[Vision2020] Moscow's Anti-Business Mean Green Committee Machine

[Tom Hansen]

Donovan Arnold iterates:

"So you are saying that legislation that passes with a close vote, like
the abolition of slavery is bad law, and laws that pass with near
legislative unanimity are good laws, like the one to go to war with Iraq?"

No, Mr. Arnold.  What I am saying is (now read this slowly) . . .

Apparently not one of our council members found anything wrong with it,
otherwise there would have been at least one "no" vote.

Close votes, like 4-2 and 3-3 (where the mayor breaks the tie), possess
some debatable substance.

Do you understand now?

Tom Hansen
Spokane, Washington



On Sun, February 6, 2011 10:49 am, Donovan Arnold wrote:
>
> "There must be something beneficial in it . . . what with a unanimous vote
> and all, dontcha think?"--Tom Hansen
> Â 
> So you are saying that legislation that passes with a close vote, like the
> abolition of slavery is bad law, and laws that pass with near
> legislative unanimity are good laws, like the one to go to war with Iraq?
> Â 
> A law is good or bad based on the merits of its outcomes and
> justifications, not the number of yeas and nays cast, dontcha think?
> Â 
> BTW, how do you have a bike rack sheltered and well lit? Indoor bike rack
> lighting?
> Â 
> Donovan Arnold
>
>
> --- On Sun, 2/6/11, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
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> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow's Anti-Business Mean Green Committee
> Machine
> To: "Gary Crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>, "Representative Tom Trail"
> <ttrail at house.idaho.gov>, "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>,
> "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>, dcarscallen at ci.moscow.id.us,
> tbrown at ci.moscow.id.us, vision2020 at moscow.com, wmsteed at ci.moscow.id.us,
> sscott at ci.moscow.id.us, nchaney at ci.moscow.id.us, wkrauss at ci.moscow.id.us,
> tlamar at ci.moscow.id.us
> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 10:02 AM
>
>
> Here is a little light reading for you, Mr. Crabtree.
>
> Proposed Amendment of Title 4, Chapter 6, Section 5 of Moscow City Code
> Providing for the Requirement of Bicycle Parking for Commercial and
> Multi-Family Residential Development
>
> http://www.moscowcares.com/011811_06_BikeParking.pdf
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> And, since you have, so demandingly, expressed your opinion against this
> proposed amendment, why weren't you at the . . .
>
> Public Hearing
>
> http://www.moscowcares.com/011811_06_BikeParking.htm
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>
> FYI, this proposed amendment passed the city council with a vote of 5-0 (1
> absent).
>
> There must be something beneficial in it . . . what with a unanimous vote
> and all, dontcha think?
>
> If interested, I have extracted some rather poignant portions of the
> proposed amendment that (pretty much) respond to your concerns.
>
> Catcha on the flip-flop, Moscow,
>
> Tom Hansen
> Spokane, Washington
>
> “I don’t believe that my great-grandfather crossed four thousand miles
> of
> Atlantic Ocean only to see this country overrun by immigrants.”
>
> - Stephen Colbert
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