Mr. Keady, your rhetorical game is clear.
Your entire post is personalizing about you and me.
You speak in laudatory terms about yourself and malign me.
The issue, however, is again completely ignored.
Your Apostles can yell Bitch Slap and Oh Snap all they wish, but
neither of them will address the issue either.
I judge you on positions you take. I have supported some of those
positions at times, and quite publicly. But your ledger is one sided.
You'll never credit the times I've supported you, and you will
personalize against me when I disagree with a policy.
So I'll state the issue again, on the sliver of hope that you or one
of your Apostles will dare address it:
I understand that you object to Columbus Day and Kwanzaa on the basis
that you think the City should not expend public resources on either.
My disagreement with you aside, at least you are consistent.
My complaint about you is this:
You put your lengthy public stance on the record each year against
Columbus Day, which is reported in the paper, on the basis that
Columbus did bad things, and you insist that information should be
taught that day.
You do not put a lengthy public stance against Kwanzaa on the record.
You do not insist insist that as people celebrate that week, they
should teach about the disgusting crimes of Ron Karenga - Kwanzaa's
founder.
It is on that ISSUE that you suffer hypocrisy. The different
treatment is about votes, no matter how much you deny it.
I take it I don't have to respond to the probing, thoughtful analysis
of the issue provided by your Apostles in the form of Bitch Slap and
Oh Snap.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jwkeady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mr. Deseno:
>
> You wrote:
>
> "The reason is you fear no loss of votes over Columbus, so you let
> your bigotry toward that cultural identification fly in public. You
> fear loss of votes over Kwanzaa, so you make your objection to
> Kwanzaa only in the proverbial smokey back room."
>
> While you may make political decisions based on vote calculations and
> encourage those you support to do the same, I do not. I have always
> and will continue to do my homework on an issue, ask relevant
> questions regarding that issue, then vote my conscience. If you want
> someone who changes his mind based on which way the political wind is
> blowing and how it might impact votes, I am not your guy. If you
> want someone like that, you may want to continue to support your
> party's most recent Presidential candidate.
>
> It is clear that more than once in my tenure on City Council I have
> upset some of my most strident supporters for decisions I have made
> from the dais. I was not elected to make sure that I keep everyone
> happy. I was elected to try and execute the platform on which I ran,
> to be a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars, and to uphold the
> laws of our nation, our state and our city, and this what I have done
> to the best of my abilities.
>
> Mr. Deseno, you have never, nor do I imagine you will ever, be a
> supporter of mine. And believe me, I do not mind that as I find your
> politics short-sighted and self-serving, your tactics intellectually
> barbaric, and your demeanor two-faced at best.
>
> Having said that, I hope you enjoy the rest of the day.
>
> Peace, Councilman Jim Keady
>
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