We Really Need To Stop Corey

By: Barbara
Published On: 10/26/2007 10:01:35 PM

I love this--Stewart sends absentee voters a campaign letter saying he has raised proffers to offset negative effects of developers.  Hooray!!  Except, that it isn't true; it was voted down by the Board 5-3. When Sharon Pandak called him on it,  ("a repeated pattern by Corey of  misrepresenting the truth ") his response was classic: "It was a simple mistake". "Stewart said he was surprised that the resolution didn't pass and had drafted the letter in anticipation of a vote in his favor"... Stewart said Pandak's questioning of the statement in the letter amounted to nothing more than negative campaigning".  Is he nuts, or what?  Full story here  Mistake

Does anyone know the answer to this:  Are absentee ballot applications public information?  I really don't know the answer, but I didn't think so. 

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This is what Republicans DO: LIE (Dianne - 10/27/2007 7:56:23 AM)
This reminds me of yesterday's news about FEMA holding a phony press conference (I've provided the emphasis):

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized yesterday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.

"We are reviewing our press procedures and will make the changes necessary to ensure that all of our communications are straight forward and transparent," Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, said in a four-paragraph statement.

"We can and must do better, and apologize for this error in judgment," Johnson said, a view repeated yesterday by press officers at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, who criticized the event.

Just look at the FEMA response, when caught.  "Error in judgment"? What are the judgment ethics in lying to American citizenry?

"They are reviewing their press procedures"? Do their present procedures allow this sort of subterfuge of the truth?

It is shocking that an agency who has been so severely critized for its lack of competence would stage a phony news conference to once again try to fool the American people ("great job, Brownie!) I think this is worthy of a hearing....knowingly lying to American citizens over the public airwaves during an enormous physical disaster.

Wake up America. These people are living and breathing George Orwell's 1984. And we are the victims.  We just caught them in this lie....what else are they lying about?
 



Further on FEMA (Dianne - 10/27/2007 9:36:50 AM)
Actually here's the worst part of the FEMA story from that WaPo story: 
"It was absolutely a bad decision. I regret it happened. Certainly . . . I should have stopped it," said John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of external affairs. "I hope readers understand we're working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it."
....
Philbin's last scheduled day at FEMA was Thursday. He has been named as the new head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI spokeswoman Vanee Vines said.

So instead of being punished for not stopping the lies, Philbin has been promoted and will now lie to us about National Intelligence affairs.

So he knew what was being done and did not stop it.  Where is the outrage from the Democratic leaders.  Just give me a link, and I might feel better.

The bottomline:  They (FEMA) and he (Philbin) lie with arrogant impunity and there is no reprimand, no punishment, no firing....