Comments on: Taking Out The Gardage http://old.furiousnads.com/2006/03/taking-out-the-gardage/ You're furious. I never taught you to sing. You carry rocks in your head and pitch them. Without warning. Happy drunk. You're furious. I beg you for sin. I beg your skin. You buy a whore. Don't give her water. You're furious. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:25:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Metroblogging Portland http://old.furiousnads.com/2006/03/taking-out-the-gardage/#comment-94 Metroblogging Portland Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:04:29 +0000 http://furiousnads.com/2006/03/taking-out-the-gardage/#comment-94 <strong>Gard and Gerber</strong> The behavior of Ms. Burdick's firm is cause enough to not vote for her, in my book. Link to bix on the subject, via, well....b!x In my defense, I saw links to his essay on the subject, but chose not... Gard and Gerber

The behavior of Ms. Burdick’s firm is cause enough to not vote for her, in my book. Link to bix on the subject, via, well….b!x In my defense, I saw links to his essay on the subject, but chose not…

]]> By: The One True b!X http://old.furiousnads.com/2006/03/taking-out-the-gardage/#comment-93 The One True b!X Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:27:42 +0000 http://furiousnads.com/2006/03/taking-out-the-gardage/#comment-93 Here's another example of Gard's manipulation of reality, from the same article. <blockquote> "The people who don't like our work could argue that in the PUD (People's Utility District) spots, we looked for a place where public power resulted in higher rates and chose to spotlight only those," Gard said. "I'd argue that they said public power automatically meant lower rates." </blockquote> He may argue that, but it's patently false. Somewhere in the large collection of paper I still have from my years on <em>Communique</em>, I have campaign literature from the pro-PUD people. It includes a <a href="http://www.cheappower.org/2003_rate_chart.pdf" rel="nofollow">chart of electric rates</a> (pdf), showing public utility districts and private utilities. It includes PUDs whose rates were higher than those of private utilities. So, when Gard makes his argument, above, is he knowingly lying about what PUD proponents were saying? Or, back when he was fronting for private utilities, was he failing to do the job they were paying him to do, by failing to bother reading the material his opponents were distributing? Here’s another example of Gard’s manipulation of reality, from the same article.

“The people who don’t like our work could argue that in the PUD (People’s Utility District) spots, we looked for a place where public power resulted in higher rates and chose to spotlight only those,” Gard said. “I’d argue that they said public power automatically meant lower rates.”

He may argue that, but it’s patently false. Somewhere in the large collection of paper I still have from my years on Communique, I have campaign literature from the pro-PUD people. It includes a chart of electric rates (pdf), showing public utility districts and private utilities.

It includes PUDs whose rates were higher than those of private utilities.

So, when Gard makes his argument, above, is he knowingly lying about what PUD proponents were saying? Or, back when he was fronting for private utilities, was he failing to do the job they were paying him to do, by failing to bother reading the material his opponents were distributing?

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