day. "I'm not going to comment," said Councilman Harold Sh after angrily. "She comments enough for all of us." Councilwoman Barbara Holt added that she was "outraged" that the news media was given a document docu-ment outlining allegations against the mayor by Councilwoman Renee Coon before the rest of the City Council had a chance to review it. 'I don't want to react before we have an open meeting during which r j we can discuss these allegations," Holt said. The document, released to the news media Friday, demands Mayor Linnell disclose all campaign cam-paign contributors and refuse future private meetings with officials building a natural gas pipeline that is opposed by a Bountiful faction that includes 12,000 petitioners. Coon's seven-page statement accused Linnell of publicly opposing oppos-ing the Wasatch Variation of the Kem River pipeline, while privately offering behind the scenes assistance that has been an important impor-tant asset of the pipeline companies." com-panies." Councilman Leslie Foy said he does not believe Coon has revealed any new information. "There is nothing there we didn't already know. I don't think ) her information is correct and I think she has taken quotes out of context and they don't mean anything. ' Pledging his support to Linnell, Foy said he would discuss the matter further at Wednesday's City Council meeting. The controversial proposed 900-mile 900-mile pipeline will transport natural gas from Wyoming to California, crossing the foothills east of Bountiful Boun-tiful along its way. Linnell has stated there were no campaign contributions con-tributions from groups or individuals in-dividuals associated with the company com-pany building the pipeline. Councilman Robert Gramoll, said he had "not checked his records" to personally find out who Linnell' s campaign contributors were, but he was willing to take the mayor's "word on it." |