Email Response to Speaking with Forked Tongue article:
Ken Sapp who frequently criticizes information
published by me on this website and the LNO website, responded to the
following invitation published at the end of the Forked Tongue article.
The email from Mr. Sapp follows the invitation reproduced below.
My response to his allegations with corresponding facts follows his
email.
"I would like to invite any readers of this
website to please notify me personally of any item or fact published on
this site that is in anyway false, misleading or deceptive. Upon
receiving such information, if a correction is necessary, I will publish
it for all to see. Send your information to:
publisher@nrhonline.com
"
E-Mail:
From: Ken4co@aol.com
Date: 4/2/2005 11:11 AM
To: publisher@nrhonline.com
Subject: Re: False or Negative
You request that you be notified of false or negative information on
your site.
Are you kidding? It is a fantasy filled, negative treatise of
falsehoods accentuated by half truths. You are the birthplace of
negative information and the foundation for the beginning of negative
campaigning in NRH. While I think you may have had honorable intentions
at the outset, you allowed a personal agenda to dominate your rhetoric.
Have others countered with negative campaigning. Yes they have as
retaliation or rebuttal to the continual negative statements and untrue
or accusations: "Slush Funds - Illegal Ordinances Pork Barrel Spending"
Without rebuttal some might assume your vitriolic, verbose blathering is
truth.
(Unsigned)
Dear Mr. Sapp,
Thank you for visiting and reading the information on NRHOnline. I hope you
will visit often and
find the material enlightening.
My offer to publish and false or erroneous information still stands. The city
budgeted over $3 Million for
Sundries in the current year budget which was passed without questions.
Sundries is virtually a synonym
for the primary definition of "slush funds".
The current sign ordinance is in violation of state law but is being enforced
anyway. Legal signs are being
destroyed by the city using taxpayer money. The use of tax money for this
purpose is one example of what
I identify as "pork". Crooked sidewalks that cost more to build than straight
walks and cost more to maintain
is another example of wasteful pork barrel spending. Other examples can be
provided on request.
I hope this answers your email and my offer to correct "false, misleading or
deceptive information" on NRHOnline. Your addition of "negative" is
another one of your "opinions" and will not be responded to.
I appreciate your admission of engaging
in negative campaigning in retaliation for your "opinion" of my work.
NRHOnline will continue to publish issues based on as much factual information
as is possible to extract from
our city government. We will also continue to provide the vivid comparisons of
the challengers to the records
of the incumbents. We do not plan to engage in the name calling negative
tactics you seem to enjoy using.
The information on NRHOnline still stands as truth since you have pointed out no
false information at all.
Regards,
Ron West