September 18, 2006
I love New York
I love Maine.
And I love New York, too.
So much so that I'm headed there at the end of the month for a 10-day, 120 mile hike on the Northville-Lake Placid Trail through the heart of the Adirondack Mountains.
I'm expecting it to be a beautiful walk amid some fine wilderness country at the peak of autumn colors.
But more on that later.
I bring up the "I Love New York" thing today because of the boiling controversy involving Dann Lewis, Director of Maine's Office of Tourism, his wife, and the license plate they have on one of their vehicles that reads "ILOVENY."
What's the big deal you ask?
Exactly.
Nothing!
But apparently we have one too many persons in this state that have too much time on their hands and is directing (or misdirecting as the case may be) their ire at Dann Lewis.
Get over it. And get a life. Please.
Facts:
Dann Lewis and his wife have lived in New York and therefore have some history and ties to the place. They, like everybody else with a shred of emotion in their bodies, were deeply affected by the horror of September 11th. And they've chosen to display their remembrance of 9/11 and their love for the people of New York by their Maine vanity plate "ILOVENY."
Good for you!
Another thing: The vehicle which carries said plate is registered as a private, personal vehicle.
Mr. Dutson, said troublemaker and busybody from Searsmont, apparently has no respect for the terms private or personal. Or he wouldn't have made such a public fuss over such a stupid, trivial thing.
Now would you sir?
Dann Lewis is a public servant, yes. And that role just happens to be the state director of tourism.
But he and his family deserve the respect of at least a modicum of privacy in their personal lives.
Get off it Mr. Dutson and leave these poor people alone.
Now, if you don't mind, I think I'll don my New York Yankees ballcap and take a drive up through Searsmont to see what's going on upcoast...
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I cannot thank you enough.
I was called down to New York on 9/16/2001 to be with a friend who, in my mind, was in terrible trouble. She was working with the first responders at Ground Zero as a disaster Phychiatrist, and the people she was trying to help (fire fighters)were agonizing over the fact that there were no survivors. During that 6 hour drive to MY HOME TOWN, I wanted to do something to demonstrate and memorialize my pride and my love for the kind of people that actually risked their own lives to get people out of those burning buildings. So goes the license plate. There is simply nothing more to this story. Nothing whatsoever to do with Maine. By the way, I love Maine too....
Carey, how could it have lead to this, an AP event? I need to have some peace. You gave me a measure of that tonight. Again, I say thank you. I will keep my plate forever....it's my small and terribly insignificant part of remembering.
Thanks again - Sherry
Posted by
sherry lewisSeptember 18, 2006 08:03 PM
Sherry-
Did you write this email?
Subj:Lawsuit
Date: 4/5/2006 7:58:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: sherryl@suscom-maine.net
To: NardelliR@Aol.com
CC: Dann.Lewis@Maine.Gov
Prepare for an onslaught of lawyers that are involved in the defense of the MOT, WKP, and NMC.
Your “anthrax” letter has been validated by methods that you are totally unaware of. You should have carefully considered the consequences before you made such a sloppy mistake in judgement.
But Rudy, that is the history of your entire life. You are a miserable failure. GET IT? FAILURE. I’LL SAY IT AGAIN……TOTAL FUCKING FAILURE.
Dann and I, for over 35 years attempted to be your friend, when others warned us that you would bite us too…….you have, and you will pay dearly. I will mention: Richard Ferrelli, Reggie Troncone, Ira Boyer, Bill Siegel, TWA, UsAir, Tannen, All the Ad Agencies that you contacted here in Maine when you “guaranteed they would get the account based on your long standing relationship with Dann”. Rudy you are a fucking liar.
Your so-called “friends” will be dragged into this; is that what you envisioned?
How could you have done this? Do you have any idea the points you would have won if you had sent a message of empathy? Of Course not, this is Rudy Nardelli, victim, for over 50 years, self-absorbed, interested in no one except Rudy.
You have now bitten off far more than you can chew.
Again, there are major law firms involved in this one. Glad you enjoyed the blog.
Again, we ask how in the hell you can sleep.
Sherry and Dann
Posted by
Lance DutsonSeptember 18, 2006 08:32 PM
You know, Lance, I think we've all read that email so often that we're outright sick of seeing it. You're starting to look a bit frayed around the edges.
We've all read that letter.
Mrs. Lewis lost her temper. Imagine that. Nobody even knows the background info about the matter - which - we can surmise- is PERSONAL.
Have you ever gotten mad at anyone? Would you like to see your temper fit posted online?
