The truth is as Mark put it: While the likes of Mark and many, many other *volunteer* advocates were working their butts off to turn the BFW into something real, as it is now, our every effort was trashed by this one individual now on the BFW board ballot. He spared no effort to undermine our *volunteer* efforts while he was being paid.
I'll give my own example (though as the ballot candidate's favorite lightning rod, I have many). As an urban geographer, I have long recognized the direct connection between bicycling and good planning. Hence, I wanted to work to make sure that bicycles were included in all planning efforts. Ok, so this seems like a no-brainer in the year aut 3. But it wasn't always so. The current candidate on the ballot denounced it as some sort of vast left-wing* Madison conspiracy and tried to halt any BFW efforts at engaging urban planning. If I had stayed silent through his attempts to keep us out of planning efforts -- statewide and local -- the great planning-oriented staff currently at BFW would never have been hired (let's see, 2 MS's in Urban & Regional Planning, 1 MS in Geography....). We can expect their work lives to be made miserable if he ever becomes one of their bosses.**
-Mike Barrett
*despite the fact that I am far from being a left winger, as Alex could attest!
**Nothing in this post should in any way be attributed to BFW staff. The ideas are entirely mine. Besides, they don't talk to me anymore anyway!
At 8:23 AM -0700 9/9/03, Steve Tudisco wrote:
Mike,
Thanks for your perspective on the situation.
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