Chris and Brian:
While I am very reluctant to respond publicly to the attack in question, I appreciate the question you raised on the LO Deck and feel compelled by the racially loaded aspersions cast against city and others rather than myself in the letter to provide background that might provide a measuring rod for truth and justice.
Along with the Board of Trustees, I’ve been dealing with a disgruntled person since typewriters were removed from the library. Over the past two decades he has from time to time published flyers contesting various matters and institutions – hospital, CEI, library, RTA. He has fabricated a great deal of falsehood about me and the library. In flyers produced on library computer and placed in the Community Newsroom, he has called he me a little dictator, Hitler and demanded my firing. That’s his right. I would never stop him. After 9/11 and the Anthrax scare he quipped to a staff member that he may sprinkle white power around the director’s office. He sets-up front groups and events and attempts to register them under false names.
I would suspect that when people don’t find the increasing volume of claims and complaints credible he changes names.
He is well known in editorial rooms. Roger Vozar of the Sun Papers, which publishes his letters from time to time had once remarked to a staff member that this person often sends letters under alias names after reaching the limits of letters under his real name.
When he does not get his way, the names and letters proliferate.
With the Technology Center closing at Main Library, several e-mail messages to the Board President under different names have been received.
By the way, there's another letter in the Lakewood paper produced by Westlaker Times under another name with more lies.
I don't know the degree of verification and fact-checking that goes on in editorial rooms.
One can examine the handiwork below and attempt to discern the true identity of the letter writer.
“There's no need to improve Euclid transit: Regarding your August 17 story on RTA's Euclid Corridor Project ["No Free Ride"]:
An RTA official told me months ago that Cleveland Mayor Michael White, who appoints half of its trustees and thereby seems to control RTA, asked RTA to do the Euclid Corridor Project in order to use RTA money to improve Euclid Avenue from Public Square to East 17th Street, to promote downtown business development. The project is an unjustified, unnecessary, excessively expensive $300 million duplication of existing, adequate bus service on Euclid Avenue.
The Euclid Corridor Project is another version of RTA's idiotic Dual Hub plan, which RTA spent a million dollars studying and promoting a few years ago, but dropped after continuous strong public opposition, since it would have cost at least a billion dollars to put that planned subway under Euclid Avenue from Public Square to University Circle. Was it a makework project to give construction companies connected to the RTA trustees or Mayor White big contracts?
While wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on these bogus projects, including the little-used waterfront rapid, RTA is cutting back existing bus service. In August, RTA substantially reduced bus service frequency on the 3/26 route, one of RTA's most heavily used buslines. RTA repeatedly told me they did not know why they reduced the 3/26 bus service. To free up money for the Euclid Corridor project or the RTA officials' salaries?
Steve Gannis
Lakewood
Source:
http://www.clevescene.com/2000-09-14/ne ... ut-harvey/
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“OUTRAGES EXPOSED
The Free Times should expose such local outrages as the following: Cleveland's City Council refuses to introduce legislation to prohibit Cleveland hospitals from their current practice of sometimes banning patients for complaining about their medical care.
One example is Cleveland Clinic's CEO Dr. Floyd Loop, who banned a patient a few weeks after the patient wrote a complaint about Loop to the State Medical Board. The Board did not deny the truth of the complaint, but let Loop get away with banning the patient for filing it. By contrast, the Ohio nursing home bill of rights law prohibits retaliation by nursing homes against any of their residents who complain. Major Cleveland hospitals get hundreds of millions of government dollars, our taxes, as Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. But politicians in government seem sold-out to the medical industry, and won't support this needed law. Good medical care requires the right to complain without such retaliation by hospitals.
Concerned? Call Ohio Patients Rights, 216-221-0228 to help get this law passed in Cleveland.
Steve Gannis
Lakewood
Source:
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/12/15/ ... ugust-4-10
>From: Steve Gannis <
rainbows5328@yahoo.com>
>To: Kris Harsh <
kristohio@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: newspaper plans
>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:36:04 -0800 (PST)
>The New York nesspaper does not get read much in Cleveland, does it? I am
>willing to help. The big question is who will pay to have it printed? Even
>a monthly of 2 pages. It is really needed. I tried to ask the Scene to do a
>news stroy about Giant Eagle now selling irraduated meat, and the fact that
>lakewood has a law banning the sale of irradiated food. As usual, the
>management at the Scene was very snotty and not interested. The Scene is
>all about money and image, they never were part of the movemnet, like the
>early Free Times sort of was. How much money can you folks raise for a
>montlhy broadsheet kind of thing? I'm afraid too few people read your web
>site to make enough difference. How many people click it on weekly ?
Source:
http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc ... 00857.html
See also
http://pbr.ohio.gov/pdf/2000/00-INV-03-0119.pdf
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Thank you,
Kenneth Warren
Director
Lakewood Public Library
