Introductions's Fell Flat at The Elder's Holiday Dinner

Sault Ste. Marie, Mi...Introductions fell flat at the Dream Catcher's Theater Tuesday night where several hundred elders from the Eastern Upper Peninsula gathered to enjoy their annual holiday dinner. There was some speculation that all the old folks were just too tired to applaud.

However, the lack of enthusiasm was more likely brought on by other reasons. Over the years the elder's dinner has been a bell-weather indicating how tribal administration is doing and with that being the case, the McCoy administration isn't doing very well.

Chairman McCoy himself looked as though he wasn't doing well either. Perhaps the chairman needs to take a sleeping pill. He looked tired and disheveled and as though he was struggling to overcome something. Stumbling and bumbling at the podium while delivering his speech, the chairman didn't make much of an impression.

Vice Chairman Causley: well she was busy working the crowd. Tall and stiff, head held back a tad too far, she looked as though she was trying to live something down. Imagine that?

Director Boushor, he was there. Back and center. A few from his camp were with him. They had a fire going and were standing around it. They were overheard saying how they might sue the tribe to have it pay their legal bills...should it be so brazen as to appeal the 7+2 case. After all, they reason, they spent a half a million of their own money defending themselves. So certainly they're entitled to ask for it back. They were real happy however with how their expensive teams of lawyers manipulated the legal system and loved the message that the jurors sent out to their fellows citizens: if you're being harassed in your workplace it's all right to steal millions of dollars from your employer as compensation.

Director Pine was seen busily working the crowd too. Director Pine was.............seen back and center............?

Director's Malloy and Abramson visited their constituents...on the peripheral margins. Could it be they were avoiding the back and center. Very likely,yes it could? There's been noticeable divisions between the back and center and the front and center and the peripheral margin's lately. Some having speculated they're deep and may never heal. Oh, my...

Directors Massaway and Rickley. Of course, eh? Front and center, huh? Lovely twosome. Where else? You have to love them both and love the red shirts they wear to the dinners. What wonderful spirits they are. Neither of them left their seats except for a brief and enthusiastic appearance on stage to present a deserving constituent with a citizenship award. Aah that food was so gooood....

Who got the biggest hand...the food servers of course. Them and the cooks, they both did a wonderful job...and the rafters were made to rattled in their honor...the old folks had to reach deep, but they found the wherewithal to do it...

Alert, alert, alert...Chairman McCoy acting on behalf of all of his dear and loved constituents near and far and all across the grand sweep of this great nation, met the challenge and notified each and every one of them to be on their guard against inaccurate email messages...that they are being sent out on computers...ooh...and that they're not to be believed, says the savvy Chairman. Please, please he warns, call your directors first before you talk to anybody else...to learn the w h o l e truth about whatever.

About the other reasons for all those flat intro's...consider this half a dozen or so: within the last couple of years our intrepid directors have loss an eight million dollar casino. And they've subsequently re-upped for another Greek Giveaway. Isn't twice burned supposed to be the limit? The tribe has already had The Barge and Greektown...so what gives? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Don't forget the solar deal in Mexico. Yes, Mexico. What if something goes wrong with that deal. Will the tribe get its money back? Mexico isn't in the United States. It never has been...be careful where you're getting your info...okay?

Well, back to the Greek Giveaway. Mr. Gatzaros made only seventy million off Greektown. Rumor has it that director Boushor got a check every month in the mail under its letterhead. Moreover, it's been substantiated that other checks-in-the mail-deals are currently being offered...to who, to who else? to the the tribe's most wonderful and influential citizens of course...who else? Well....?

Of course there's good citizen director Boushor. He's still taking the tribe for everything he can get. He wants his legal fees paid by it now. He beat it out of two and a half million and he wants it to pay for his and his co-conspirators defense...just a mere five hundred thousand dollars more. Hardly anything to be concerned about, right? He deserves it, right? Right?

And of course the referendums. Former director McKelvie did a good job of collecting petitions to bring the Mexican deal to a vote...and former chairman Payment has likewise done a great job with the third go-around with Mr. Gatzaros...the new Greek Giveaway.

So it's no wonder the elders weren't happy campers at the dinner. Not only was there all that stuff mentioned above to give them heartburn...but they had to put up with all the tribal politicians in their faces...all the while they were trying to swallow their turkey. Could they be the reason why they weren't buying. Or was it that the politicians were pretending that all was honky dory and they weren't having anything to do with it? Very likely...

Politicians were bombarding them with all the reasons for them to be thankful to the tribe for all the wonderful things that it was doing for them and they just weren't having a darn thing to do with any of it...

...how ungrateful of those oldsters, eh?

Thank you, Charles Forgrave