Comments on: With Sack's Help, City Keeps Lying About Burlingate http://www.aspenpost.net/2008/07/19/with-sacks-help-city-keeps-lying-about-burlingate/ Think Global : Post Local Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Marilyn Marks http://www.aspenpost.net/2008/07/19/with-sacks-help-city-keeps-lying-about-burlingate/#comment-55023 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:32:32 +0000 http://www.aspenpost.net/2008/07/19/with-sacks-help-city-keeps-lying-about-burlingate/#comment-55023 Con Man, Thanks for the nice comments. And thanks for taking an active role in the dialogue. The dialogue also needs the voices of many more citizens so that our elected leaders will get the message. It is too easy for most of us to let someone else be the spokesman. When that happens, the potential to effect change is greatly reduced. I hope that you can use your show to encourage people to write the City Council with their concerns. Yes, after my considerable nagging of the city staff, the Aspen Daily News did print a story on Saturday attempting to correct the City ad which purportedly attempted to correct a city-fabricated rumor. Problem was that they STILL got it wrong. The City understated the cost by $1.3 million in their correction story. I went back to nagging, and on Sunday, if you read the fine print, the Daily News corrected the correction of the correction. That was the third stab at getting the description of $58.5 million of spending correct. I predict a fourth will be required as well. The City is completely reckless with the information they release to the public. We shouldn’t tolerate it. But until more people take a stand, we are reinforcing bad behavior by our city officials. Marilyn Marks Con Man,
Thanks for the nice comments. And thanks for taking an active role in the dialogue. The dialogue also needs the voices of many more citizens so that our elected leaders will get the message. It is too easy for most of us to let someone else be the spokesman. When that happens, the potential to effect change is greatly reduced. I hope that you can use your show to encourage people to write the City Council with their concerns.

Yes, after my considerable nagging of the city staff, the Aspen Daily News did print a story on Saturday attempting to correct the City ad which purportedly attempted to correct a city-fabricated rumor. Problem was that they STILL got it wrong. The City understated the cost by $1.3 million in their correction story. I went back to nagging, and on Sunday, if you read the fine print, the Daily News corrected the correction of the correction. That was the third stab at getting the description of $58.5 million of spending correct. I predict a fourth will be required as well.

The City is completely reckless with the information they release to the public. We shouldn’t tolerate it. But until more people take a stand, we are reinforcing bad behavior by our city officials.

Marilyn Marks

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