Underheim E-mail Plugs Palmeri
In an e-mail message sent last night, Rep. Gregg Underheim, the Republican incumbent in the 54th District, asks UW-O students to consider voting for one of his opponents: Green Party candidate Tony Palmeri.
Underheim makes the pitch to in response to a move by Democratic challenger Gordon Hintz to highlight a statement made by Underheim criticizing students for caring too much about tuition.
Underheim also quotes a favorable May 2003 statement from Chancellor Richard Wells expressing appreciation for Underheim's efforts on behalf of the university.
Here's the Palmeri pitch:
Here's the full text of Underheim's e-mail:
You may be seeing an unprincipled attack leveled at me by my opponent Gordon Hintz at the end of the campaign. The attack will assert that I have said, "the only thing you care about is tuition. That is shameful." Or words to that effect.
It is true that words similar to that left my mouth. But, as with all unprincipled attacks, it was taken out of context. My comments also included references to quality and access. The thrust of my thought was that tuition cannot be the only consideration for students who want a quality education and for students who want a diverse student body that includes students whose abilities qualify them for a university education but whose financial means make attending impossible.
Please ask yourself this question. Do I really want a representative who willfully misconstrues comments made by others for his own benefits? Do I really want a representative who will incite anger rather than appeal to reason? I hope you don't.
Let me close with this thought. If you cannot bring yourself to support me, a republican, please consider voting for the Green candidate Tony Palmeri. Although I strongly disagree with Tony on a wide array of policy questions his campaign has not stooped to what I can only describe as distortion.
Quote from Chancellor Wells in a letter to Gregg Underheim dated May 16, 2003.
"The strong and involved leadership that you have provided for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh means a great deal to our present and future students. It was reassuring to see the value of higher education supported during this period of exceptional fiscal challenge. On behalf of the administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni, I extend our heartfelt and sincere appreciation for all that you have done for our campus..."
I ask for your vote On November 2.
Gregg Underheim
NOW FOR THE HUMOR!!!
A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert quotes" contest. They were looking
for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers.
Here are some of the submissions...
1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building
using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next
Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (This was
the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, WA.)
2. What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter.
(Lykes Lines Shipping)
3. E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be
used only for company business. (Accounting manager, Electric Boat
Company)
4. This project is so important, we can't let things that are more
important interfere with it. (Advertising/Marketing manager, United
Parcel Service)
5. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. No one
will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been
working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and
I'll let you know when it's time to tell them. (R&D supervisor,
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing / 3M Corp.)
6. My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that
only needed corrections. She claims the disk I gave her was damaged and
she couldn't edit it. The disk I gave her was write-protected. (CIO of
Dell Computers)
7. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say."
(Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
8. "How About Friday?" My sister passed away and her funeral was
scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died so that I
would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then
asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, "That
would be better for me." (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)
9. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not
going to discuss it with the employees." (Switching supervisor,
AT&T Long Lines Division)
10. We recently received a memo from senior management saying: "This is
to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the subject
mentioned above." (Microsoft, Legal Affairs Division)
11. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning
a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon
enough. He said "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited
until tomorrow to ask for it!" (New business manager, Hallmark
Greeting Cards.)
Underheim makes the pitch to in response to a move by Democratic challenger Gordon Hintz to highlight a statement made by Underheim criticizing students for caring too much about tuition.
Underheim also quotes a favorable May 2003 statement from Chancellor Richard Wells expressing appreciation for Underheim's efforts on behalf of the university.
Here's the Palmeri pitch:
Let me close with this thought. If you cannot bring yourself to support me, a republican, please consider voting for the Green candidate Tony Palmeri. Although I strongly disagree with Tony on a wide array of policy questions his campaign has not stooped to what I can only describe as distortion.
Here's the full text of Underheim's e-mail:
You may be seeing an unprincipled attack leveled at me by my opponent Gordon Hintz at the end of the campaign. The attack will assert that I have said, "the only thing you care about is tuition. That is shameful." Or words to that effect.
It is true that words similar to that left my mouth. But, as with all unprincipled attacks, it was taken out of context. My comments also included references to quality and access. The thrust of my thought was that tuition cannot be the only consideration for students who want a quality education and for students who want a diverse student body that includes students whose abilities qualify them for a university education but whose financial means make attending impossible.
Please ask yourself this question. Do I really want a representative who willfully misconstrues comments made by others for his own benefits? Do I really want a representative who will incite anger rather than appeal to reason? I hope you don't.
Let me close with this thought. If you cannot bring yourself to support me, a republican, please consider voting for the Green candidate Tony Palmeri. Although I strongly disagree with Tony on a wide array of policy questions his campaign has not stooped to what I can only describe as distortion.
Quote from Chancellor Wells in a letter to Gregg Underheim dated May 16, 2003.
"The strong and involved leadership that you have provided for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh means a great deal to our present and future students. It was reassuring to see the value of higher education supported during this period of exceptional fiscal challenge. On behalf of the administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni, I extend our heartfelt and sincere appreciation for all that you have done for our campus..."
I ask for your vote On November 2.
Gregg Underheim
NOW FOR THE HUMOR!!!
A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert quotes" contest. They were looking
for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers.
Here are some of the submissions...
1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building
using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next
Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (This was
the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, WA.)
2. What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter.
(Lykes Lines Shipping)
3. E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be
used only for company business. (Accounting manager, Electric Boat
Company)
4. This project is so important, we can't let things that are more
important interfere with it. (Advertising/Marketing manager, United
Parcel Service)
5. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. No one
will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been
working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and
I'll let you know when it's time to tell them. (R&D supervisor,
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing / 3M Corp.)
6. My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that
only needed corrections. She claims the disk I gave her was damaged and
she couldn't edit it. The disk I gave her was write-protected. (CIO of
Dell Computers)
7. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say."
(Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
8. "How About Friday?" My sister passed away and her funeral was
scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died so that I
would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then
asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, "That
would be better for me." (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)
9. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not
going to discuss it with the employees." (Switching supervisor,
AT&T Long Lines Division)
10. We recently received a memo from senior management saying: "This is
to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the subject
mentioned above." (Microsoft, Legal Affairs Division)
11. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning
a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon
enough. He said "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited
until tomorrow to ask for it!" (New business manager, Hallmark
Greeting Cards.)
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