Governor Douglas’s former spokesman and current commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation is leaving his post to run for Secretary of State. He’ll face Republican Chris Roy in the Republican primary and will face either Charles Merriman or Jim Condos on the Democratic side, depending on the results of that primary.
Following is the email that went to the department:
From: Gibbs, Jason
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:19 PM
To: ANR – FPR
Subject: Moving on…
Importance: Low
Dear Colleague:
As the legislative session draws to a close, I write to notify you that I will be stepping down as commissioner effective May 14th to pursue other options.
Above all else, I want to thank you for your extraordinary professionalism, hard work and resilience during a tumultuous time. Working with, and learning from, each of you has been an amazing experience for which I will always be grateful. My admiration for FPR and its important work will never fade and you can count on me to be an advocate for the department in the years ahead.
Together, we’ve overcome historic challenges. We focused our entire organization on actions that would help generate economic activity, increase (and diversify) our revenue base and reduce our reliance on tax dollars. We resolved to be agile and innovative-constantly evaluating changes in our environment-always adapting in ways that maximize our productivity and the value of every dollar that taxpayers invest in us.
To be sure, it hasn’t been all peaches and cream.
Continued below the fold.
Our progress wasn’t easy, without difficult decisions or the need for each of us to shoulder more responsibility. Nevertheless, you rose to the challenge and embraced the opportunity to prove that a government agency is capable of being nimble, innovative, less costly, more productive, and a true partner to private sector economic activity. I could not be more proud of this organization.
Because of your hard work, both the legislative and executive branches regard FPR as a model for other areas of government and are poised to provide us with a level of operational flexibility-and budgetary stability- over the next two fiscal years that is truly unprecedented and does not, in any way, deviate from our core public service and natural resource functions. In fact, this flexibility and stability is critical to preserving these important functions and our current staffing levels.
As FPR moves forward, our state continues to face serious challenges. We need to rethink, revitalize and reform policies and systems at every level of government, until we are satisfied that they are the best, most efficient, most productive and most valuable policies we can put in place. But because of our efforts, FPR is among the best positioned, and the best prepared, to succeed in this era of change.
Over the next few weeks, my focus will be on wrapping up our legislative priorities and tying up various loose ends. And, when a replacement has been selected by the Governor and Secretary, I will work to ensure a seamless transition.
As always, please feel free to contact me for any reason. My personal contact information is below.
I wish you all the very best for a bright and productive future-please do stay in touch!
Senator Bernie Sanders and thousands of other Vermonters will join together Saturday May 1st at the Healthcare Is A Human Right Rally in Montpelier.
11am: March from City Hall, 39 Main Street
12 Noon: Rally at Statehouse Lawn
It’s for your health!
Need details, see the links and contact information below for the Vermont Workers’ Center
From the email sent to me by Jonny Leavitt of the Vermont Workers Center:
The day will feature art, theater, music, and entertainment for all ages. Invite your neighbors and co-workers, bring your friends and family, and come celebrate with the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign
Join with thousands of Vermonters and Senator Bernie Sanders for a rally which will help put Vermont on course to lead the country in establishing a healthcare system in our state that treats healthcare as a public good for all. The bill S.88 has now been voted through both chambers of the state legislature and is on its way to becoming a law that will design and implement a universal system of healthcare in Vermont.
Can you help us make the rally even bigger?
– Take the I’ll Be There pledge that you’ll be there at the rally and will try to bring family and friends to show our legislators that we need healthcare as a human right! http://www.workerscenter.org/may1
BP’s recent post “Dubie Scheduled to Ride the Tiger” referred to the “unsatisfying glimpse” into Brian Dubie’s character revealed in his Facebook page. On the contrary, Dubie’s favorite cultural touchstones provide a clear window onto the man’s soul. I can’t call it “satisfying,” because, in fact, it’s rather disturbing.
First, and least, of all, his favorite TV show went off the air 35 years ago, his favorite movie was released 39 years ago, and his favorite novel came out in Nineteen Freakin’ Fifty-Nine. When exactly did he stop paying attention to popular culture? Has he heard about this newfangled hippity-hop music that the kids are into these days?
But more revealing is the content of Dubie’s top picks.
