[Peace] UPDATE: URBANA MAYOR TORPEDOES DN!/UPTV DECISION

[Randall Cotton]

I've posted a "first-pass" accounting of how things unfolded at the UPTV
Commission meeting today, but I posted to the "peace-discuss" list (instead
of this list, "peace", which is meant strictly for "big" announcements).

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R



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>
To: <peace at lists.cu.groogroo.com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: [Peace] URBANA MAYOR TORPEDOES DN!/UPTV DECISION


: 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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