In a message dated 12/27/2008 12:47:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
I don't yet have the words to properly express the depth of my disappointment and sense of betrayal that some SHCA Community Leaders are willing to cede the character of the neighborhood, near the Trolley Portal, while guaranteeing inconvenience and risking catastrophe. What an elegant bit of damnation by faint praise. Look at the people on the SHCA Board of Directors and think about the shameful way the organization's most recent election was held. The "SHCA Community Leaders" are, by and large, young newcomers who haven't a clue about the sensitivities of the folks who built the neighborhood by investing their lives in it while the flight to the suburbs was at its zenith. We certainly need youth and new ideas, but not "leadership" from people who don't understand but do disregard the people they're supposed to be "leading." And, much as I hesitate to say it because it may sound like a rebuke to earnest and well-meaning people, many of the more long-standing members of the SHCA Board are there because the anointed know they'll either keep silent about things they don't like, or the deck has been stacked so if they speak up, it's ineffective (witness, for the latter, the impact or lack thereof of the two resignations over the decision to take a no-position position on the Campus Inn -- such that newcomer-puppet-president Ed Halligan could get away with the outright lie to the Historical Commission that SHCA was evenly split because the community was evenly split). Always at your service and ready for a diatribe -- er, dialog. Al Krigman **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)
