Thursday, July 24, 2008

WHAT HAPPENED TO COMMISSIONER HUGHES'S POLL?

It appeared that the land use map was to be accepted for the county by the county commissioners.

Well wrong. It seems that Mr. Jeff Hughes, the County Commissioner- the honorable Mr. Jeff Hughes - wished to learn if Dearborn countians had any knowledge of the land use map. Thus he instituted a poll. The result was that the land map was tabled in November of 2007.

Now we know that Mr. Hughes is a well educated well intentioned and charming young man. We do not know what his background is in statistics and studies of demographics.

We have not been informed as to the company that determined the sampling of the citizens of the county, we have not been informed as to who was the statistician or what company did a statistical analysis of Mr. Hughes' poll.

Given that this is so important one wonders why a polling company was not hired to do this pole, expensive yes, but so was Viete.

One wonders why this has been such a cockamamie and rather secretive poll which resulted in the tabling of the work of many honest Dearborn Countians, that is the land use map. It must be born in mind that the land use map was not the final word, it was not The Word from on high carved in stone.

In any professional school this poll would have been unacceptable. The author of it would have been disciplined or discharged.

This complaint has been offered to the local newspaper, but the crusading editor has refused to entertain such question. Why?

Alan S Freemond, Sr.
Jackson Township

1 comment:

nwquad1 said...

“One wonders why this has been such a cockamamie and rather secretive poll which resulted in the tabling of the work of many honest Dearborn Countians, that is the land use map. It must be born in mind that the land use map was not the final word, it was not The Word from on high carved in stone.”

Because it doesn’t suit the plans of the movers and shakers in DC that’s why. I have asked Mr. Hughes in person about the plan’s timeline. Got a long-winded narrative but no direct answers.


“This complaint has been offered to the local newspaper, but the crusading editor has refused to entertain such question. Why?”

Those papers are a joke; you don’t think they will address any of the tough issues in DC.
The editor only feeds the lemmings the information that fits into their grand plans. The fleecing of the little guy. Get informed and involved before the county you know and love is gone forever.