GUEST COLUMN: A response to One Southern Indiana Chairman Kevin Hammersmith, by Paul Fetter in One Combined Newspaper
Our name is Organization For A Better Southern Indiana, Inc., and our agenda is exactly that. No2bridgetolls.org is the name of our cause and website. We are all Southern Indiana business owners and operators that have decades of experience in eking out a living in Southern Indiana. We know by these years of experience the challenges of drawing Kentucky consumers and visitors to Southern Indiana. It is the knowledge we have gained in operating successful businesses that give us the understanding of the division that will occur if you toll the bridges that connect our river city, charging admission to visit and do business in Southern Indiana.
New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Fetter 1, Hammersmith 0.
Paul, you've got some nerve pre-empting another of One Southern Indiana's self-congratulatory exercises in irrelevance, described by a reader as one of the area's "premier events" (huh?), by smacking down the organization's utility monoply chairman. The oligarchs ain't gonna like it.
That's OK. The oligarchs will just make up more stuff, state politicians will nod in unison, and the News and Tribune will print it all, no messy questions or fact checking required.
ReplyDelete1si having an event is front page news. 1Si lying to the public with billions of dollars and decades of consequences at stake, not so much.
CJ quotes Mayor Fisher of Louisville as saying that most of those against the bridges don't even cross the river.
ReplyDeleteThey just keep repeating the lies, hoping that someone will believe them.