Okay, “The Omega Man.” A movie about a single heroic figure (Charlton Heston, natch) who travels an apocalyptic wasteland (taxed-to-death Vermont?) battling armies of homicidal mutants (liberals?). He is nearly burned at the stake by said mutants for the crime of heresy (conservatism?), but manages to escape. Then, he creates an anti-mutation cure from his own blood — shades of General Ripper — and, at the end of the movie, sacrifices himself in an effort to secure the survival of humanity. He dies, according to Wikipedia’s description, “symbolically posed in the traditional position of the crucified Christ.”
Yikes. Well, maybe we can find some balance in his favorite novel. Seek the Fair Land, by Irish writer Walter Macken, is set in Ireland during the period of Cromwellian rule, a time when British authorities were actively persecuting Catholics and forcing them to abjure their faith. The lead character, Dominick MacMahon, sees his wife killed in a bloody massacre and flees to the countryside with his two children and a wounded priest. There, they battle starvation, deprivation, and the pursuit of a relentless government official.
That’s still kind of apocalyptic for my taste. “Gunsmoke” isn’t quite so toxic, but it does speak to the same kind of hero-fantasy: a laconic man (Marshall Dillon never debated his enemies, either) of spotless character and integrity defending his community against the forces of disorder and lawlessness.
As for Dubie’s favorite quotation, “Press On” is rather generic, but I suspect he takes it from the Bible. Specifically, the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians, chapter 3, verse 14 (New International Version): “I press on toward the prize for which God has called me in Jesus Christ.”
If the notion of a political candidate with Messianic impulses doesn’t appeal to you, maybe you’d prefer “Press On” in the other formulation I found online: a quotation from that great visionary Calvin Coolidge. “The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” (Take that, welfare mom!)
To be fair, you can’t necessarily judge a person by their spare-time preferences. You can appreciate The Doors or Kurt Cobain without being a druggie wastrel. Your favorite culinary excess might be a trip to Al’s Frys for the quart with gravy and cheese. You might watch pro wrestling on TV. But, good grief, I can’t help but be a little bit disturbed by the Brian Dubie I see here.
Petitioners prowling parking lots and community college campuses tricked dozens of young Orange County voters into registering to vote as Republicans, an Orange County Register investigation has found.
. . .
In all, the Register called 348 registered Republicans in central Orange County and reached 90 of them. Of those, only 16 said they wanted to be Republicans. The rest told stories of fast-talking petitioners, some advertising free sunglasses if they signed.
So weasel welch … when are you and your radical right wing Republican …. ooops … that’s right … wouldn’t want to chase after real criminality when you can focus your rage on the likes of ACORN who did nothing more than empower so many folks our governments have worked so hard to dis-empower.
Oh yeah … where is that apology to ACORN? weasel welch … I’m still waiting.
Remember the May 1st health care rally at the statehouse for health care as a human right. S.88 has passed the house and is now back into committees before going up before do-less. Let’s tell the governor that we mean it this time and we support all the hard work the legislature has put into this bill to make health care a public good rather than a profit or loss statement.
The rally starts at eleven am gathering at the Montpelier city hall to march onto the state house lawn. Bernie will be there as well as bands and other entertainment. Let’s show this governor once and for all.
For those still seeking the first sighting of the elusive Spring Dubie replete in all its campaign plumage, Facebook only provides an unsatisfying glimpse:
Favorite Movies: The Omega Man
Favorite Books: Seek the Fair Land
Favorite TV Shows: Gunsmoke
Favorite Quotations: Press On
Well press on and one can find word that he will be headlining a symposium at the end of next month. The promo for the Vermont Tiger May event notes that “He [Dubie] has long been interested in new ideas and innovative policies to promote economic growth in Vermont and was a panelist at last year's ‘Compete or Retreat’ symposium.” Compete or Retreat indeed.
During the recent budget debate, Dubie was absent and didn’t preside over the State Senate for two days. That Dubie actually missed a chance this week to practice governing and deal with the very problems under discussion at the symposium is worthy of notice.
He also canceled a scheduled candidate debate appearance for April 28, featuring middle-schooler’s questions. The debate had already been re-scheduled once to accommodate him before he finally ducked it.
If it is true, as the overworked saying goes, that 80% of life is just showing up, how should we rate Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie’s campaign?
But the man who would be Waldo in the current Vermont gubernatorial campaign will ride a friendly Vermont Tiger on May 25th.
