MAPS Public Process Needs Correction

**Doug Loudenback** · 10-27-2009, 08:00 PM

**Midtowner** · 10-27-2009, 09:01 PM

WOW Larry, totally awesome stuff.

That is freakin' fantastic.

That said, the parallels are not perfect. While the sheriff is an elected official, c'mon, when is the last time an Oklahoma County Sheriff ever lost an election? City councilmen lose 'em all the time and there are several of 'em.

So yeah, I can draw some distinctions, but they ain't perfect.

**Larry OKC** · 10-28-2009, 07:01 AM

Thanks Doug, bdhumphreys & midtowner...for ending my day laughing

That's one of the inherent problems with analogies, they are rarely EXACTLY the same (by definition: 2a: resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unalike : similarity).

**Doug Loudenback** · 10-30-2009, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by Doug Loudenback

Well, I don't think that our city is well served by ignoring issues that are involved RIGHT NOW and which could be as quickly changed. So, I'll keep on keepin' on all the while favoring MAPS 3.

When the time comes that I perceive that there is nothing to be gained by honest and thorough journalism and that it is really better to pretend that it doesn't matter because of a greater good, when that time comes ... when that time comes ... hey, that time will not ever come.

News reporting could be changed RIGHT NOW. I understand that someone from the Chamber made a presentation at the Downtown Rotary Club last night, though I may be mistaken. I've looked for news about the event (yesterday to see if it was noticed anywhere publicly, today to see if any reports appear). Couldn't find anything. Maybe I misunderstood about the presentation.

It is no small pleasure for me to note that Steve Lackmeyer was authorized by the Oklahoman to attend the October 29 Breaking Through luncheon and that he was allowed to report on the event today, October 30, in the Oklahoman and more extensively in his OkcCentral blog.

How these significant facts developed must surely be a great story all by itself -- I would have loved to have been an invisible man watching the hand-wrenching and hair-pulling which must have occurred within the cloistered and guarded walls of the OPUBCO Building on Broadway Extension before this was allowed to happen.

In any event, I sincerely commend those at the Oklahoman who were responsible for making this happen.