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Originally Posted by SecretAgentMan
Whenever I am interviewed by the media, I use my real name. On this forum I use a pseudonym because it allows me to express my personal opinion, and occasionally share information that I wouldn't be able to otherwise. The only difference is that you can't connect my real name with my pseudonym. You've made some valiant efforts to guess, but you have been way off base. I know it is driving you crazy, but you will probably never figure it out; and even if you do, I will never confirm.
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And of course the danger in this is that there are a lot of insiders who have direct (working for Capital Metro or contracting there) or indirect financial interests at stake -
who might, let's say, have a financial interest in making it look like CM could continue down their path of further investment in commuter rail without endangering the city's urban rail project because their bread is buttered at CM, not at the city. Even though they are fundamentally incompatible - to the point where one of Brewster McCracken's proposals during the urban rail run-up was to wrest control of Capital Metro's capital budget from them.
(Note that planning for the urban rail project is being done partially under the auspices of the 1/4 cent program - money that CM has already announced they will now not be paying the CoA as promised. I think the city's urban rail plan will be impossible to achieve without some capital participation from Capital Metro).
Again, anonymity is fine - but not when used to undermine those who have the courage to be non-anonymous, and certainly not when done with some kind of presumption of insider status.