This past weekend I suggested City Pages let Meleah Maynard go for the reporting she had been doing on Heritage Park.
I was wrong. Mr.Brauer challenged me publicly and accused me of smearing City Pages. Again I plead guilty. The fact is that City Pages encouraged the reporting on Heritage Park by Meleah Maynard and though it is true she is no longer in their employ I think it would be safe to say they miss the historical knowledge she brought to the subject. Mr. Brauer asked how I would feel if I were smeared. I wrote to him off-line that I knew all too well the feeling of a smear. You do not go through two divorces and struggle with manic depression for thirty years and not engender some whispered untruths. This past summer a list member wrote me off-list and suggested I see a psychiatrist to treat my clinical depression. Prozac worked wonders for him he told me. As happy as I was for him, I told him in no uncertain terms that he was way out of line. I think challenging a person's words or ideas as Mr. Brauer did with me is acceptable. To speak of one's physical characteristics whether it be hearing ability or brain illness is legitimate if that person is a candidate for office and those are capacities one thinks are important as long as it is done respectfully in a public setting. To do otherwise is either misdirected concern at best or malicious gossip at worst. To run to the teacher is not much better in my book. If someone should think I'm disruptive or behaving poorly on this list that is why we have a List Manager. He does a good job. Or one can make liberal use of the delete key. I'm certain many on this list do so already when my name scrolls across the screen. Tim Connolly Downtown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
