Gerald, What’s That You Said About Alcohol?
I really didn’t understand the quote by SMU President R. Gerald Turner regarding the alcohol props on the ballot in University Park this November.
“I think it would be best for the proposed changes to be rejected to preserve the character of the community near the campus.”
But now I think I get it. Maybe he’s afraid the area AROUND campus will become a lot LIKE campus. Based on these photos of his university last Saturday afternoon, I see his point.
By Merritt Patterson
Oct. 25, 2010 | 9:12 am | 20 Comments | Comments RSS
20 comments to "Gerald, What's That You Said About Alcohol? "
I’m still waiting for Dr. Turner to at least admit that he “misspoke” about the actual content of the measures when he wrote about them in his letter.
Gerald Turner & “The Mayor’s Forum” or whatever they’re calling themselves are just plain dishonest. Makes me shudder that they (including Turner) are running the city.
I agree. Why is a person who professes high morals, would think that lying isn’t a good thing, etc., think it’s okay to turn around and blatantly lie about something “political”. How do they sleep at night?
So from now on, whenever Dr. Turner tells us something, do we need to “wink, wink” at him and ask “So, is this the ‘truth’ truth or is this a ‘political’ truth?” I mean if it’s okay for him and others to just make stuff up and mail it to us, then I guess it’s okay for them to make stuff up in board meetings, meeting with professors, donors, football recruits, etc.
This is your “Community League” at its’ finest trying to run the city and “preserve some false sense of ‘We’re better than you!’” through lies and deceit.
I predict Dick Davis and all of the grandfathers on council will not be re-elected in 2012.
This is our community, we are its future and we can make our own decisions.
This is irresponsible government at its finest.
No City For Old Men!
UP Mayor’s race is more a right of succession than an election. Old people get together and deem who is going to run and win. We need to have a 30 / 40 something revolution in UP so measures like this are presented in a correct manner.
That all may be true about Turner, but doesn’t he have the responsibility (along with the ex-Mayors) to actually understand the propositions, and speak accurately about them? I certainly hold a university president to that standard.
And he chose to weigh in on this to “preserve the character” of SMU (that he previously said he would stay out of since it was UP’s business), yet he chose not to make a statement regarding an issue that he directly controls, which is the amount of alcohol on the Boulevard.
If he had the facts straight, hadn’t gone back on an earlier committment to stay out, and applied the same concern for UP to his campus, then I’d be fine with his statement.
You have ignored, in your posting, a lot of what the law says that the city has no control over. That is the issue here.
I’m sure he’s a nice fellow also. But he basically lied about what is in the propositions. This has nothing to do with the “character” of the campus – it has to do with his statement that we will be inundated with a series of package stores, which is a blatant lie.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/101710dnmetunderagecriminal.29addfe.html
If that were not bad enough, some of our current and past civic leaders are defending the slippery private club rules that were designed to evade the State mandated dry area rules. Let’s stop pretending that all is well and face the fact that we need to update our laws.
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