Failure To Grasp???

This is an ad I researched and designed for WPEG in early 2009. Several people in WPEG (and out)
helped edit it and get it  placed as a half page ad in the WDT.  We thought the critical wind conflicts of interest should be very publicly revealed so people could see what was going on and just  how badly our town govt was conflicted on the wind issue and how that was tearing apart the community.

It was carefully researched mostly from the town's own records..

Of course pro wind had a fit, and  former pro wind town supervisor Rienbeck went ballistic, even though he didn't have a conflict nor was he mentioned.  Pro wind never really challenged the information.  They couldn't because it was all true.  The only objection  I remember to the specific info was somebody said we didn't know what we were talking about because we had spelled Jeri Mason's name with two r's.

But wait...I almost forgot, there actually were two other significant objections.  And those two people asked me what the hell did I think I was doing and accomplishing?  Was I just trying to piss people off?  They thought it would piss off Rienbeck and pro wind. 

Now keep in mind since then this ad has been posted a number of times on the other CV blogs to show the conflicts that existed.

So who objected????

Current CV Councilman Clif Schneider ... and current CV Deputy Supervisor Richard Macsherry.

I had some real heated emails and discussions over this ad with them.  At this critical point they were far more interested in appeasing Rienbeck than facing the obvious truth.

What was it they failed to grasp then about how the conflicts of interest  had been tearing our town apart for 4 long years, and was the central issue to all our CV industrial wind nightmare????

And later Schneider would run for council on  mostly an ethics platform against some of the very people in this ad as the blogs that supported him would repost this ad. Go figure.   I guess it fit his agenda better then!  Actually the ad was ahead of its time.

But the important question today since these two men are still in critical positions in our gov is what kind of thinking process put Schneider and Macsherry so far off the mark on this issue when it was ripping our community apart in critical 2009 and a real no brainer to see what was happening?

This ad was a WPEG sanctioned ad which included Hirschey the head of WPEG then.  This would have put Schneider and Macsherry thinking at direct odds with WPEG and Hirschey.

They were working on a wind law with Rienbeck and I guess they thought a good compromise was in the works.

That is how a fixation on compromise can distort your reality.  And now these two men and the Hirschey govt are appeasing the Art. X system, saying it is fair and even handed as it removed our home rule.

Once again with a lot more riding on it this time and Art. X leaving us twisting in the wind so BP can have more time to sell their project and stay within the Art. X process...is there something these men fail to grasp????