[Leica] Answering Sonny about tomorrow

[jackherron at cox.net (Jack Herron)]

Sonny,
    Step back and cool down.  Look at some of your statements and lack of 
logic and try to realize that your anger is doing the talking and not your 
reason.
Jack C. Herron
8118 E. 20th St.
Tucson, AZ 85710
520 885-6933
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <SonC@aol.com>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Answering Sonny about tomorrow


>
> All Poll watchers are elderly people.  Are you going to volunteer when you
> retire?  In my experience as a news cameraman, The poll watchers said, 
> "Hi! You
> are from channel four? Are we gonna be on tv?"
>
"Are you going to volunteer--"  What does this have to do with the question? 
Answer-nothing.  It is simply a gratuitious attempt at an insult.  As for 
the "In my experience--" line, surely this is that "transference" that you 
so deride further down in the message.  I guess you get to and he doesn't.

The reporter and cameraman
>>>were discussing where to set up....
>
> This is what makes me doubt your story. Discussion of where to set up is 
> not
> an issue in a small place

This is completely ridiculous. If its easy to set up there is not much to 
talk about.  If setup presents some severe problems it is much more likely 
to generate discussion.  You are not thinking at this point.  And you base 
an accusation of lying on this silly point?

> Note
> also...I was not the only one to complain....I received a follow-up call
> from the PD corroborating my complaint with others. Had I access to a 
> local
> phone number for KIRO/KOMO ? I would have complained to the News Director.
>
> Not in the book? We usta field hundreds of calls at WWL when we screwed up

And you expect to find a pay phone and phone book in a temporary polling 
place?  How rational is that?  Not to mention that a personal history of 
"hundreds" of screw-ups may explain your excessifve sensitivity.

> Puerto Rican Nationals FALN) after coming down 9 flights I reach street
> level and a mic is shoved in my face with a voice asking me if I was
> "inconvenienced"  No warning! No ID...(It was the ABC Chicago affiliate)
>
> ummmm. transference. You had a chance for your 15 seconds of greatness and
> you f**ked it up. Oh well, that explains a lot. Just think before you call 
> the
> cops on someone trying to do their job.

OK, before your experience is simply an opportunity for us inexperienced 
individuals to learn from, but his is "Transference"?
It is hard to describe how offensive your attitude is that being treated 
rudely at a time of great stress is an opportunity for "greatness"!  Foul 
language to boot!  To quote you "Oh well, that explains a lot."  Like maybe 
hundreds of complaints?


> I still think militant is not quite the word for you.  Maybe snitch would 
> be
> a better description. Read the first amendment, and think hard on this.

Snitch!!  Take that bit of immaturity back to third grade!  Poll workers are 
not trained nor equipped to deal with those who are disturbing the peace, 
and the appropriate action is to call someone who is.  And the fact that 
multiple complaints were filed indicates that this was the case.

Chill out, read your words tomorrow, and post an apology.  This is 
completely unlike the southern gentleman we know.
> Regards,
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
> ?galit?, libert?, crawfish
>
>
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