1. Cambridge Councilor Leland Cheung to “reflect on” city’s destructiveness.
2. Translation by your editor.
3. Councilor’s Words.
1. Cambridge Councilor Leland Cheung to “reflect on” city’s destructiveness.
Cambridge City Councilor sent out an broad distribution email.
He encouraged the readers to come to the city council inauguration on January 2, 2012. “I hope to share this special day with you and reflect on what we have accomplished this past term.”
2. Translation by your editor.
I think the best response I can give to this is to quote again the letter I recently submitted to the Cambridge Chronicle. I was very pleased with an op ed which concluded with words very favorable to the late Alfred Vellucci who was a member of the Cambridge City Council and served as the city’s mayor.
Al Vellucci was a quirky long term Cambridge City Councilor who stood up to a lot of behavior of Harvard’s, but, more importantly, stood up to some pretty silly thinking by many people in Cambridge who consider themselves intelligent. He had a term for such people. I forget exactly what it was, but the key thing about Al was common sense. While the people he belittled frequently had trouble recognizing what was occurring to their faces, Al never had problems recognizing the reality about him. The basic mentality was that too many people in Cambridge are too intelligent to recognize reality, finding all sorts of complicated situations when all that was necessary was to look around you and observe.
My proposed letter to the editor read:
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Where are George Orwell and Al Vellucci when you need them?
One of the most astute comments in Cambridge in many years.
Al would not explain it this way, but Al was not smart enough to convince himself that the obvious was not true.
A superior court judge responded with “reprehensible” to the Cambridge City Manager destroying a female department head’s life in retaliation for her filing a civil rights complaint. The appeals court treated Cambridge’s appeal with disgust by refusing to grant a formal opinion. “Ample evidence [of] outrageous actions.” The jury tacks on $3.5 million PENAL damages in addition to $1.1 million real damages.
The Cambridge Pols cannot believe what is in front of their own eyes. They cannot understand that Healy should be fired for Monteiro.
The Cambridge Pols spent 15 years “defending” Alewife by telling people concerned about Alewife not to look at the totally unnecessary and down right bizarre destruction being planned by Cambridge and its friends. They just cannot understand that protecting North Cambridge against massive flooding from 50 year storms cannot be done with environmental destruction that protects against 2 year storms. They just cannot understand that there is a massive parking lot directly across the street from their new strip mine / former irreplaceable forest. They cannot understand that that massive parking lot can do the flood protection job that their destruction of this irreplaceable treasure cannot do.
The Cambridge Pols cannot see why there is a problem with destroying healthy grass at Magazine Beach which survived most of a century and replacing it with sickly stuff that needs poisons to survive. They cannot understand why there is a problem with dumping poisons on the banks of the Charles to keep alive vegetation which should not be there.
They praise swimming in the Charles and cannot understand why there is a problem with walling off Magazine Beach from the Charles with a bizarre wall of introduced bushes.
They condemn Michael Vick and cannot understand why heartless animal abuse aimed at the Charles River White Geese as part of so many bizarre projects is wrong.
They condemn Michael Vick and cannot understand why mass killings of thousands of animals at Alewife is wrong.
Al Vellucci was not smart enough to fool himself as efficiently as the Cambridge Pols insist they are fooled.
Al Vellucci was not smart enough to even consider such nonsense.
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Councilor Cheung encouraged the readers to come to the city council inauguration on January 2, 2012. “I hope to share this special day with you and reflect on what we have accomplished this past term.”
3. Councilor’s Words.
I hope you are enjoying the holiday season with family and friends and wish you all the best in the upcoming year. I want to remind you that the City Council Inaugural Meeting on Monday, January 2 at City Hall is free and open to the public. I hope to share this special day with you and reflect on what we have accomplished this past term. Everything leading up to this moment was because of your loyal support and dedication and I won't forget all you have done as I enter in to my second term. Thank you for standing with me and I look forward to working with you next year!
