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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PR efforts have been aggressive on this parcel.  Most disturbing is that clergy have been manipulated .

If I was a member of any of the congregations or churches led by the signers of the op ed : Aaron Alexander (Adas Israel) Hannah Goldstein ( Temple Sinai), Ledlie I. Laughlin ( St Columba's) Rachel Livingston and Doug Robinson-Johnson ( National UMC) and Molly Blythe Teichert ( CCPC), I would be irate. Did they even ask their members or their Boards where they stood on this issue that is truly dividing the community ?? They signed a fake-lofty piece of strategic PR that commercial interests likely wrote and put in front of them.

It’s shameful to squander one's well won credibility for a bunch of developers using them to bolster a land grab.  How dumb are they ? 
1. Do they know where their own members and Board stand on the issues?  Or did they poll their members ? 
2. They could easily have said they support the social justice efforts on racial covenants and affordable housing but explicitly abstain from commenting on the issue of whether to offer the public land to private interests. 
3. Was a back door deal done with any of them ? Were they promised a donation or some-such? Who wrote the op-Ed for them ? Are they willing to explain to their members exactly how this came about ?

Amazing they didn’t know bringing in the clergy was literally the oldest trick in the book. It's not leadership to throw your name onto a PR piece that's being used for political purposes. I'm sure many many others wisely said no before this crew got seduced. [/quote]

So, I guess you are opposed to development on the site.

Just because these faith leaders may actually support the development, does not warrant your blatant, anti-religious screed.

Some of the things you are alleging are quite outrageous and unwarranted.  Especially the implication that they were bribed.[/quote]

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