[Vision2020] Just Cleaning the Air

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings Visionaires -

In Comb-Over Courtney's Brainless Log (BLog) at:

http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/03/29/42611.aspx

he states:

"A Hasty Reply

Joan Opyr Joan Opyr has hastily thrown together her reply to last night's
Conditional Use Permit decision in favor of NSA.

I need to disabuse Joan that a claim was made that NSA students spend $2
million downtown. That was a rumor fabricated on Vision2020 (like so many
other rumors around Moscow).

The report substantiated that NSA is worth $2 million to Moscow; not that
the students spend $2m downtown."

I could simply write this off as ignorant, uninformed blather from the BLog
(something prevalent in virtually all of his postings), but then he attacked
a friend with a weapon he is all too familiar with; lies.

I recommend, encourage, invite, direct your attention, . . . whatever it
takes for the fine Moscow citizenry to read the letter signed by NSA's
Honorary Executive Vice President for Administration and Advancement Bob
Hieronymus (and distributed to various businesses in Moscow) at:

http://www.tomandrodna.com/NSA/hieronymus_letter.htm

Your attention is particularly invited to the fourth and fifth paragraphs
that read:

"If the clock were turned back, and someone stood before the Board of
Adjustment proposing to invest more than a million dollars into a vacant
downtown building, bring a hundred or more customers a day into downtown 32
weeks out of the year, take up fewer parking spaces than any previous
occupant of that building, create 17 new full-time jobs, CONTRIBUTE OVER $2
MILLION ANNUALLY TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY [my emphasis], create new commercial
business space within the building, and provide a harmonious use entirely
consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, we trust the board would have found
that such a use was beneficial to the community.

It is five years later - that someone is New Saint Andrews College - and
that is exactly what we have done."

However, Comb-Over, if you are struggling with your ability to read the
English language, perhaps you would like NSA President Roy Atwood to read it
to you (as he did at the BOA meeting):

http://www.tomandrodna.com/NSA/Atwood_Quote.mp3

Just setting the record straight, C-O.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Just Another Intolerista Liberal Elitista Diversity-Cleansing
Religion-Persecuting Wacko Nutjob Loose in the Palouse Doing What Comes
Natural


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