[Vision2020] Courtney's Numbers

[Art Deco]

Good suggestion Sue.  However, based on the DN's failure to use facts in 
some of their past editorials, especially those written by Murf on NSA, etc, 
I doubt the DN really cares that much.

W.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>; <thansen at moscow.com>; 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Courtney's Numbers


>I would suggest someone--Tom, maybe, call the DN and ask Murf to accept a
> refutation based on this information.  Murf is quite willing when one has 
> a
> response to chicanery already printed, even when the deadline has passed.
> He did that for us last year so we could respond to the garbage that
> appeared right before Shirley's re-election.
>
> Sue
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> To: <thansen at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Courtney's Numbers
>
>
>> Tom, this is amazing.  It's one thing to hide behind stats and data
>> because
>> your real viewpoint is too odious for people to accept -- but to use them
>> with such carelessness, not knowing or not caring that they're out of
>> date,
>> is really disappointing.
>>
>> Even from Dale Courtney.  And I've regrettably set that bar pretty damned
>> low.
>>
>> The fact remains:  There isn't a levy rate, enrollment gain, test-score
>> result, graduation rate or anything else that would make Dale Courtney
>> support a public schools levy, and I appreciate the bravery you show 
>> here,
>> Tom, in exposing Dale's chicanery.
>>
>> keely
>>
>>
>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Courtney's Numbers
>> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:35:17 -0700
>>
>> Greetings Visionaires -
>>
>> Concerning this year's school levy . . .
>>
>> I have just glanced over several of Dale Courtney's on-line files
>> concerning
>> his argument against the 2007 school levy located at:
>>
>> http://MoscowLevy.com/March2007.htm
>>
>> and compared them to the on-line files concerning his argument against 
>> the
>> 2005 school levy located at:
>>
>> http://MoscowLevy.com
>>
>> I know that this is the site he used to argue against the 2005 levy, 
>> since
>> it clearly states at the top of the page:
>>
>> "Here is a resource to which you can turn for information about the 
>> Moscow
>> School District levy on 26 April 2005."
>>
>> I was interested in finding results of recent research that he may have
>> conducted.
>>
>> Primarily I reviewed the files dealing with "Administrative Bloat".  He
>> not
>> only is using the same numbers from 2005.  He is using the same files.
>> The
>> most recent data in the files that I reviewed was for 2004/2005.
>>
>> He didn't event bother copying, renaming, and pasting the files into a
>> 2007
>> directory.  The links within his 2007 levy web pages are the very same,
>> identical links found in his 2005 levy web pages.
>>
>> His property tax information, located at:
>>
>> http://moscowlevy.com/waste.htm
>>
>> is almost five years old.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Stay tuned.  More to come.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>>
>>
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