FormerCoas.ter

the person hitting the street car on twitter by the name of @plumstplaypen is David Laing who is PG Sittenfeld's Director of Policy. According to Laing's Linkedin page, he worked for one john cranley: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-laing/4/183/589

Natininja and others - Thank you for the welcome. I think that the street car debate is still worth having, hence the fact that I occasionally read this blog. My belief is that it is a vast waste of scarce public dollars in bad economic times. However, one of my key reasons for leaving COAST is that the street car became the single object of obsession with that group's leadership. There are far too many subjects that conservative groups might target today to allow one issue to dominate 99% of any groups time and efforts, as became the case with COAST. My other reason for leaving that organization is the very low level of discourse that some COAST leaders are employing against their political opponents and their extended families. These types of attacks are unacceptable and do not reflect well on any group that employs them. I no longer wanted my name to be affiliated with COAST as a result. As I saw an ongoing discussion about R4HT I wanted to let you know that not everybody on the other side of the debate is so rabid and uncivil. Reasonable people may have reasonable disagreements, and may debate those disagreements in a civil manner. Thank you for hearing me out. FC

The poster above is partially correct in his statement of who runs republicans4hightaxes - it's Jeff Capell. Chris Finney doesn't directly contribute to the site. Chris whispers his ideas into Jeff's ear, who then puts them on the site. Chris is smart enough to keep his skirts cleans and makes sure that he can't be directly traced to the site in order to pretect himself from when the inevitable liable and defamation lawsuit(s) are filed over the posts there. Jeff Capell plays Cato Fong to Chris Finney's Inspector Clouseau in this (and other) regards, acting as Chris' Guy Friday. Do note that your IP is logged when visiting both the R4HT and COAST blogs. Jeff Capell obsesses with identifying the IP's of those who visit the sites so he can determine if the victims of his blog attacks are reading them. If he thinks that he has an IP identified he tags your IP with a name and can see when you have visited and he tracks your visits to the sites. He endlessly compares visitors back and forth with the COAST blog. If you are going to those either of those sites I would suggest that you do so through use of a proxy. I was a member and supporter of COAST for years, and I still believe in their core values. I left the group over its obsession with and fixation on the street car project (which I still oppose), and particularly because of the hateful personal attacks that are launched by a small number of COAST members primarily by means of R4HT, as well as, directly in the comments section of the COAST blog. I am devoting my activism to other groups since leaving COAST. Thank you for allowing me to post. FC