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09-30-2007, 12:10 PM
Author: Dave Sanderson (http://talkchristmas.com//profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=111)
Subject: Update
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:51 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 5
Hi, guys. Dave Sanderson here -- the guy with the problem described at TheCityThatStoleChristmas. (I learned of this site via a Google Alert I received on the topic.)
If you've read the site, you already know my problem. My original mistake was trying to be too buttoned up and a good citizen by going to the City in the first place to deal with any potential problems before they occurred. Dumb idea, and I encourage you to learn from my mistake. Be a good neighbor and work with your neighbors. But don't give bureaucrats the opportunity to be bureaucrats.
The update is that there is no update. Because the City is now not only unfair, they're mad. They don't like the site and the fact that local media has already been paying attention (as well as the ACLU, by the way.) So the only thing that is going to change between now and when I turn the lights on is that there are going to be a lot of TV cameras around as we set things up. And I'm guessing I'm the only guy in America who has programmed my display to the theme song from Cops (Bad Boys) for when they shut me down. http://talkchristmas.com//images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
The other think that might be good news for you guys is that I have some background in dealing with the media, we have a lot of network people running around Iowa these days because of the upcoming election, and I would like to think that if Ankeny persists in feeding their own insanity and egos rather than embracing common sense and public service, is that no other City in the free world will ever dare do anything like this again when they see what happens to Ankeny this holiday season when people actually care.
I love the town and the people here, by the way. It's where I moved to raise my kids. So I don't like what I see coming for them. But I also don't know how to stop it, because the media is going to do what the media is going to do. Because it's a real story.
Thanks for caring, guys. It means a lot.
More from TalkChristmas.com... (http://talkchristmas.com/viewtopic.php?p=2695#2695)
Subject: Update
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:51 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 5
Hi, guys. Dave Sanderson here -- the guy with the problem described at TheCityThatStoleChristmas. (I learned of this site via a Google Alert I received on the topic.)
If you've read the site, you already know my problem. My original mistake was trying to be too buttoned up and a good citizen by going to the City in the first place to deal with any potential problems before they occurred. Dumb idea, and I encourage you to learn from my mistake. Be a good neighbor and work with your neighbors. But don't give bureaucrats the opportunity to be bureaucrats.
The update is that there is no update. Because the City is now not only unfair, they're mad. They don't like the site and the fact that local media has already been paying attention (as well as the ACLU, by the way.) So the only thing that is going to change between now and when I turn the lights on is that there are going to be a lot of TV cameras around as we set things up. And I'm guessing I'm the only guy in America who has programmed my display to the theme song from Cops (Bad Boys) for when they shut me down. http://talkchristmas.com//images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
The other think that might be good news for you guys is that I have some background in dealing with the media, we have a lot of network people running around Iowa these days because of the upcoming election, and I would like to think that if Ankeny persists in feeding their own insanity and egos rather than embracing common sense and public service, is that no other City in the free world will ever dare do anything like this again when they see what happens to Ankeny this holiday season when people actually care.
I love the town and the people here, by the way. It's where I moved to raise my kids. So I don't like what I see coming for them. But I also don't know how to stop it, because the media is going to do what the media is going to do. Because it's a real story.
Thanks for caring, guys. It means a lot.
More from TalkChristmas.com... (http://talkchristmas.com/viewtopic.php?p=2695#2695)