Will organizations scramble to make the oligarchy list?
November 8, 2007 | Filed Under Funny (sheesh), not funny (ha-ha) | 2 Responses
Livingston’s favorite conspiracy theorist and losing City Commission candidate has updated her list of People Who Run This Town. For a very long time, that list, often referred to as the Oligarchy or the Triumvirate, included these favorites: The City Commission and City Manager, the Livingston Gallery Association (LGA), and the Livingston Enterprise. There were heavily dropped hints of a Lesbian Conspiracy a few years ago, too, astonishing in light of the fact that there are not enough lesbians in town to form a string quartet, never mind a Conspiracy. But those barely-veiled homophobic remarks never made it into the Enterprise Letters to the Editor, so this imagined oligarchy remained a triumvirate.
In what no one would mistake for a graceful concession or a move toward reconciliation and healing, the losing candidate sent the Enterprise a written statement yesterday that included this update on the Oligarchy:
“My only regret is that the community is still, basically, run by the same small group of organizations that was in place three years ago: the Gallery Association, CNR (Corporation for the Northern Rockies), the Stafford Animal Shelter.”
The triumvirate became a Quinumvirate with the addition of Corporation for the Northern Rockies (CNR) and the Stafford Animal Shelter. [What’s next? The City Commission meeting agenda is secretly set behind a vegetable stand at the CNR Farmer’s Market?] The Livingston Gallery Association seems to have maintained its enviable status. It isn’t exactly clear if the two new conspiratorial organizations were in addition to the LGA, or replacements for the City Commission and the Enterprise. It seems doubtful
that these favorite targets were supplanted, so let’s go with the update of the Triumvirate to a Quinumvirate.
There’s also a math challenge here. If these two new conspirators were “in place three years ago,” then wasn’t it a Quinumvirate all along? [I’ll leave puzzles like these to a new LOL mascot, the Puzzled Lemur at right. LogicEscapesMe-ur.]
For those who are not able to follow conspiratorial logic, let alone the math challenge just posed, the theory here seems to be that if anyone who serves our city has ever volunteered for, contributed to, or been on a board for an organization, then that organization Runs The Town. Considering that about 4,367 Livingstonians volunteer, contribute, and serve on boards, that might mean that the only folks who should rightfully have an influence in our town, are–heaven forbid–those dreaded “outsiders.” Considering our favorite theorist’s unbridled contempt for Nontanans, that poses a conundrum. Her theories have shot themselves, basically, in the foot. And a word to you Rotarians out there; don’t even think about serving in government! I basically mean it!
If you buy the notion that there is no such thing as bad publicity, then I would think every organization in town is very, very eager to make the list. The good news for them is that it is, basically, pretty darn easy.
The bad news for us is that two more excellent community organizations with good reputations just got added to what is rapidly becoming very much like, and as long as, basically, the Nixon Enemies List.
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Hmmm.
I see what you mean.
The freakin’ animal shelter!!!????
Amazing.