We got this in response to yesterday's post on GD Southard:
SUBJECT: wrong forever
TO: claremontbuzz@yahoo.com
One day Glenn Southard will display the smallest sliver of humor or graciousness, and the planet will stop spinning on its axis. If you flipped him over and looked at the switch on his back, you would see his two settings: "Frothing attack" and "Off." What a miserable ****.
One thing's for sure: this and last week's Ellen Taylor story really point up the problem people wanting change face here in Claremont. It's not the Southards or the Taylors; it's all the people who blindly support them and make every possible lame excuse, every allowance for really ugly, inexcusable behavior without requiring any accountability.
These things crop up again and again, and the same folks in Pilgrim Place, in Claremont's United Church of Christ, at the Claremont Colleges, in the Rotary Club, at the Claremont Community Foundation, on city commissions and in City Hall say again, "Oh, that's just Glenn" or "Oh, that's just Ellen." (Yes, that's just the point, you fools!)
The naiveté of these blind followers is exactly what the Ellens in town count on to keep in power. And we continue to pay the price. Bullying some poor Girl Scouts trying to sell cookies should be no surprise. It should be expected given Ellen. But you can count on the a significant chunk of the good people of Claremont to make every sort of screwball excuse for Ellen's bad behavior.
That rationalizing is Claremont's original sin, pure and simple.
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