The symposium promises to be mostly free from the probing questions of 7th and 8th graders as it will cost $95.00 per person to attend. Dubie will deliver the morning address at the symposium called Crunch Time, which will deal with the “very serious and immediate economic challenges facing the state and discuss reforms and routes to prosperity”.
Judge not?
Sharing the bill with our Lt. Governor will be Fox News personality and former Judge Andrew Napolitano. The judge is a familiar face on Fox’s O’Rielly Factor and has substitute-hosted for Glenn Beck on occasion. Judge Napolitano led a Sept. 2009 Forth Worth rally in support of Glenn Beck’s 912 Project. A rally press release described the event:
The 912 March and Rally is a non-partisan event connecting friends and neighbors who are fed up with the direction this country is headed, want to preserve the U.S. Constitution and limit the government to the powers granted therein.
We encourage everyone to bring signs for the March with words showing their frustrations with the policies and direction this country is headed.
Will tea bags be part of Dubie’s campaign plumage this year?
(In keeping with GMD’s policy of front-paging diaries posted for state-wide office, here is the latest from Deb Markowitz. – promoted by GMD)
Every May, when the weather turns warm, I get the urge to do a little spring cleaning. It starts with the mud room. Piles of winter clothing, miscellaneous hats and mittens and ski equipment have to be sorted and put away. Then I end up cleaning closets when I find that there is no room to store the coats, boots and snow pants that I have just rescued from the mud room. Pretty soon the whole house is in an uproar, and after a long day of chaos we find order again – with a pile of things heading to Goodwill and an overflowing garbage bin.
It is hard to believe how much junk we can accumulate in just a year!
Every May we also do spring cleaning as a state. For the past 40 years–during the first weekend in May–Vermonters in every community observe Green Up Day.
Armed with large plastic garbage bags, we roll up our sleeves, put on heavy duty gloves, and head to the roadways, the rivers, forests and parks. I am always amazed at how much litter accumulates every year.
Saturday, 40 years after Vermont’s first Green Up Day, as many as 15,000 Vermonters will mobilize across the state to clean up roadways, parks and rivers.
Green Up Day is a great example of something that Vermonters do particularly well – come together, volunteering time and effort to make our communities better places. And, just like we do a spring cleaning in our homes, it is important to remember that if we don’t take care of our beautiful state no one else will!
Danielle Nierenberg is blogging everyday from across Africa for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog. She is also writing with her partner Bernard Pollack at her personal blog: BorderJumpers.
In Malawi, we visited the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, a project supported by companies like the Body Shop, providing sanctuary space for rescued, confiscated, orphaned and injured wild animals of Malawi. While touring their facility we met Kambuk (which means “leopard” in Chichewa), who was soundly sleeping in his 2,500 sq meter backyard of fenced green landscape. He was rescued by the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre after poachers shattered his knee in Nyika National Park (making it impossible for him to ever return to the wild.) As we toured the facility nearly every animal we saw – from baboons to alligators – had a similar Cinderella story of overcoming insurmountable odds to survive and, in most cases, return back to the wild.
The Center is one of the leading organizations in Malawi pushing lawmakers to enforce and enact legislation in support of wildlife conservation and environmental protection. They also develop local partnerships and training programs with the farmers and communities surrounding national parks. The struggle between protecting wildlife and agriculture is becoming especially evident as drought, conflict, and hunger continue to affect sub-Saharan Africa.
Malawi may actually be best known for its so-called “Malawi Miracle.” Five years ago the government decided to do something controversial-provide fertilizer subsidies to farmers to grow maize. Since then maize production has tripled and Malawi has been touted as an agricultural success story. But the way they are refining that corn, says Kristof Nordin who demonstrates permaculture techniques at him home with his wife, Stacia Nordin, makes it “kind of like Wonderbread,” leaving it with just two or three nutrients.
Most Malawians think of traditional foods, such as amaranth and African eggplant, as poor people foods grown by “bad” farmers. But these crops, being more nutritious and requiring less artificial fertilizer compared to hybrid varieties may hold the key for solving hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Malawi. Rather than focusing on just planting maize-a crop that is not native to Africa-the Nordins advise the farmers they work with that there is “no miracle plant, just plant them all.”
