I contacted the business and notified them that I would no longer be patronizing their busingess until they drop their objections to Sherman Avenue improvements and dropped their childish "ban" on accepting business from Alder Rummel.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Jym Dyer <[email protected]> wrote: > john roussos wrote: > >> the city council running rough-shod over the city has > >> to stop. There was no investigation into how this would > >> affect the city. > >> [... Deletia ...] > >> I only want accountability and transparency. > > =v= This is a familiar narrative: a claim that it's the work > of some politicians with no public process involved. Even if > there is public process (as in New York City and San Francisco, > where you can't sneeze without multiple public hearings), they > can just say there isn't any, over and over. Wherever there's > a sensationalist press (tabloids, Fox News, etc.) there will > be a platform for those shouting the loudest, truth be damned. > > =v= The next step is, of course, to deny that any "investigation > into how this would affect the city" is accurate. Opinion polls > showing support for bike lanes? Those are spun as orchestrated > by the big bad politicians. > > =v= Just a few months ago, somebody presented some videos of > the Tea Party focus on preventing transportation improvements > for anything other than the automobile, with their "Agenda 21" > conspiracy theory featuring prominently. This narrative flows > with that, of course. Claims of no public process and showing > up at meetings to shout people down (you know, public process?) > are standard Tea Party tactics, as well. > > =v= It's a well-rehearsed script at this point. > <_Jym_> > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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