{"id":1813,"date":"2018-04-13T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truthinaddison.com\/?page_id=1813"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:03:18","slug":"1813-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/truthinaddison.com\/?page_id=1813","title":{"rendered":"Inventing Evidence: Don\u2019t Be Fooled By Negative Spinners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inventing Evidence:<\/strong>
\nDon\u2019t Be Fooled By Negative Spinners<\/strong>
\nBy Susan M. Halpern<\/strong>
\nFormer Addison Councilmember (1992-1999)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The negative spinners were in attendance at the Mayor\u2019s April coffee. Several asked questions, making the unfortunate choice to do so in a hostile, accusatory manner.\u00a0 One (who is again running for council after being defeated last May) refused to even acknowledge Mayor Joe Chow by name, despite clearly knowing the Mayor\u2019s name and title. This candidate instead referred to Mayor Chow as \u201cthe man in the blue suit.\u201d\u00a0 How disrespectful and so unnecessary.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the really incredible thing. After staging all this hostility and disrespect, the captive facts-don\u2019t-matter blog claimed that \u201cmajor dissension\u201d had \u201cerupted\u201d at the Mayor\u2019s coffee.\u00a0 How utterly absurd.\u00a0 These folks are rude to the mayor, they stage what was clearly a pre-scripted spectacle, and then cite their own behavior as evidence of dissent in Addison.\u00a0 It\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The key to it all is the unspoken premise of their claims: That what occurred was actually spontaneous. And that is clearly untrue.<\/p>\n

But then, it\u2019s not the first time the negative spinners have pulled this trick.\u00a0 These are the same folks who brought us the supposedly \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter from the east coast politico who was portrayed as a stranger.\u00a0 All of which implied that the reader should ascribe enhanced significance to his \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter which, of course, ever-so-conveniently took up the cause of the negative spinners.<\/p>\n

Except that it was all a lie. I exposed the truth in my 2016, three-part \u201cI Smell A Rat\u201d series.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. East Coast was actually Mr. Local.\u00a0 He and I had a common link on LinkedIn: none other than a council candidate who was supported by the negative spinners.\u00a0 And then, lo and behold, Mr. Local turned up yet again in the 2017 election, this time as a paid political consultant to the losing mayoral candidate.\u00a0 Who, of course, was supported by the negative spinners.\u00a0 All of which confirmed that the supposedly \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter from Mr. Local was just another ruse designed to mislead Addison voters.<\/p>\n

The staged hostility that occurred at the Mayor\u2019s coffee is more of the same. It is an utter fiction that has no probative value whatsoever.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be fooled.\u00a0 And, by the way, expect these same folks to bring their hostile tactics to the upcoming Town Meeting.\u00a0 I predict that subjects will include the creek issue that was settled until the ex-mayor stepped in and tanked the settlement, and the wind turbine lawsuit that has (finally) been settled.\u00a0 They\u2019ll do the same thing, asking questions in an antagonistic and accusatory way.\u00a0 And then they\u2019ll publish another blog falsely claiming that \u201cdissension erupted\u201d at the Town Hall meeting.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t fall for it, Addison. Ignore these tactics.\u00a0 Help Addison to keep moving forward so that we can restore Addison to the true Addison Way.<\/p>\n

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