That is a good question, Nick. <div><br></div><div>When I was Executive Director I did not set policy. I enacted the policy as set by the Board of Directors. </div><div><br></div><div>My personal feelings remain: Even if I don't like it, as long as they are legal they can represent themselves as they like. </div>
<div><br></div><div>However, as you intimate, there is a larger issue here. That is how this publicity effort reflects on Moscow in general, and its business community in particular.</div><div><br></div><div>With that said:</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I had received a complaint about it from a Chamber member, or thought there was a possible policy violation: I would have brought the issue/complaint to the Executive Committee and reviewed Chamber policy towards what was allowed (I don't recall specifics, but they do reserve the right to remove businesses from membership for some causes-I believe they removed a local nightclub due to a porn link, for instance). If we felt they were on the borderline, it would have been brought it up at a board meeting for discussion. I would have then followed their recommendation regarding a change request, expulsion, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It would be interesting to know if current Chamber leadership has discussed it. I rather doubt it.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:19 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickgier@roadrunner.com">nickgier@roadrunner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Good Morning Visionaries:<br>
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Below is my response to two recent letters about my column on NSA. The full version is attached.<br>
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I have a question for Darrell Keim. Since you agreed with Tom Hansen that this language is not fit for any season, would you, as past president of the Chamber of Commerce, change your mind about not asking downtown institutions to change anything on their websites, or in this, ask that the blurb be removed?<br>
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Just wondering.<br></blockquote></div><br></div>