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Re: Highway 95 public meetings
Hi Ken: Thank you for the update and the ho ho hum as usual scenario. It is
enought to make you barf isn't it. I am up for a demonstration. It is a
great way to get rid of stress. They got the job
done in Seattle didn't they. What ever it take to wake em up!
Wolfgang M. Schwartzenweintruab
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Medlin" <dev-plan@moscow.com>
To: "SMW Scripter [AKA MoscowSam]" <MoscowSam@moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision
2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: Highway 95 public meetings
> >If it is a "hearing" conducted like recent ones by ID DOT,
> My own experience and what I've read in research reports over many years
> says: these fed. and state hearing exercises are pretty much eyewash for
> the critical public which is usually the voting public to get its "say"
> in the process. The hearing records have no legal status or political
> weight, unless of course they rise to the Seattle-WTO levels of
> disturbance, or the public excercises a boycott, etc. The only way, at
> this stage to get some influence over the process is to get lots of
> people out, to circulate petitions, etc. and/or to organize a citizens'
> lobby representing 100's of people, and submit demands in writing, thru
> the media, letters, etc. THEN, the politicians begin to listen because
> they realize that there are some votes out their they didn't count the
> last time around. I've been to so many hearings as an interested citizen,
> only to walk away not knowing what impact our presence made, and then to
> find out in the paper later that "everything went according to the
> planners' agemda, with much public participation." Amen.
>
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> William K. Medlin
> Dev-plan associates
> 930 Kenneth Street
> Moscow ID 83843
> 208/892-0148
> dev-plan@moscow.com
>
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