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Subject: Facts? Straight? Tom? Which one doesn't belong?

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Ned Depew

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Date Posted: 10:03:54 07/28/05 Thu
In reply to: Thomas Koulos 's message, "Re: Yearning for Disneyland?" on 15:32:01 07/27/05 Wed

Tom -

It is deliciously ironic that you urge someone else to get their facts straight!

You and other SLC advocates continued to urge acceptance of the SLC proposal even when dozens of individuals from various other economic segments of the economy, from manufacturers like Kaz and H.A.V.E. to the many small farms that have started up in the area to hospitality businesses, real estate professionals and many others all testified that they had reason to beleive (based on what had happened in other places) that their businesses would be damaged by the SLC project.

You clearly didn't care what happened to anyone but SLC. You were looking forward (and backward) - as you told us many times - to the new "good old days" when Cement Company payrolls dominated the regional economy, and you reminded us of how "prosperous" Hudson was in the 1940s and 50s, when it was nothing but a "Company Town."

Neither you nor HVEEC (which fell completely apart when its one issue - advocacy of the SLC proposal - went south) ever made any proposals for a "balanced economy" or advocated any such thing. You made a fool of yourself stumbling over your own words to try to argue in favor of that poorly-planned, poorly-executed proposal and now you want to re-write history to try to pretend that that did not happen. But it did.

It was not FoH that killed the SLC proposal, it was the New York State Department of State - as part of the very "process" of review by State Agencies that you and Gene and others urged us to "trust" to do the right thing.

Then, when it did the right thing, you suddenly no longer "trust" it yourselves or support "the process," but insist it has been corrupted by "politics." That is just another laughable attempt by you to save face. But anyone who has been paying the slightest attention knows better.

Until you come up with some positive proposals of your own - instead of just calling others names and criticizing others' efforts - you will be seen as nothing more than a self-important loudmouth, desperately trying to get attention any way you can.

I know you are better than that Tom, and I hope you will rise above that impluse and bring your considerable insight and expereience to bear on coming up with solutions (not simply bemoaning others' lack of them) to our problems.

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Thomas Koulos
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Date Posted: 16:36:54 07/28/05 Thu

Fact.you may be looking for a POLITICAL APPOINTMENT since you are not running for Publi Office and by the way I and others read your defensive hype of the FoH devisive rhetoric that you have been feeding us.The voters can accept or reject the proposed NIMBY PLANS because they and the rest of us have to live with the consequences of their votes.
As Gene,Londa,I and others have stated with our names on the record that too is a matter of HISTORY we stand by our opinions while the powers to be try to stifle ours with their so called United Commuinity rhetoric PATRONS.
A 42 year proffesional REPORTER was astounded at the lengths that the R.S. has gone to keep my and others views from being published by firing two of their well known reporters.While they think they have pulled the wool over our eyes,these and other revalations will come back to haunt them.Tom Koulos