And indigenous crops can be an important source of income for farmers. Rather than importing things like amaranth, sorghum, spices, tamarinds and other products from India, South Africa, and other countries, the Nordins are helping farmers find ways to market seeds, as well as value added products, from local resources. “A lot of solutions,” he says, “are literally staring us in the face.” And as I walked around seeing-and tasting- the various crops at the Nordins’ home, it’s obvious that maize is not Malawi’s only miracle.
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Shut out during the shut down, as once again Entergy tries to control media access to a select few.
When independent documentary filmmaker and public television videographer Robbie Lepzer registered to film a public tour of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (VY), he expected it to be a rather standard process. After all, Entergy regularly admits the press and TV cameras for site tours. This tour, scheduled for Thursday April 29 is for members of the Public Service Board (PSB) and the media.
Leppzer’s shut out during shut down by Entergy has resulted in a PSB demand for information from Entergy as to why a journalist is not being allowed to film when other TV media is filming and has been filming. [Emphasis added.]
MEMORANDUM
To: Parties in PSB Docket No. 7600
From: Susan M. Hudson, Clerk of the Board
Re: Turning Tide Productions’ Request to Film Site Visit
Date: April 27, 2010
On April 27, 2010, Robbie Leppzer sent the attached e-mail to the Public Service Board (“Board”) requesting that the Board take action to allow Mr. Leppzer to bring television cameras to the site visit in Docket 7600 scheduled for Thursday, April 29. The Board requests that Entergy submit a response to Mr. Leppzer’s request by noon on April 28. In particular, the Board requests Entergy to address whether Entergy is permitting news organizations to have television cameras, as Mr. Leppzer indicates. If so, Entergy should explain why Mr. Leppzer is being treated differently from those news organizations.
The Board also requests that Entergy explain what, if any, restrictions on cameras are
necessary to ensure that Entergy fulfills its security and safety obligations.
Other parties may also submit comments by the same deadline.
cc: Robbie Leppzer
Leppzer has more than 30-years of documentary film making [see Leppzer’s resume below the fold]. In preparation for a documentary film on the relicensing of VY, he has been filming testimony presented to the Legislature and its committees since January when discussion of both the leak and Entergy’s request to relicense the nuclear plant began in earnest. Given that Vermont is the only state in the country to have the legal right to decide if VY should receive its Certificate for Public Good (CPG), it makes sense to me that someone would want to create a documentary about this subject. I also expect that Entergy would try to thwart such an effort.
At the very time Entergy is claiming a new policy of openness to Vermont State officials, boards, commissions, the legislature and the media, it has denied Leppzer permission to film the tour even though he is filming for CCTV Channnel 17 out of Burlington, VT in addition to his own documentary work. Leppzer may, as Entergy’s Smith informed him, may take the tour, but without any film equipment, a predicament that is challenging for a filmmaker.
Entergy’s action has once again put them in the spotlight in a negative way. After being shut out of filming, Leppzer contacted State Representative Sarah Edwards from Brattleboro, who is a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel. Edwards wrote to Entergy requesting that they reconsider their decision and give Leppzer equal access. Smith still denied Leppzer access, so at that time, Leppzer sent the entire packet of email correspondence, herein reproduced below the fold, to the PSB.
The PSB has given Entergy until noon today to explain why they are preventing Leppzer from filming.
More below the fold, including the entire email correspondence between Leppzer and Entergy’s Smith.
I first met Leppzer in January when he was filming testimony given to the Natural Resources Committee regarding leaks at Vermont Yankee, and have seen him, along with many other members of the media, at almost every nuclear testimony and event I have attended since January from hearings to the NRC meeting in Brattleboro on April 19.
I find the decision to exclude Leppzer as odd since this is a public meeting that includes the media. While NRC Region 1 Spokesperson Neil Sheehan has denied me permission to be on the NRC email list and claimed that Green Mountain Daily is not bona-fide media, even the NRC allowed Leppzer to film their workshop and meeting. [As NRC and Entergy should be learning, attempting to shut out the media only results in more press and more scrutiny.]
In prior public touring events, for example the Stakeholder’s Meeting and press conference, which Entergy hosted at Vermont Yankee on March 25, 2010, a member in attendance wrote that
multiple media outlets were granted access to photograph, film, and videotape the plant. The only restrictions on media coverage that day were that photographers could not shoot any of the security towers or security personnel. The media was walked from the Hunt House to the excavation area, then around the back of the plant to the area where dry casks are stored. Plant officials showed the media each of the well heads, including the drinking water well that had by then been removed from service. There were no restrictions on shooting any of these elements.
