>      Well, Werner, we've been friends for a long time now, and I
> always value your opinions.  Even while you are being persecuted 
(and
> I do not use that term lightly) by the good old boys who have run 
this
> town into the ground, you still hold your own ground and tell it 
like
> it is.  You demonstrate time and again why they didn't want you as
> City Historian and are using what amounts to fascistic tactics to 
run
> you out of here.  You've been more than a Historian, I believe; 
you've
> been a prophet.  To paraphrase the Good Book: "A prophet is never
> honored in his own time and place."  They're not interested in
> prophets, but only profits; and because the Sanders council is not
> listening to the former, it surely won't realize the latter.  This
> council has already lost the city millions in ratables, has 
squandered
>  tens of millions of dollars of land and buildings for a pittance, 
and
> now have nothing to show for it. (Even Esau got a bowl of mush at
> least when he gave up his inheritance.) You are the conscience, 
albeit
> a sometimes prickly one, that they are trying to ignore. And 
because
> deep down they know you are right, they despise you for it.  Thanks
> for standing your ground even though it has cost you so much in so
> many ways.
>                                       Frank D'Alessandro
>




 
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