I'm part of a neighborhood group and we're having a meeting tonight with several subjects, one is how the Southeast High Speed Rail corridor will affect our neighborhoods and how to get a win-win for everyone... which is possible and we're creating, one city council member at a time...
One of our group insists on dragging in his ideology, and is always citing right wing talking points to show us how we should be opposed to high speed rail completely. Which would negate any effects on our neighborhoods indeed, but most of us are very much in favor of the rail projects, but he tries anyway.
I have tried to get him to quit trying to 'broaden the scope' of what we're working on, but he insists I'm trying to stifle free discussion... [eyeroll]
I'm only telling him our neighborhood group isn't the forum for that discussion, he needs to take that argument elsewhere, there are plenty of avenues for that. (Even more now that the Popes just bought themselves the NC state house... now I have to keep myself from going off topic... bad highacidity, bad ;-)
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