Re: Jay Wimer Has Passed
| March 03, 2022 07:06AM |
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Chris Webster Wrote:
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> Here's my recollection of what happened: The
> then-President of the C&TS had negotiated the
> trade with the D&SNG and all that seemed to be
> left was for the C&TS Commissioners to approve the
> deal. The Commissioners then put off their
> decision for a few weeks in order to first hear
> from the local community. Jay then posted on his
> board something about how he was going to talk to
> one Commissioners and tell him the truth about the
> deal. At the next meeting, that Commissioner who
> Jay spoke with voted no and the resulting 2-2 vote
> is what killed the trade.
I think a more appropriate line of investigation would be to talk to the no-voting commissioners to find out why they voted that way. Jay was just one member of the community.
I don't particularly agree with the decision, but it would appear that some factions lobbied more heavily than others....
>
> You can see most of what happened in the
> commission minutes; the only parts missing are
> Jay's posts on the Goat. Unfortunately, I cannot
> quote Jay because the Goat lost all its posts from
> October 2014 thru July 2020 and the Wayback Engine
> only seems to have archived subject lines and not
> the posts themselves.
Just looked, all the data is there but the software isn't pointing to it for some reason. I'll look into fixing it, but I can't promise results as I'm learning webbbs from scratch (although it's in Perl, my very favorite scripting language...
) and I have a few other higher priorities on my plate right now...
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Rader Sidetrack
I note here that I'm not
> aware that Jay's name is actually mentioned in any
> of those minutes.
> Here's my recollection of what happened: The
> then-President of the C&TS had negotiated the
> trade with the D&SNG and all that seemed to be
> left was for the C&TS Commissioners to approve the
> deal. The Commissioners then put off their
> decision for a few weeks in order to first hear
> from the local community. Jay then posted on his
> board something about how he was going to talk to
> one Commissioners and tell him the truth about the
> deal. At the next meeting, that Commissioner who
> Jay spoke with voted no and the resulting 2-2 vote
> is what killed the trade.
I think a more appropriate line of investigation would be to talk to the no-voting commissioners to find out why they voted that way. Jay was just one member of the community.
I don't particularly agree with the decision, but it would appear that some factions lobbied more heavily than others....
>
> You can see most of what happened in the
> commission minutes; the only parts missing are
> Jay's posts on the Goat. Unfortunately, I cannot
> quote Jay because the Goat lost all its posts from
> October 2014 thru July 2020 and the Wayback Engine
> only seems to have archived subject lines and not
> the posts themselves.
Just looked, all the data is there but the software isn't pointing to it for some reason. I'll look into fixing it, but I can't promise results as I'm learning webbbs from scratch (although it's in Perl, my very favorite scripting language...
) and I have a few other higher priorities on my plate right now...
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