[Vision2020] Lois, the MCA, and Weitz's recall effort

[Joan Opyr]

Lois is President of the MCA, but if she's writing as a private citizen and not on behalf of that organization, then she's correct not to include her MCA title.  E.g., I never sign my letters "Archbishop of Moscow" unless I'm speaking on behalf of The Church of Auntie Establishment.   

The Church has not yet achieved consensus on Gerry Weitz's Viola-based efforts to oust Pall, Dickinson, and Chaney.  In my own opinion, as far as Dr. Weitz's involvement is concerned, this is a "vanity recall."  The claim that the three named members of the City Council are out to shaft parochial students seems specious at best.  At worst, I suspect it's part of a back-handed effort by like-minded members of the City Council to rid themselves of three members who think a little differently.

BTW, if you're really interested in the ins and outs of this recall, then I suggest you ask around town and find out just who is circulating this petition, and what their connection might be to sitting council members.  Moscow's old boy network is at it again.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment

----- Original Message -----
From: John Danahy
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:10 PM
To: Vision2020
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 10-04-05 Daily News: LTTE by Lois Blackburn

Doesn’t Lois Blackburn hold some kind of leadership position in the MCA?  If so, should she have labeled herself as such in this letter?
John

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Art Deco
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:46 AM
To: Vision 2020
Subject: [Vision2020] 10-04-05 Daily News: LTTE by Lois Blackburn

From:  Moscow-Pullman Daily News, 01-04-05  

'Sinister agenda' a real concern  
Gerald Weitz cares about Moscow, has some very good ideas, and has put his energy and money behind them. He worries about making Moscow an attractive environment for good business. He has a valid concern for our need for vocational-technical training in the high school. He has provided a space for the alternative high school so that it could have its own building He has served on the Moscow School Board (although with a tendency to take his marbles and go home when his ideas were ignored). He supported the Mayor's Advisory Committee for the 1912 Building when that group worked so hard to get the 1912 Center restoration under way.  
However, he sometimes behaves like a small boy, lost with his rifle in the dark, firing away at the slightest noise or shadow. In his recent letter to the editor attempting to justify his call for a recall of half of the City Council, he gave a detailed list of his concerns about education, which is the responsibility of the Moscow School District rather than Linda Pall, Nancy Chaney, and John Dickinson.  
Weitz also referred to "discrimination against parochial elementary kids here in Moscow." Presumably, this refers to his original justification for wanting a recall: these council members asked St. Mary's School to go back to the drawing board on their gym plan, which had required a conditional use permit and a list of variances. This was not "discrimination against parochial students;" this was simply a request that the project be scaled to follow the zoning requirements. My real concern is that some group (not St. Mary's) with a sinister agenda has put Weitz up to this nonsense. I hope the community has the sense to ignore it.  
Lois Blackburn  
Moscow  
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