Friday, June 17, 2005  Taxpayer's League Disintegrates    At
6:55 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...  Why would they withdraw
the lawsuit due to public pressure? What kind of gutless
unprincipled life do you lead? I have no knowledge of the merits
of the League's position, but kudos to the League for taking a
stand and not cowering to angry rich people and clueless
coddling news media.  At 9:07 AM, Blogger Fred said...  There is
some merit to the League's complaints, as best I can tell.
However, one should resort to a lawsuit as a last resort, not
start off with one. Why wait until a project is ready to break
ground before making an issue out of a couple developments that
most people, including the Board and membership of the
Taxpayer's League, are in favor of?  As far as public pressure:
If other attempts to remedy the situation had failed, then more
people might have supported the lawsuit, again as a last resort.
I get the impression the majority of rank and file members of
the League oppose the suit, although