[Peace] URBANA MAYOR TORPEDOES DN!/UPTV DECISION

[Ricky Baldwin]

This is outrageous!  Satterthwaite needs a flood of
phone calls from Urbana residents to put him back
under his rock!

--- Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Well, I guess I found out where the resistance was.
> 
> I attended the UPTV commission meeting today and
> presented the petition with
> over 550 signatures on it. The petition helped a
> lot.
> 
> However, Urbana mayor Todd Satterthwaite also
> personally attended and voiced
> opposition to UPTV commission approval for acquiring
> FSTV and broadcasting
> Democracy Now!
> 
> Now he didn't come right out and say "I'm against
> this" (though he might as
> well have), but he used specious arguments to
> dissuade the commission from
> voting on a motion in favor. One commission member,
> Kevin Maxson, took up
> the mayor's reasoning and the commission ultimately
> decided further study
> was in order and the issue was put off until the
> next UPTV Commission
> meeting, which is two months away (September 13th).
> 
> If the mayor had not voiced opposition, I'm
> convinced the commission would
> have voted in favor of DN! and FSTV for UPTV today.
> 
> A tentative motion to go ahead with DN! on UPTV was
> put forth (by commission
> member Pete Resnick) and I heard a majority of the
> commission vote in favor,
> but then the motion fizzled after further arguments
> by Kevin Maxson and the
> mayor.
> 
> Most of the meeting was recorded (I'm kicking myself
> now for not recording
> the whole thing myself - it got really interesting
> at the end after the
> recording stopped).
> 
> There is a LOT more to tell on this.
> 
> Fear not, the fight is not over (it has only begun).
> I'm confident this
> effort will prevail, but I will need lots of help.
> 
> Right now, I have to put together today's Courier on
> WEFT, but you'll hear
> much more from me on this later.
> 
> R
> 
> 
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