My opinion on the Consumer Constituency

[William Drake]

On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Adam Peake wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> As Milton is not currently the chair or in an official role for
>> NCUC (I don't think), I am not sure why NCUC needs to repudiate him.
>>
>> I am sure we all don't agree with what any of us writes and am not
>> sure that we need to write a repudiation every time someone says
>> something the NCUC doesn't agree with.  I would not expect the NCUC
>> was reading everything I wrote in my blog and deciding whether they
>> agreed with me or not or whether they needed to publicly rebuke me.
>>
>> Not making any personal comment on the content of this yet, since I
>> have not done the research.
>>
>> I would also be surprised and disappointed if anyone were to take
>> his personal words and his personal blog , whatever their
>> characteristics, as a cause for action against the NCUC.
>
>
> Unfortunately, people do associate Milton with NCUC. And as changing
> such perceptions is hard, it's best to just say he doesn't speak for
> us.
>
> And the post, in its substantive parts, does read like an NCUC
> position.

I think Avri's reply on the blog addresses this well.

BIll