The PSB is having a formal public meeting tour because it is adjudicating a request by intervenors to shut down VY until the tritium leak, which was uncovered January 7, was stopped. Entergy maintains that the source of the leak has been found and stopped. The PSB, media, and intervenors were scheduled to have an opportunity to view the location of the leak on Thursday to see the repairs now that the leak has been stopped and the plant is shut down for refueling.
Leppzer appears to have followed every protocol required in order to film at VY, including registering with the Public Service Board, and filming for Burlington’s Channel 17 Public Access television in addition to using the footage for his own documentary. See the entire chain of emails in the PDF below.
Leppzer began writing to Entergy’s PR Staff members Rob Williams and Larry Smith April 8 regarding the Entergy’s science fair hosted April 12 at the Ramada Inn. On April 18, Leppzer wrote:
As I mentioned in a previous email, I’m directing and producing an independent documentary about nuclear power in the new millennium, highlighting the debate in Vermont over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. This will be a feature documentary intended for national broadcast on public television or a national cable network. My previously produced documentaries and commissioned magazine segments have been broadcast nationally on PBS, CNN, CNN International, Cinemax, Sundance Channel and HDNet.
On Friday, I spoke with Judith Whitney, Deputy Clerk of the Vermont Public Service Board, and she informed me that the site visit by the Public Service Board to Vermont Yankee on April 29 is open to the press and media.
Below is information on our documentary television crew members, in accordance with Entergy regulations for people visiting the site.
Shut out during the shut down, as once again Entergy tries to control media access to a select few.
When independent documentary filmmaker and public television videographer Robbie Lepzer registered to film a public tour of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (VY), he expected it to be a rather standard process. After all, Entergy regularly admits the press and TV cameras for site tours. This tour, scheduled for Thursday April 29 is for members of the Public Service Board (PSB) and the media.
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Update #1
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (together, “Entergy VY”),have determined to allow credentialed media, including Tuming Tide Productions, to take photographs of or film the areas to be visited during the site visit.
[See complete Downs, Rachlin, Martin response to the Public Service Board in last attached document.] Turning Tide Productions is Robbie Leppzer’s film company.
——-
Leppzer’s shut out during shut down by Entergy has resulted in a PSB demand for information from Entergy as to why a journalist is not being allowed to film when other TV media is filming and has been filming. [Emphasis added.]
MEMORANDUM
To: Parties in PSB Docket No. 7600
From: Susan M. Hudson, Clerk of the Board
Re: Turning Tide Productions’ Request to Film Site Visit
Date: April 27, 2010
On April 27, 2010, Robbie Leppzer sent the attached e-mail to the Public Service Board (“Board”) requesting that the Board take action to allow Mr. Leppzer to bring television cameras to the site visit in Docket 7600 scheduled for Thursday, April 29. The Board requests that Entergy submit a response to Mr. Leppzer’s request by noon on April 28. In particular, the Board requests Entergy to address whether Entergy is permitting news organizations to have television cameras, as Mr. Leppzer indicates. If so, Entergy should explain why Mr. Leppzer is being treated differently from those news organizations.
The Board also requests that Entergy explain what, if any, restrictions on cameras are
necessary to ensure that Entergy fulfills its security and safety obligations.
Other parties may also submit comments by the same deadline.
cc: Robbie Leppzer
Leppzer has more than 30-years of documentary film making [see Leppzer’s resume below the fold]. In preparation for a documentary film on the relicensing of VY, he has been filming testimony presented to the Legislature and its committees since January when discussion of both the leak and Entergy’s request to relicense the nuclear plant began in earnest. Given that Vermont is the only state in the country to have the legal right to decide if VY should receive its Certificate for Public Good (CPG), it makes sense to me that someone would want to create a documentary about this subject. I also expect that Entergy would try to thwart such an effort.
At the very time Entergy is claiming a new policy of openness to Vermont State officials, boards, commissions, the legislature and the media, it has denied Leppzer permission to film the tour even though he is filming for CCTV Channnel 17 out of Burlington, VT in addition to his own documentary work. Leppzer may, as Entergy’s Smith informed him, may take the tour, but without any film equipment, a predicament that is challenging for a filmmaker.
