In past posts, I've been very critical of the NC Museum of Traditional Pottery - the crowd that puts on the annual Seagrove Pottery Festival . . . because of the dismissive/snotty, arrogant behavior I've witnessed FIRST HAND over the years (as a once dedicated pottery-hopper) . . . behavior that culminated in a spilt right down the middle of the Seagrove Pottery Community.
I think that the lawsuit Phil Morgan & company filed against the Seagrove Board of Commissioners is especially inane and stupid . . . potentially damaging to the entire community . . . but hey, that's just my opinion.
Well, maybe not just my opinion.
Someone named "Ellen" left a nasty on the August Housecall's post which criticized the lawsuit - where I said:
Trust me Phil, sue Seagrove and the only people winning anything will be the lawyers. It's petty, vindictive and moronic. Ms Quinn might rack up the billable hours, but you will look like a greedy idiot. Grow up. Get real. Shut up and throw some pots. Promote your show (you have the advantage of tradition). No real damage has been done . . . yet.
Now this very sage advice (based on sad experience) apparently offended Ellen (one wonders who she's "buds" with) . . . and she left what I can only assume she thought was a "cute/smart" retort:
Trust me Mary, sue Randolph Hospital and the only people winning anything will be the lawyers. It's petty, vindictive and moronic. Your lawyer might rack up the billable hours, but you will look like a greedy idiot. Grow up. Get real. Shut up and practice what you preach!
Apples and oranges, sweetie. In my case we're not talking about pots - or receipts from a festival whose organizers shot themselves in the foot.
No. We are talking about real damages . . . about a career irreparably altered . . . about lives endangered or lost (not just in Asheboro). We're talking about A DECADE of non-existent oversight, gross negligence and malignant, criminal indifference to the law as it is written and should be practiced/enforced.
My response (holding back):
Who should I ask you to give my regards to? Phil? Bob? Eblin? Schmid the Elder?
Ellen, as a victim of the "petty, vindictive and moronic", I am sick and tired of being told to sit down and shut up.
FYI, I grew up long ago. I have NO intention of suing Randolph Hospital. They've wanted me to do that since I brought the perjury (NO statue of limitations)/contempt/fraud to the attention of their lawyer and BOD several YEARS ago (I'll note Morrison and Eblin still have jobs). Nothing would make them happier than for me to get bogged down in civil court in Randolph County.
No ma'am. If I sue anybody it is going to be as the SORRY, WORTHLESS, CORRUPT state of North Carolina (after all the changeling administrations are sworn in) . . . most specifically (but not limited to) DHHS and the NC Medical Board - for failing to practice what they preach . . .
. . . and that would be protecting the patients and physicians/public servants of North Carolina from greedy, ignorant, arrogant sexist HACKS-in-suits.
I've been told I have a REALLY good case.
I wonder, Ellen, how much nicer/safer/economically stabler the world might be right now if, from Asheboro to Raleigh to Washington to Wall Street, justice and ethics were more than just mealy-mouthed rhetoric - and it actually started in our own backyards. What would happen if people like our district attorney and sheriff and police chief (not to mention our Attorney General) did the right thing simply because it was the right thing . . . as opposed to sucking up and/or knuckling under to those deemed "very important" by others who fancy themselves important.
Who knows? If I file a lawsuit against the state, maybe the citizens of Asheboro will finally wake up and figure out that they've been taken for a very expensive ride . . . by the mill-town healthcare executives who put style & pretty buildings before substance & primary care doctors/patients.
I might even manage to get a few laws changed . . . so that what happened to me (and/or the innocents caught in the crossfire) does not happen to anyone else.
It's got to STOP being about who you know.
Apples and oranges, Ellen. Before you stand up and tell someone else to shut up - think about what you're REALLY saying.
Where Phil & company are concerned, I did.
I feel better now.
2 comments:
"Apples and oranges, sweetie"
Pity poor Ellen, she does not know "manure" from shineola.
Pottery is one thing, having your career stolen from you is something else altogether.
Indeed. And thanks. I needed that.
Ellen made it crystal clear who she runs with and what she values.
I just don't play on the same "team".
I am SOOOOOOO sick of this garbage.
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