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25 juli 2006
Ypsilanti Campaign for Equality Letter Draws New Response
A KIND READER SENDS the following letter:
"Dear Steve and Lois,
Last Friday, July 21, we e-mailed former co-chairs of the dissolved
Ypsilanti Campaign for Equality Beth Bashert and Lisa Zuber, copied to
Paul Schreiber, the letter below. As you'll read, we were hoping that
in the interest of fairness they would send us the list of YCFE
supporters they used to send their letter of July 1, 2006, which we
believe misrepresented your past and/or current views and actions
regarding the Ypsilanti Human Rights Ordinance. Our intention was that
if you wished you could use that list to contact the supporters of the
defunct YCFE, just as the Schreiber campaign paid for the July 1
letter, which appeared under the YCFE letterhead.
Also copied below, you'll see that Beth Bashert responded almost
immediately, with the single word "No." We received no response from
Lisa Zuber or from Paul Schreiber.
As you know, we were not solicited by either of you to undertake this
effort. For the sake of full disclosure, please be advised that we are
Pierce supporters. But please also know we only made that decision
after receiving the"YCFE" letter, which for us tilted the scales far
away from the Schreiber candidacy.
Please feel free to use our names and/or anything contained in this
e-mail if when contacting voters about this issue. We are copying this
e-mail to ypsidixit.com and trustygetto.com so that as many Ypsilanti
residents as possible may hear in a timely manner of our
correspondence.
Best of luck to the both of you.
Sincerely,
Barbara Zmich
Celeste McClellan
From: Beth Bashert (e-address deleted)
Subject: Re: Schreiber endorsement letter
Date: July 21, 2006 3:07:03 PM EDT
To: Barbara Zmich/Celeste McClellan (e-address deleted)
Reply-To: Beth Bashert (e-address deleted)
No.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Zmich/Celeste McClellan (e-address deleted)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:50:09
To: Beth Bashert (e-address deleted), Lisa Zuber (e-address deleted)
Cc: Paul Schreiber (e-address deleted) ,Barbara Zmich/Celeste
McClellan (e-address deleted)
Subject: Schreiber endorsement letter
Dear Lisa and Beth,
We read with dismay and concern the extremely misleading letter you
sent out on July 1 to supporters of the now-defunct Ypsilanti Campaign
for Equality. In that letter, you use the letterhead of the now defunct
YCFE and your titles of that dissolved organization to endorse Paul
Schreiber for mayor of Ypsilanti. Among the most egregious omissions is
the fact that Lisa Zuber is co-chair of the Schreiber for Mayor
campaign.
Setting aside the politics involved, we feel that as the former
co-chairs of YCFE, you misused the organization's name, issuing your
endorsement without authorization by YCFE supporters.
The implications, misstatements and omissions in the letter are at
the least, in our opinion, unethical, and for us have cast a dark
shadow over both the Schreiber campaign and your own personal
credibility.
Since we were also contributors to the Ypsilanti Campaign for
Equality, we believe we are on an equal footing to you with regard to
the use of the information generated during the campaign. In the
interest of fairness we ask you to email us by the end of the day
Sunday, July 23, 2006 the list you used for that mailing so that we may
pass it on to both the Steve Pierce for Mayor campaign and the Lois
Richardson campaign. They both deserve the opportunity, if they wish
to do so, to point out to the supporters of the YCFE the omissions and
misstatements contained in your letter.
Sincerely,
Barbara Zmich
Celeste McClellan
Posted by ypsidixit at 25 juli 2006 19:01
Comments
From a stalled campaign, an act of desperation. How it all pans out will be known the evening of Aug. 8th.
Posted by: Old Goat at 25 juli 2006 19:57
phooooo! such drama! didn't know this town was big enough for all this hullaballoo!
(glad to see you back to yr blog~missed it!)
Posted by: amanda at 25 juli 2006 20:04
Beth Bashert's email address is beth_bashert@yahoo.com -- posted with her permission.
Posted by: Lisa Marshall Bashert at 25 juli 2006 21:51
Yes, things do tend to slow down once all the unions have issued their endorsements. Isn't it interesting that Pierce seems to have gotten them all, yet the other candidate doesn't have a single one listed on his web page? Did the other candidate get ANY union endorsements?
Looks like the unions know who the real Democrat is.
Posted by: Rabble Rouser at 26 juli 2006 08:39
Union Burying Ground
I see they're low'ring a right new coffin,
I see they're letting down a right new coffin,
Way over in that union burying ground.
And the new dirt's a falling on a right new coffin,
The new dirt's a falling on a right new coffin,
Way over in that union burying ground.
Oh, tell me, who's that they're letting down, down?
Tell me, who's that they're letting down, down?
Way over in that union burying ground.
Another union organizer,
Another union organizer,
Way over in that union burying ground.
A union brother and a union sister,
A union brother and a union sister,
Way over in that union burying ground.
A union father and a union mother,
A union father and a union mother,
Way over in that union burying ground.
Well, I'm a gonna sleep in a union coffin,
I'm a gonna sleep in a union coffin,
Way over in that union burying ground.
Every new grave brings a thousand new ones,
Every new grave brings a thousand members,
Way over in that union burying ground.
Every new grave brings a thousand brothers,
And every new grave brings a thousand sisters
To the union in that union burying ground.
Posted by: Woody G. at 26 juli 2006 09:07
Aren't there three Democratic candidates? So that means the other two (2) are merely posers.
Posted by: John Gawlas at 26 juli 2006 09:23
Friendly reminder: you can see them all and judge for yourself tomorrow night at EMU in McKenny Union at 7 p.m. More info.
Posted by: Laura at 26 juli 2006 09:30
NOT being endorsed by unions is actually a form of endorsement.
Posted by: leighton Mann at 26 juli 2006 16:56
The sorriest kind of endorsement.
Posted by: E. Goldman at 26 juli 2006 18:37
There once was a union maid
Who never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks
And deputy sheriffs who made the raids
She went to the union hall
When a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys came 'round
She always stood her ground.
cho: Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union,I'm sticking to the union
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union till theday I die.
Posted by: j. hill at 26 juli 2006 18:41
You can't scare me, I'm working for the union, working for the union,
I'm working for the union,
til the day I die...
Posted by: Anonymous at 26 juli 2006 20:32
"(2) are merely posers."
Hardly
Posted by: Anonymous at 26 juli 2006 20:35
Politics, in Ypsi, is a lot like union politics: Down and dirty!
Posted by: Old Goat at 26 juli 2006 20:47
The debate tomorrow should be plenty juicy. I'm practically licking my chops in anticipation.
Posted by: Laura at 26 juli 2006 21:16
Glad to see Ypsi politics hot and heavy. I guess it means people care enough to get involved. Put the boxing gloves on and fight for our city, may the best man or woman win!
Posted by: Anonymous at 27 juli 2006 10:31