The former finance director, Mr. Moir often shared his concerns about
projects other than a stadium being risky or not in the best interest of the
city, as have its residents. The council and mayor simply choose not to
listen to what they don't wish to hear. Why the stdium issue has been coined
a "debate" has always puzzled me. A debate infers discussion, give and take,
pros and cons. I've yet to see it.
J Burns, Cleveland
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: finance director, post hoc reasoning and lack of transparency
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:49:55 -0600
>
>Carol Becker:
> > Alleging a connection between the baseball stadium
> > and the hiring of a
> > Finance Officer just because they were written about in
> > the paper at about
> > the same time is simply ludicrous. In logic, this is
> > known as post hoc
> > reasoning (for the geeks out there).
>
>Tim Connolly:
> > what i object to is a lack of transparency and poor
> > dissemination of information. this is a systemic
> > problem that takes in media, government, political
> > parties and yes all of us.
>
>I think that if our zany elected officials were to say something like, "We
>know you all don't want a publicly funded stadium, but we're still pushing
>it because we think it's a good idea, and these are our reasons..." there
>wouldn't be such a tendency to draw the connections that Carol finds
>ludicrous. People are reduced to reading tea leaves because they are
>lacking the solid information required to draw more reasoned conclusions.
>
>Another bit of post hoc reasoning: The previous finance director, Mr.
>Moir, shared his concerns about the overuse of TIF with Doug Grow. A few
>months later, he was moving on to a new job. Illogical person that I am, I
>can't help but seeing a connection between these two events.
>
>Rosalind Nelson
>Bancroft
>
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