Re: [UC] Apparently, some people haven't heard that Wendell Lewis is leaving

[Glenn moyer]

#5 Other Penn wants to dump Wendell Lewis in preperation for another push to establish Penn taxation authority, BID.  They want a new perky face to appeal to the homeowner gangs.  The recession and budget cuts create the perfect circumstances to use fear mongering upon selfish and unprincipled "anointed" leaders.  (Penn appeals to the civic gangs  for BID support by promising that homeowners won't be taxed initially, only greedy landlords.) Wendell Lewis's gag order certainly has him leaving under mysterious circumstances while voicing support for BID. After this usual delay when Penn temporarily backs off its powerplay, we should expect that the BID will be portrayed as enormously popular.  The minimum objection period and minimum public disclosure will be attempted since Wendell Lewis has already "educated" the neighborhood about the district consumers dependence on UCD and BID. Paul Levy explained that Penn has been planning to tax us with BID since the mid '90s.  They never stopped plotting. I suspect that they have manipulated the housing unit numbers in such a manner that they have the needed numbers under one calculation method allowed under the state law.  Last time, they tried to push BID between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  The tming suggests a similar push for Thanksgiving of '09 with some perky new face promoting it.. A thoughtful post on the commoner's list, Glenn       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 3, 2008 3:49 PM To: UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: [UC] Apparently, some people haven't heard that Wendell Lewis is leaving Apparently, some people in the area have not heard that Wendell Lewis is leaving UCD (and the neighborhood) when the current term of his contract expires in June 2009. Do you think: He was worried that the Campus Inn would go through and lower the value of his house even more than the recession, so he thought he'd better get out while the getting was still good. The string pullers at Penn finally realized that all the non-core activities at UCD were not only wastes of money but among the chief reasons why the organization is so unpopular and why the NID attempt failed so badly, so they decided to rebuild the organization in a "leaner, meaner" form with a real operations guy to manage "clean and safe" cost-effectively instead of an empire builder to install expensive flags on poles along Baltimore Avenue. Wendell really wants to move back to New York and live in his condo, like he was quoted as saying in The UCReview, so his children could get the benefit of a better private school than he could find in Philadelphia. He can make more money as a consultant (maybe team up with Omar Blaik, who undoubtedly has more work than he can handle teaching other urban universities all about the Penn Model... whether as something to follow or something to avoid is not known). Other. All of the above.   Al Krigman reminding you that you read it first (or maybe second), here, on the popu-list Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see .