[Peace] Milton Otto & the Resolution

Jamie McGowan jmcgowan at uiuc.edu
Fri Jan 31 10:59:39 CST 2003


I don't know if you live in his ward, Kimberlie, but if not, it might be 
worthwhile finding someone from his ward to address his comments/concerns, 
too.
-Jamie

At 06:11 PM 1/30/2003 -0600, Kranich, Kimberlie wrote:
>FYI,
>
>I will be speaking on Monday and I will address Mr. Otto directly from the
>public comment chair! I have been crafting my comments in my head to him
>since last Monday.
>
>Kimberlie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: paul michael king [mailto:pmking at students.uiuc.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:06 PM
>To: AWARE Peace
>Subject: [Peace] Milton Otto & the Resolution
>
>
>
>Milton's remark in justifying his vote against the Urbana council's
>resolution against war seems to me a bit misinformed. He stated that he
>was unwilling to endorse a blanket statement that obviously does not
>reflect everyone in the community since there are those who do not
>support this resolution.
>
>I wholeheartedly agree with his sentiment; however, I'm not sure they are
>appropriate to his position. This strategy is known as *consensus*. I may
>be wrong, but isn't the city council a *democratic* body?
>
>Furthermore, why does he think that Al Gore lost the election?
>
>Will somebody please just supply some facts to this man? These are not
>just matters of opinion. He seems to have good intentions. Maybe with the
>correct information he can make better decisions in the future.
>
>There, I feel better now! I don't intend to be mean, but I needed to get
>that off my chest =)
>
>..::Paul King
>
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>
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