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Comments
Any friends among public servants that have an agenda more important than my Constitutional Rights?
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Considering all the conflict of interest from self serving public servants within the Boardman River Dams Committee constantly reminding the few opposing them that the beauty of the process is, it’s ok for a self serving agenda driven group of public servants to Lie, Misinform and Mislead the public they are suppose to be serving and knowingly abuse their job titles and authority to do so. Sure a good public servant would much rather consider it, a timely and clever misdirection of the populous considered to be for the greater good. BUT !!!
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After witnessing the clans attack on Mr. Peterson at the last BRDC meeting any questions about the clans agenda have now been answered. His offer was honest and genuine, trying to help the community, offering a share of the revenue from power generation back to the County. The clans claim to be neutral while force feeding us their opinion, preaching their agenda and offering bias studies, untruths, compromised conclusions and rubber stamping surveys to back up thier clams. This is unacceptable business practice and would be shot down at a glance in the private sector.
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At every meeting you can hear these words “How can we get the public more involved” yet someone comes forward under the guidelines within the committees own parameters to form a new sub committee, and you ignore your very own rules and regulations pushing them away. The very public told to get involved, told to volunteer, told “If you don’t like something then join a committee” Yet someone comes forward volunteering their expertise and they are pushed away with Bias . Told no other team members are needed. The BRDC has rejected with Bias formal public attempts for additional team members and/or a new sub committee. Understanding a newly formed sub committee to inform anyone contrary to the clans agenda would be undermining their very own existence it is no wonder the clan acted like they have.
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To all you people that know so much about the Boardman River, offering fabricating studies. To all you people praying on confabulated technicalities, To all you people knowingly offering compromised studies and rubber stamping data previously compiled for completely different surveys, To all you people spreading half truths and misleading the public, To those wearing blinders or turning your heads, looking away from the atrocities regarding the fishery, the wildlife, the public trust, the public riparian rights, private riparian rights, private property rights, CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. There is only one thing left to say. I hope the truth is exposed. I hope the Commissioners of Grand Traverse County see through the smoke screen of confabulated technicalities half truths and lies and really do something good for the community
Either there are a lot of letters being censored and not allowed on this blog or the comunication and out reach team could comunicate and out reach a little more.
Re: Blog rules
This was an agenda item at the last meeting and while there wasn’t much discussion from the BRDC, I wanted to reiterate the point that these terms of behaviour are reasonable and should not only be applied to the blog, they should also be part of the whole process, where applicable. One of the strengths of this process is building transparent, fact-based, civil discourse around a controversial topic. If we can provide a framework for ourselves and others to model this, it will strengthen our work and the work of others.
Becky Ewing
I was expecting to see the last three letters I have written offering information as valuable the photos I have offered telling a story as to what has happened and is happening with different aspects of your process. I’m only assuming at this point these letters have not made it through your censorship process may I ask who is censoring this blog? Hopefully not the same people on the radio t.v. or any brdc committee or I’m afraid there would be a certian conflict of interest here concerning Plubic information durring this very public process.... Are we now censoring a public process to inform the public of the process?
Wow I’m happy to be the first comment about that............
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