to local activist Robert Dean: see FULL CONTENT of letter in previous post today on this topic.
C3G2 folks need to ship up, and quit talking trash about allies that wanna help them in their crusade for good, open, and honest government. Let alone QUIT these sorts of "pot calling kettle black" nasty maneuvers.
Bryan, waiting on your reply. Be aware whatever you say will be part of public record.
BTW, Robert - sounds like you and Bryan have a personal history of malcontent that goes way back. I think y'all need to powwow and wash your hands of eachother at this point after a round of amends.
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Bryan Wray owns a coffee shop Downtown. That's the 500 people he serves each day and none of them know who I am. If any of them are reading this let me introduce myself.
ReplyDeleteI am the person who first alerted the Downtown merchants that the City of Vancouver had no intention of protecting them from "possibly severe" impacts of 6.3 years of construction downtown. I met with Don Wagner, Jeanne Harris, Matt Ransom, Larry Smith, Jim Moeller and eventually with several downtown business owners to help mobilize them to start asking questions of their own. The website Stop CRC grew out of those meetings.
Bryan Wray's response? He was hoping to sell coffee for 6.3 years to the out of town construction workers.
I am also the person who first noticed that the City of Vancouver approved the Locally Preferred Alternative contingent on provisions in Resolution M3663 calling for "financial aid" to downtown merchants during an unknown construction period - thought to be at least 5 years.
I asked City Transportation Director, Thayer Rorabaugh, if that was being studied and budgeted for. Ummm, well, sort of. The answer was really no.
I asked Tim Leavitt and Jack Burkman and Leavitt said something to the effect, "Look, Robert, you and I both know that people and businesses get hurt during any large construction project." Yes, tell that to the downtown merchants.
He didn't; not ever in any of his State of the City speeches or anywhere else.
I did though. I also told David Madore, Tom Mielke, Ann Rivers, Paul Harris, Jeanne Stewart, Bill Turlay, and Jaime Herrera. They listened. I also told Steve Stuart but he didn't listen.