[Vision2020] 10-04-05 Daily News: LTTE by Lois Blackburn

[Tom Hansen]

Two words, Mr. Danahy -

 

GET REAL !

 

Should each and every person that writes to a newspaper, expressing their
personal opinion, be required to list every organization or association of
which they are affiliated?

 

Tom "I am" Hansen

 

PS - I would list all organizations of which I have (and/or am) affiliated,
but some of them are marginally legal.

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

  _____  

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of John Danahy
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:34 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

 

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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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