[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: defend our public nursing home

[David Green]

Fred Giertz is an employee of the U of I, Institute of Government and Public Affairs. He not only has used this position on the public payroll to become an extremely wealthy man, he now uses it to call for the privatization of a vital public institution. The IGPA is in fact an extremely conservative institution, for example employing Jim Edgar, who last week endorsed Guiliani for president. In the IGPA newsletter that is e-mailed weekly to its employees (including me), this was presented in terms of "IGPA in the news," as if there's no problem with Edgar in his official capacity endorsing anyone, no less a sleazeball like R.G. This is all done under the cover of being technocrats and "elder statesmen" (with apologies to Belden).
   
  DG

Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  
  
  Begin forwarded message:

    From: Belden Fields <abfjem at yahoo.com>
  Date: December 3, 2007 7:00:03 PM CST
  To: a-fields at uiuc.edu
  Subject: Fwd: defend our public nursing home
  

  

  --- Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  

    CC: abfjem at yahoo.com
  From: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
  Subject: defend our public nursing home
  Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:25:52 -0600
  To: SFcore
  

  Dear SFers and Friends,
  

  In yesterday's (Sunday) News-Gazette, Fred Giertz
  had a guest  
  commentary calling for the total privatization of
  the county nursing  
  home.  The News-Gazette not only put it on the first
  page, but gave  
  it the top position on that page in the Commentary
  Section, a  
  commentary by the paper itself.  The is an
  opportunity for us to  
  defend this precious public institution by sending
  lots of letters to  
  the paper countering this call to privatize the
  nursing home.  Please  
  write letters to the editor.
  

  Belden Fields
  

  

  

  

  

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