Letter to the Editor

I would like to clarify some inconsistencies in Rebecca Gedda’s article which ran on April 4, 2004 regarding myself and the city over the business licensing and registration ordinances.  In the article, the respondent for the city is repeatedly referenced to be Dawn Cordle.  There is no quote appearing from Nadia Brahler, which is whom I spoke with at city hall and not Dawn Cordle.  Unless I am mistaken and I was actually speaking to Ms. Cordle disguised as Nadia Brahler I find it hard to believe that she can speak authoritatively to my experience at city hall.

The statements in the article by Ms. Cordle are as misleading and obtuse as the ones spewed by Ms. Brahler.  Ms. Cordle said that she could not provide me with information that is not specifically asked for because that would be illegal.  Yet, upon Ms. Cordle fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act request, I received and was charged for copies of an ordinance which I did not request and which had been repealed in it’s entirety by another ordinance.  That’s illegal!  Call a cop!

Ms. Cordle, channeling for Ms. Brahler I presume and without the aid of a crystal ball, went on to say that as far as the city is concerned, what “Mark McCoy” does for a living does constitute a business.  She was quoted as saying, “If someone provides a service or product in return for money, that’s a business.”  I would like to caution teenagers who baby-sit; kids who mow lawns or shovel snow; Ebay merchants; in-home transcriptionists and independent maid services, to name a few, to proceed post-haste to city hall and conscript yourselves to the all-knowing, all-defining, and omnipotent powers-that-be.

I did attend the most recent council meeting on April 12, 2004 and did at such time and place deliver a strident and cacophonous diatribe to the city officials.  This diatribe will air on cable channel 10, Wednesday, April 21 at 7:00pm and Thursday, April 22 on 11:00am.  I urge everyone to tune-in.

Mark McCoy

618-345-2981

314-591-1991

Fax 618-344-3831

chartley@yourjournal.com