{"id":1818,"date":"2018-04-17T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truthinaddison.com\/?page_id=1818"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:29:51","slug":"addisons-council-successfully-settles-the-wind-turbine-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/truthinaddison.com\/?page_id=1818","title":{"rendered":"Addison\u2019s Council Successfully Settles The Wind Turbine Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Addison\u2019s Council Successfully <\/strong>
\nSettles The Wind Turbine Lawsuit <\/strong>
\nBy Susan M. Halpern<\/strong>
\nFormer Addison Councilmember (1992-1999)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The terms of the wind turbine settlement have finally been announced, and they are favorable to Addison. The Town will essentially receive a refund, with the complete removal of the turbines and attendant repairs to the roof of the water tower.\u00a0 The staff did a great job describing the legal issue regarding recovery of attorney\u2019s fees, and the current council (which inherited the whole mess) did a great job salvaging the situation and negotiating a good settlement.\u00a0 Addison can finally to put the issue to rest.<\/p>\n

The negative spinners don\u2019t know what to do. They can\u2019t attack the settlement, because it\u2019s a good one.\u00a0 And, they\u2019ve lost their negative campaign issue.\u00a0 Out of sheer desperation, they have instead attacked me, falsely alleging that I was privy to the terms of the settlement before they were publicly announced.\u00a0 From that untrue premise, they incorrectly claim I was given information that was discussed in executive session.\u00a0 It is utter nonsense and all patently false.\u00a0 Truly, these people know no boundaries.<\/p>\n

I knew what everyone knew: On February 27, 2018, the council made a motion to settle the lawsuit and the lawyers announced \u201csettled\u201d to the court. I learned the terms of the settlement when I read Addison\u2019s newsletter last week.\u00a0 No one gave me information from an executive session.<\/p>\n

So, what is the basis for the recklessly false accusations against me? Well, it revolves around my use of the word \u201cfinally\u201d in a recent article, expressing my exasperation with the length of time it took to resolve the matter.\u00a0 In mid-April I took the negative spinners to task because they were disrespectful and rude at the Mayor\u2019s recent coffee.\u00a0 They asked aggressive and hostile questions.\u00a0 They called Mayor Joe Chow \u201cthe man in the blue suit,\u201d refusing to use his name or title.\u00a0 Then they cited their conduct as supposed evidence of general dissent, implicitly leading the reader to think that the rudeness had been spontaneous.\u00a0 When it was all staged.\u00a0 Then, I predicted that the same folks would use the same tactics at the upcoming Town Hall meeting, with one subject being \u201cthe wind turbine lawsuit that has (finally) been settled.\u201d<\/p>\n

The negative spinners have now twisted that wording to support their false narrative. They write that a \u201creader\u201d (unnamed, of course, and likely non-existent) found it \u201cinteresting\u201d that I \u201cwas somehow able to report the final settlement\u201d before it was publicly announced.\u00a0 Note the change from what I wrote (the lawsuit has (finally) been settled) to their wording (final settlement). They are two different things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long, tortured jump to get from what I wrote to the utterly false allegation that somehow I knew the terms of the settlement. These accusations have no basis in fact whatsoever, and they are malicious.<\/p>\n

Such nonsense is beneath Addison. But it demonstrates yet again why it is so important to exercise our vote to keep Addison moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n

The Addison Way is finally back, and we have to keep moving forward.<\/p>\n

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