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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:00:41 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Steve Lamont <spl () ncmir ucsd edu> Date: October 16, 2004 3:37:13 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Fiber-Optic Illusion
Nonetheless, Tom Ammiano -- like his colleagues, loath to let a local constituent group go unpandered to -- took up the cause of Noe Valley Families, and the church and the cell phone companies canceled their antenna plan.
How awful. How perfectly dreadful that an elected official should "pander" to (GASP!) constituents -- the people who *voted* for him. What a bizarre concept! Doesn't this bozo know that he's supposed to pay *lip service* to constituent concern and then vote the way the lobbyists and corporate donors tell him to vote? Goodness gracious. If this heresy spreads, the next thing you know we might have state legislators and a Congress that actually responds to the will of the people instead of the will of big money and corporate interests. Gosh, if this kind of pandering runs *really* wild, we might even end up with an Executive Branch that represents normal working Americans instead of Halliburton, Bechtel, Lockheed-Martin, Enron (no, scratch that), Arthur Anderson (uh, no, scratch that, too), well, you get the idea. And then where would we be? Fortunately most cities and towns aren't run that way. Down here in Southern California our elected officials are so deeply in the pockets of the developers and business interests that they cough up lint balls. And that's the way business likes it. Even if the citizens don't. People make all sorts of noise about local control and devolution of authority from "faceless Washington bureaucrats and regulators" but when local people actually attempt to assert some of that control, then they become a "local constituent group [to be] pandered to". If the Noe Valley Families don't want cell phone transmitters in their community, even though they may be wrong in their reasoning, isn't that their right? spl ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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