[Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome

[Tom Hansen]

Now, Now Mr. Nisbet -

I may have made a mistake and erred.  Perhaps, to satisfy your criticism, I 
could have addressed which portion of South Hill's families are above 
average annual income and which portion of South Hill's families are below 
average annual income.  Those statistics are not available to me.  If this 
oversight has caused you grief, I apologize.

It seems that you had two choices:

1)  You could have attacked my premise that a South Hill Wal-Mart super 
center would not provide benefit to lower income famlies, which would have 
resulted in an informative debate or

2)  You could have attacked me personally concerning my lack of knowledge 
concerning the demographics of South Hill.

Ah, well . . .

Enough said.

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


>From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>To: pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome
>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:42:11 -0800
>
>Kai and Phil,
>
>Thanks for your responses.  Maybe I took your comments the wrong way, and 
>if I did, I'm sorry.  I think that there are very few places, other than 
>the former Cabrini-Greene in Chicago or the El Encanto neighborhood in 
>Tucson, perhaps, that are "all" slum or "all" prosperous.  I guess I 
>bristle at things like that because it tends to dismiss the successes of 
>the people in the "slums" and overlook the rot in the tony areas.  I'm not 
>naive; the neighborhood I grew up in was and is fairly run down, but I know 
>that decisions that were purported to have been made because of how 
>government perceived us rarely had our best interests in mind.
>
>Again, though, your respect and candor in correcting me is appreciated.
>
>keely
>
>
>From: "Phil Nisbet" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
>To: kjajmix1 at msn.com
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome
>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:26:47 -0800
>
>Keely
>
>My remarks about the South Hill had absolutely nothing to do with Wally 
>World.  Hansen, since that is his preference for me to call him, stated 
>that the South Hill of Spokane was loaded down with Rich Folks.  Having 
>lived there for a while, I stated that he was incorrect, since I was living 
>in the slums there and still have former in-laws living in the slums there. 
>  It was not meant as an attack on Hansen, just a statement that South Hill 
>is a lot more complex then he is aware.
>
>Phil Nisbet