One suspects that the appropriate term would involve a reference to organic fertilizer of the bovine variety...what better material for helping astroturf grow, after all!
-----Original Message----- From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: univcity <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:45 pm Subject: Re: [UC] Community request for UCD marketing magic Wilma de Soto wrote: >>I should think THEY should have been the major >>opposition to the proposed >>hotel project and NOT Karen Allen or Glenn Moyer. Glenn Moyer wrote: > Wilma, > > Yes indeed, that is a very excellent point! Check > this out. This was in the UC Review: > > "'I wanted to get it de-listed to have greater > choices,' explained Lussenhop of his motion to rescind > designation. 'But once I realized the sentiment of > the historical committee and neighborhood, I said > fine...'" > > Either Mr. Lussenhop is doing some serious > astroturfing or this "neighborhood" character was > involved since before the de-listing request which was > turned down on July 13! > > Then in the last paragraph of the article: > > "In a letter. committee chair Barry Grossbach stated > that, while the committee has met with Lussenhop, > 'there is no zoning application on file for this > property'" > > I wonder if Barry knows who this character, > "neighborhood," is. Barry is the only known person to > have met with Lussenhop based on the news report. > > I just wonder when exactly did SHCA and UCHS first > learn about this hotel plan? They would have > certainly, immediately, let the larger real > neighborhood know; had they known Lussenhop was asking > to get permission back before July 13, which would > have permitted demolition? Am I not correct about > this?????? hmmm... there ought to be a word for pre-astroturfing -- a word that would convey the process whereby a neighborhood is depicted as having agreed about something before that neighborhood has actually even heard about it... retroturfing? pre-seedural? cytoblasting? premature endosperming? ??? .................. UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN [aka laserbeam®] [aka ray] SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES. "It is very clear on this listserve who these people are. Ray has admitted being connected to this forger." -- Tony West "Ray's falsehoods are more sophisticated, more believable" -- Tony West ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com
