In my opinion, this is an enormous learning experience for all members of Omni including people who are, at most, interested outsiders like me.  The lesson: Anything said to, or even in front of, a professional journalist is fair game for further scrutiny.  Anything!

It's not surprising to me that this professional journalist, working for an old-school publication, would focus on the permit issue as the one likely to generate the most heat, if not the most light.  It was predictable.

Omni people tend to be pretty open, generally a good thing.  But here we can see some potential downside.  I think the respective Omni leaders would be well-advised to discuss this event in depth, and develop a set of guidelines for dealing with the press, whether of the old or new school variety.

Just my $0.02.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla@riseup.net> wrote:

I should be clearer - we mentioned permits in passing, like "we are raising money to bring the kitchen up to code, and doing x to meet the fire code" but he didn't express any particular interest in that aspect.
L

> On Dec 25, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Matt came to Omni and Jenny and I gave him a tour. He also come to part of the delegates meeting. He never said anything about permits or the city. Jenny prob has his contact info. You give him much more credit than I am right now. If he was going to delve into the permits he should have let us know and talked to someone here first.
>
> I can take the docs to the city if you explain exactly where they need to go.
>
> Love,
> Laura
>
>> On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:48 AM, David Keenan <dkeenan44@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If anyone has spoken with Matt Artz or anyone at the Oakland Trib, could you let me know?
>>
>> As part of his due diligence as a reporter, he is contacting all sorts of bureaucrats downtown at the City about our permit situation and as a result I am getting avalanches of emails from the City, there is confusions all around generally and so I would like to speak with him if at all possible.
>>
>> It's not his fault - I know he's just doing his reporter thing - but because of inquiries I will now need someone totally reliable I can email who can and printout a very large stack of paperwork and bring it downtown to 250 on Friday 12/26 (tomorrow). If there are any volunteers who are in town?
>>
>> Happy Xmas!
>>
>> David
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