2007-10-10 Board of Ethics Minutes mc

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CHAIR: You say you've never met her? BERRY: You know, if I have you know, I think back years ago when I used to attend things for the County that had to do with the transfer stations and recycling and stuff, I think she may have shown up at a meeting or something. She really sounds familiar, and I've had people describe her, and I think I know who she is. But I don't know her. CHAIR: Did you know at the time when she wrote the letter that she was a member of the Planning Commission? BERRY: I got a sense of it, because of the way she was quoting in her in a sense, quoting like she named all these different, you know, things, and I thought and then when I asked somebody, they said, oh, she belongs to all these different you know, and she's part of the Planning Commission, and Igo oh, so now it makes sense, because obviously I must have hit on one of her pet peeves, you know, that she would take my purpose of the letter and completely change it over to something she had a peeve about, which obviously is zoning. I just I really found it malicious, almost like she doesn't even know this I mean, my friend's struggling enough as a small business person to make this thing a go, and here's somebody in the background just working it so it will fail. Well gee, it's not just the lenders, then. So that's I think, my last little sentence, paragraph (inaudible) I got sarcastic, but I really couldn't help it, in the second letter, thank you so much, Ms. Siracusa, for pointing out the zoning that was so far from what I had in mind when I wrote the original letter. I just thought it's very interesting how someone can take something, and twist it and bend it and run with it. She did it good job. So there you go. CHAIR: And do we have any questions? LCM: I have a comment on the definition of half - cocked. Everybody we all seem to be so the definition of I'm not defending anything. The definition of the word half - cocked simply means unprepared. MALANKA: What's that? LCM: Half - cocked simply means unprepared. It's really not negative. It doesn't mean blasting or angry or anything. It's just the old Winchester rifles had a little notch that you half- cocked, and that notch would wear and the rifle could go off unexpectedly. That's back to what the 1700's. So we somehow I think we (inaudible) but it just means unprepared, so I do think we have to be careful with that word, that it's not maybe it's the whole tone, but the word itself CHAIR: But there's a lot of words in the English language LCM.• - -I know, I know, it's different places CHAIR: - -that may take on a different context. And I think half - cocked today is L UM: - -has a negative connotation