Re: CVV Legislative Efforts

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

4/30/04

To: Paul Tiger, Boulder County Commissioners,
	Bo Shaffer, Libertarian Party, Citizens for Verifiable Voting

Paul:

I saw your public comments to the Commissioners after we'd had an off 
list discussion regarding your attacks on me, that I tried to be 
"friendly" to you after you repeatedly attacked me in public and in 
private may be worth noting.

I'm simply trying to set the record straight, where you broke it and 
apparently wish to distort it.

I don't just disagree with you, you were misrepresenting facts and I 
was hoping you'd be wise enough to correct yourself for the greater 
public good. This is not about my opinion or your opinion, it's about 
you making materially false statements either deliberately or because 
you had been misled, I presumed the latter since I knew you weren't 
present for any of the legislative efforts.

You can be wrong by yourself all you want (and I'm sure you are), the 
facts are what they are, and you inserted falsehoods into the public 
record.

For the record, CVV helped work on and promote legislation to correct 
problems with Colorado's election laws, this is a matter of fact. You 
claim you requested this on behalf of your party as did "others" and 
then you claimed CVV didn't take any such actions and intentionally 
hindered such efforts. Should your comments have impacted the 
Commissioner's decision, as we can only hope public comments do, you 
will have done the entire community a disservice by continuing the 
falsehoods you'd been fed, presumably by someone with an agenda against 
the citizenry. Given that you work for the County Elections Division 
and are a candidate for a local office, the public certainly has a 
direct interest in knowing who that might be.

Please let the public record reflect the dedicated efforts of CVV to 
ensure Trustworthy Elections at the State legislative level, and refute 
the misrepresentations inserted by Mr. Tiger.

Not that any of us expect we'll actually get honesty, let alone 
representation, from our government anymore.

Joe

Joe Pezzillo
Boulder




On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:55 AM, Paul Tiger wrote:

> In short reply to the long-winded accusations and meaningless 
> diatribes -
>
> I meant all the things that I said in my email to the commissioners. I 
> have
> supported legislation that some CVV members have challenged. Follow 
> the law
> or change it.
>
> Because you don't agree with me doesn't make you correct or more 
> correct
> than me. I have an opinion. You have an opinion. One is not more valid 
> than
> the other based on volume.
>
> I have no apologies to make. It is interesting that in private emails
> so-called leaders of CVV are quite friendly and recognize the value of
> difference. But on this list the schizophrenia pours off the page. 
> Really
> bizarre.
>
> "Noise proves nothing.  Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles 
> as if
> she had laid an asteroid."
>
> 		Mark Twain