[UC] More Important Poll

[PMUyehara]

     OK my friends, I've been enjoying the peace and quiet of late on the list.  Here's a poll question for you partisans:       WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR MORE DISCUSSION OF HISTORIC DISTRICT TYPE ISSUES ON THE LISTSERVE?

  My vote: NO. 
   I don't care if its Melani, BGA, Al, Brian or whoever.   This issue always brings out the worst of the dilettantes, generates enormous volume, venomous messages, and little real learning.

  So let's vote!  Yes yes yes, or no no no!

Paul
  On the quiet, beautiful, safe and quite historic 4600 block of Hazel.  Happy holidays.


In a message dated 12/29/04 6:30:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I'm too busy to expend the effort to prove the point - again. After all, it has already been documented by the Spruce Hill poll.
>
You've got a pretty poor standard of definition, then. That "poll"
wasn't so much a poll as a petition. It was distributed not to Spruce
Hill as a whole, but to the membership of the SHCA. It was accompanied
with two long documents: a statement from the SHCA supporting the
designation, and an FAQ compiled by the SHCA. This is a bit like going
into a Baptist church, and asking people if they supported President
Bush against the terrorists, or wanted John Kerry to weaken our
country's defenses. It was not a poll by any reasonable measure.

There was no indication that any substantive or principled opposition
even existed beyond Al Krigman. Melani's earlier note plays along this
cheap propaganda as well. Notice that, even though she's well aware that
Sharrieff Ali, Liz Campion and I are among the proposal's critics, she
only refers to Al Krigman. Why? Because then it's in the SHCA's interest
to portray this as a matter of decent preservationists versus one cranky
landlord. The fact that many of us disagree with Al, and have said so in
the past, is also one of those troublesome facts which the HD dvocates
simply cannot admit or acknowledge.

They never acknowledge that there are good, substantive reasons to be
critical of the proposal as well as the designation process itself. For
example, Melani and others denounce Councilwoman Blackwell's task force
as a bad-faith effort, rather than an attempt to evaluate a problematic
and un-democratic process.




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