Entergy’s action has once again put them in the spotlight in a negative way. After being shut out of filming, Leppzer contacted State Representative Sarah Edwards from Brattleboro, who is a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel. Edwards wrote to Entergy requesting that they reconsider their decision and give Leppzer equal access. Smith still denied Leppzer access, so at that time, Leppzer sent the entire packet of email correspondence, herein reproduced below the fold, to the PSB.
The PSB has given Entergy until noon today to explain why they are preventing Leppzer from filming.
More below the fold, including the entire email correspondence between Leppzer and Entergy’s Smith.
I first met Leppzer in January when he was filming testimony given to the Natural Resources Committee regarding leaks at Vermont Yankee, and have seen him, along with many other members of the media, at almost every nuclear testimony and event I have attended since January from hearings to the NRC meeting in Brattleboro on April 19.
I find the decision to exclude Leppzer as odd since this is a public meeting that includes the media. While NRC Region 1 Spokesperson Neil Sheehan has denied me permission to be on the NRC email list and claimed that Green Mountain Daily is not bona-fide media, even the NRC allowed Leppzer to film their workshop and meeting. [As NRC and Entergy should be learning, attempting to shut out the media only results in more press and more scrutiny.]
In prior public touring events, for example the Stakeholder’s Meeting and press conference, which Entergy hosted at Vermont Yankee on March 25, 2010, a member in attendance wrote that
multiple media outlets were granted access to photograph, film, and videotape the plant. The only restrictions on media coverage that day were that photographers could not shoot any of the security towers or security personnel. The media was walked from the Hunt House to the excavation area, then around the back of the plant to the area where dry casks are stored. Plant officials showed the media each of the well heads, including the drinking water well that had by then been removed from service. There were no restrictions on shooting any of these elements.
The PSB is having a formal public meeting tour because it is adjudicating a request by intervenors to shut down VY until the tritium leak, which was uncovered January 7, was stopped. Entergy maintains that the source of the leak has been found and stopped. The PSB, media, and intervenors were scheduled to have an opportunity to view the location of the leak on Thursday to see the repairs now that the leak has been stopped and the plant is shut down for refueling.
Leppzer appears to have followed every protocol required in order to film at VY, including registering with the Public Service Board, and filming for Burlington’s Channel 17 Public Access television in addition to using the footage for his own documentary. See the entire chain of emails in the PDF below.
Leppzer began writing to Entergy’s PR Staff members Rob Williams and Larry Smith April 8 regarding the Entergy’s science fair hosted April 12 at the Ramada Inn. On April 18, Leppzer wrote:
As I mentioned in a previous email, I’m directing and producing an independent documentary about nuclear power in the new millennium, highlighting the debate in Vermont over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. This will be a feature documentary intended for national broadcast on public television or a national cable network. My previously produced documentaries and commissioned magazine segments have been broadcast nationally on PBS, CNN, CNN International, Cinemax, Sundance Channel and HDNet.
On Friday, I spoke with Judith Whitney, Deputy Clerk of the Vermont Public Service Board, and she informed me that the site visit by the Public Service Board to Vermont Yankee on April 29 is open to the press and media.
Below is information on our documentary television crew members, in accordance with Entergy regulations for people visiting the site.
——-
UPDATE #1 By the way if you look closely at Smith’s last email to Leppzer, you will
notice three items.
•First, it is clear that Smith is quite aware that Entergy is denying access to
Channel 17 CCTV Public Access TV.
•Second, note that many upper management personnel at Entergy are contacted, not
just site personnel as well as someone with Enexus. Isn’t Enexus defunct, or is
that another Entergy untruth?
•Third, Smith has copied their attorney Downs, Rachlin and Martin’s John Marshall. I
guess Smith was clearly anticipating litigation push back.
In Malawi, we visited the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, a project supported by companies like the Body Shop, providing sanctuary space for rescued, confiscated, orphaned and injured wild animals of Malawi. While touring their facility we met Kambuk (which means “leopard” in Chichewa), who was soundly sleeping in his 2,500 sq meter backyard of fenced green landscape. He was rescued by the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre after poachers shattered his knee in Nyika National Park (making it impossible for him to ever return to the wild.) As we toured the facility nearly every animal we saw – from baboons to alligators – had a similar Cinderella story of overcoming insurmountable odds to survive and, in most cases, return back to the wild.