From: Jim Gashel 
Subject: Re: ACB Washington Connection (fwd)
hello harvey:
there you go again.  Steve jacobson described your approach toward
responding to the rest of us much better than I was able to do.  it seems
that you can never be content to simply respond to a message on point, but
you often immediately leap to expressing a long list of other grievances
you have against our national leadership.  that in turn compels some of us
to take the bate and respond to those issues, which in turn leads you into
expressing another long list of grievances against our leaders or
something else about the federation.  While this tactic may be fullfilling
to you in some twisted manner, you should know that you are isolating
yourself on this list to the point that many people are already hitting
the delete button when they see your name.  Others are reading on for
intertainment but not for enlightenment.  I am sure, of course, that there
are also some who are reading your posts here because they think your
complaints confirms their negative views as well, but they are in the
minority.  
by the way, my withdrawl of the term chronic complainer as a discription
for your conduct has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the impression
you are giving to others by that conduct.  It merely removes the label if
that helps.  
thanks,
j. g.
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 hheagy@delphi.com wrote:
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> 
> I was not the only one who had a part in this thread's evolution.
> He could have dealt with the issues I brought up.
> 
> Also the apology I was given for calling me a chronic
> complainer was not made because Mr. Gashel saw my posting about
> the projects I had taken on during 1997, but was made in a back
> handed sort of fashion that it was the only label he could think
> of that described what he wanted to say and that if either he or
> I could find a less offensive one he would accept it.  That to me
> is word manipulation and not dealing with issues.  The national
> leadership has a way of doing that when it doesn't want to
> confront an issue.
> 
> I am not a negative person.  I defend our leadership when I feel
> it is correct, and oppose it when I feel it is not.  It is as
> simple as that.  I believe there is room for descent in this
> organization or should be and that each member does not have to
> agree with every single issue to be a member in good standing.
> 
> 
> Harvey
> 
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