This is from the minutes of Planning and Transportation meeting, me attacking PC zoning

And this is a voice mail I left my neighbor and coreligionist the former Google exec and current Bridgepoint or something exec and Palo Alto planning commissioner Eric Rosenblum parroting back to me what “Google Voice” thinks I said to him about his mis-use of the concept of “privatization”; what I suggest is regulation; what he advocates is closer to libertarianism and is not “privatization” and you would think even with econ degrees, from Harvard and MIT that he knows better, so this is a ruse. Or just way too much Koolaid for him.

Hi Eric, Mark Wise. I can’t resist. That’s the I didn’t see the meeting. But the I haven’t seen the J be there, but the post quotes, too. Regarding. The term privatize issue, as it applies to downtown north parking and I think you miss use the term. With due respect, privatization wouldn’t be what happen in Chicago. Where, Ron Emmanuel, For example, someone paid a million dollar billion dollars to collect all the parking revenues for the next 50 years in Chicago. And I realize pokes it was worth ten. Expeditor’s for ten billion that’s stupid. That’s privatization. If We, the people. Some of them live. I’m Brian street in the first 300 box. 33 blocks wish to regulate that’s not privatization. That’s a regulation And I, don’t know why you’re on clear on that. But privatization. Is it internally more print issues, and separate matter here 2 floor, separate. Have a great trip talk to you later. Bye.

It reminds me of a Far Side by Gary Larsen about what we say to our dogs versus what they hear. It also reminds me of a Gary Trudeau about “democracy is dead”.

The headline refers to a Dickens book about French revolution. Clumsily but classically.

Regarding the photo of the transcript of my recent speech, I was quoting from things I had written in 2012 about “residentialists” — Tim Gray and I at the time, uniquely, and in deference to and reference to Enid Pearson not claiming to be her or speak for her — and “pc zoning” — and Tom Jordan please note advised both my campaign in 2012 and Tom D’s in 2014 on this point. Our problems did not begin with the PASZ slate and were not solved, not hardly, I would think or would NOT think, by the three-fourths success of that.

The slate did as much to falsely elevate Lydia Kuo as it did to diminish my campaign. The “new residentialists” might have taken all five seats if they embraced me not squashed me, unless that is my two weeks old grapes fermenting here. I would be on Council and not Corey Wolbach if not for the useful idiots like Hirsh, Lilienthal and them. But as my fellow Dartmouthite T.J. Rodgers would say: this outcome does not affect my beverage of choice. I am a son of a gun for beer.

edit to add: actually it was January 27, 1985 my 21st birthday, I clipped it out and taped it to my door but “Teaching is Dead” close enough for the internet.