This all started as a problem with pay-per-click. But there was no wrong-doing there. So you had to come up with something else.
Baseball tickets! Wow. the MOT received several baseball tickets with their full page ad...
Just as does every single other Red Sox customer who places full page ads.
I emailed you and told you that. Other people have told you that.
Yet you continue to rave about these tickets.
You claimed that you have posted the entire phone message from Sherry Lewis. But the Lewis's have repeatedly denied this and claimed there was much more - I.E: when Mrs. Lewis broke down and cried.
This would have garnered sypmpathy for Ms Lewis.
What else?
Ah -Swanky digs in NY. Which just happen to be a small studio apartment belonging to a very dear old friend of 35 years. When this friend is in Maine, she stays at the Lewis's place.
Criminal, huh?
You've been told this, - you know it's true.
But there you go again. Sure looks like lies ....when you know the truth, that is.
You've now made accusations about conflict of interest with an RFP and a position on a bidder's team.
You have in your posession a paper which would probably clear up the entire matter. It was in with one of your many FOAA requests (which are currently costing Maine tax payers tens - even hundreds - of thousand$ of dollars.)
Yet you refuse to post that paper.
It might make Mrs. Lewis look like an intelligent, sane, honest adult.
You are attacking a private citizen with a dedicated hatred and viciousness that might only be attributed to someone with a serious psychotic tendency.
Thousands of people have rallied behind you, in support of your first amendment rights. They have put their time and their reputations on the line.
Yet you have used this immunity to viciously attack defenseless people who never did you any harm.
There's something very wrong here...and very evil.
Posted by
OutsiderSeptember 18, 2006 11:02 PM
Linda Hutchins- 'Outsider', what you've said here is patently untrue.
I'm not going to mess this poor guy's blog up with any more of this, people who are interested know where to find the facts.
Posted by
LanceSeptember 19, 2006 07:58 AM
Well, of course you don't want to see any activity on someone else's blog, since you can't delete the comments with which you don't agree.
I did some more snooping - curious about how all of this got started.
Here it is, folks. Ready?
It seems that Mr. Dutson was hired as 'webmaster' for the Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville Chamber of Commerce's website....coincidentally enough, right about the time that his wife was appointed as acting director of this Chamber.
(But I'm SURE there's no cronyeism or conflict of interest there - right, Lance? Did you get any Camden little league baseball tickets?)
But that's not the interesting point. The astonishing fact is that, while "mastering" this site, he somehow concocted an insane story about the MOT's "Hijacking" of small businesses' Google hits by the MOT.
In this story, he disguised the whole (truly) crazy composition as a news release, referring to himself in the third person.
He then - are you ready for this??....
He then POSTED IT, UNAUTHORIZED, on the CHAMBER of COMMERCE's WEBSITE!!!
Digest that one for awhile, folks. Do you have any idea what kind of a nut might possibly do such a thing? (Do you know what a "Troll" is?)
My chin was on the floor when I heard that one.
And there's more...
That vicious "threatening" phone call to Mr. Dutson's wife by the publicist....it was just an astonished query:
"Why are you slamming the MOT on your public web site??!"
(Apparently, the Chamber never even noticed the "Article" which was hidden in a link for "News Releases" )
The MOT publicist was amazed, since nobody before or since could ever imagine such a non professional and truly weird act by anyone, let alone a serious webmaster.
Any so-called "Professional" who would do such a thing would hopefully be excused as having had a nervous breakdown.
Unsurprisingly, shortly thereafter, Mr Dutson was no longer working as webmaster for the Chamber of Commerce - (go figure...)
What happened next? Was he justifiably blacklisted? Is that why he has developed this psychotic hatred for the Lewis's?
(Who had nothing to do with WKP's unspeakably ill-advised lawsuit)
When WKP sued Mr. Dutson, they brougth Dutson right up to their own level.
(Now, that's P.R!)
What has ensued is a very strange situation indeed.
Did anyone see the movie "Being There" with Peter Sellers?
http://course1.winona.edu/pjohnson/h140/being.htm
The only difference is that Chauncey Gardiner was a nice man.
Posted by
OutsiderSeptember 28, 2006 05:01 PM
I used to be "Outsider"... seems like a million years ago now.
I'm posting a link to the true story about Dann Lewis on every Google hit.
This is only Chapter One:
http://truthaboutlewis.blogspot.com
But there will be more to come. I remain convinced that the truth will soon be everyday knowledge.
Posted by
Dann Lewis's friend - OutsiderFebruary 26, 2007 05:59 PM
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