1. Dolphin-Lee (aka Nueva Vista) is housing only a relative handful of the people that originally lived in the Dolphin, Lee, and Rex Court. Check with Western Service Workers Union, which has had regular contacts with Dolphin-Lee residents. Most were bought or scared out.

And, no, $5400 doesn't buy the kind of cheap housing they previously had. There were hundreds served by the three motels. Hundreds more could have been served if housing had been built on vacant land, instead of following the rigid wasteful plan of the monopoly housing provider Mercy Housing. Fitzmaurice (whom you don't seem to criticize. Did you vote for him at the SCAN forum, "Truthlover"?) was the main booster of this bogus program, which was never brought to the previous residents for their consent before the RDA moved in with its consultants, relocaters, etc.

The called-for "guarantees of relocation and return" were never voted by City Council. This has turned out to be a massive Latino eviction project.

2. By the way, "Truthlover", how about telling us your real name? Or is that a part of the truth you're afraid we won't love? You smear me glibly enough. Why not sign your name to your attacks? Could you be hiding something?

3. You reluctantly repudiate Matthews and Rotkin. How about Fitzmaurice? Hasn't he sold out the Green Party (as has Porter)?

4. I think the depth of your malice and irrelevant personal attacks on me may be a function of your just not liking the issues I raise. If you feel you could raise them better and more effectively, I invite you to do so.

5. No Homeless Issues Task Force members were paid anything; they were all volunteers. City Council insider Don Lane ate up most of the money, though some on the Task Force thought a previously homeless person rather than a City Council cronie should have been hired. Lane did his best to sideline what initiatives the HITF did take, apparently not wanting to offend first Beiers and then Sugar. Brindel, though often positive, also showed himself to be unwilling to stand up on issues there which needed leadership. Your choice of bureaucrat heroes reveals your true political position.

6. All legal counsel I've ever gotten has been pro bono. There are some who believe in challenging the legal bullshit that police, city attorney, and city manager throw in the way of activists and homeless people. You might turn some of your venom on the truly well-paid city shysters who are systematically harassing homeless people as a matter of daily course.

7. You might get a new fact checker. Then, perhaps, you can forward a more accurate recitation of the "lies" in my flyer.

8. Rotkin and Matthews "few faulty decisions" include the the BSOL sell-out, the Pelton St. "Homeless Garden" evictions, youth and river curfews, trying to remove the right to peaceful protest at City Hall through court order (1996), abusive process at City Council (which you may support, if you agree with Fitzmaurice's "arrest 'em if they call us fascists" policy), scab labor support, selling out the firemen with Measure C.
While Mike and Cynthia are congenial enough people (and wouldn't have made it in politics if they hadn't been), it's their policies not their personalities that are in question--as you know.

9. Not sure what kind of "rabid lynchmob mentality" you're afraid of. What bothers me are stand-pat kiss ass characters who play pattycake with the big boys and fly into a tizzy when their heroes are questioned. A brand of untouchable-insiders psuedo-progressivism that lets Rotkin, Matthews, Fitzmaurice, etc. recycle into power while lying about and violating the rights of the poorest people in town, violating their promises to constituents, etc. We need more outspoken truthful criticism, more mass protest, and some support for progressive council candidates.

10. The scent of bullshit becomes unmistakable when reams of criticism are directed against me personally, but ever so few words expended to address either the issues or the facts I write about.

11. What did you say your real name was, "Truth Lover"?