[Vision2020] City Council Meeting

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries and Pat:
 
You know, I don't give a bucket of applesauce what is or is not the common  
practice of other cities in supporting their Chambers of Commerce.  Most  other 
cities don't have Chambers that have selected employees from the  membership 
roster of a single local church; most other Chambers don't  ignore repeated 
requests for a non-discrimination employment policy; most other  Chambers spread 
the catering opportunities further than to businesses owned by  (you guessed 
it) the same specific local church; most other  Chambers don't tout traitors 
and slave-owners as leadership models  -- again because of the celebrated 
status of confederate leaders in that  blasted local church; and, last but not 
least, most other Chambers  understand that their role is to act as models of good 
business  practice while boosting the businesses of ALL of their  
members/constituents.  
 
And one more thing -- most Chambers of Commerce recognize the  necessity of 
maintaining transparent, accurate, and openly  accessible financial records.  
Our Chamber is about as open in its  dealings as the Borgias' Vatican.  The 
budget's a mess; complete and  accurate accounting records are mysteriously 
unavailable to members and the  public alike; and requests for valid information 
regarding the Chamber's  dealings and money-spending habits are met with a line 
of  hail-fellow-well-met bullshit that seems to play well with  the Old Boys 
and Aging Businesswomen Network but doesn't sit so well  with the rank and 
file. 
 
So research your little heart out, but to what end, Pat?  You might  compare 
our Chamber to Missoula's or Olympia's or Timbuktu's, but the  comparisons 
will lack any relevance to what's going on right here under our  noses.  Who 
cares what they do?  We live here.
 
Rose Huskey
"One cannot  level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are 
just too many  of them. But you can do something, and the difference between 
doing something  and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan


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