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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
No, I don't think it would have been a big waste of time in her saying it, but I don't think people would have been listening. That's what makes it a waste of time.
I've seen it with other issues in this city (Calatrava bridge for one), where people have had misconceptions, then public officials have responded to those misconceptions, but the public goes on having their misconeptions. And the media (esp the Sun) feeds those misconceptions.
What I'm saying is that if the public officials tried to make EVERYONE understand, they wouldn't have any time for anything else.
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But in this case I can't see any evidence for Druh even trying to make her case for a festival.
The bridge, yes, most people are still against it becasue of the price tag, but I've seen an enormous ammount of information about why they are spending that money on this bridge. Sure people aren't listening, but the information is there.
That's not the case here, I've yet to see anything where Druh mentions any sort of festival in the initial reasoning for closing down Memorial.
So does that mean she decided, "To hell with everyone, they aren't going to listen so I'm not gonna tell them what I'm up to"
If that's the case then that is even worse than her being stupid. That is her being completely non-transparent.
Now I've made my thoughts know pretty clearly in more than one debate with Tower, that I don't like people who jump to the sinister motives boat when the GIANT SHIP OF STUPIDITY is still firmly tied to the dock.
So the options are
1) Druh didn't have a plan, and just wanted to close the street to be "Progressive"
2) Druh knew about the Festival, but for some reason forgot to mention it when being highly critcised for just wanting to close a road
3) Druh deliberately didn't tell anyone about the festival for some unknown reason
4) Druh did mention it, but no one here has found that quote yet
Of those 4 choices only 1 can really be proven and that is #4, and if it is, super I'll take it all back, and just fall back to Druh doing a piss poor job of promoting her festival.
Of the other three which is more likely. That she intentionlly didn't mention it, that she forgot to mention the one thing that would keep her from being criticized, or that this is another case of a council member doing something withouth first thinking it through 100%?
I know which way I'm leaning.