JERRY SMITH??

[KFERN]

Jerry Smith who are you? You attended The Chicago prius group meeting
at Grossinger Toyota And called corporate office to complain.
Saying that a dealer should not support a group with views on hybrids
such as Chicago Prius Group. Why dont you send me a message
or Chicago Prius group with your complaining.

[TonyPSchaefer]

I was just about to create a thread asking anyone in the Chicagoland area who has a subscription to the Sun-Times to check all their papers for the last week in search for this article/opinion/commentary.

I have to admit that I feel a little side-swiped from someone who I don't know in a paper I don't read referring to things I don't understand. Wayne and I - who are allegedly attacked in the article - feel that we should supply a rebuttal if only on our own website. But first, I want to know who's attacking me, why they are doing it, and what exactly they said.

[mrbigh]

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I was just about to create a thread asking anyone in the Chicagoland area who has a subscription to the Sun-Times to check all their papers for the last week in search for this article/opinion/commentary.

I have to admit that I feel a little side-swiped from someone who I don't know in a paper I don't read referring to things I don't understand. Wayne and I - who are allegedly attacked in the article - feel that we should supply a rebuttal if only on our own website. But first, I want to know who's attacking me, why they are doing it, and what exactly they said. [/b]

Probably a disgruntled Republican exasperated by the Obama political sign on display

[TonyPSchaefer]

Probably a disgruntled Republican exasperated by the Obama political sign on display[/b]

That'll teach us to no longer combine the Chicago Prius Group meetings with the Illinois Democratic Party.

The sign-in sheets simply asked:
Name
Email
Car model and year
Which Democratic candidate will you be voting for
Current mileage

Is that so wrong?

[MegansPrius]

LOL Tony.

Does anyone have a date on this? Is the author definitely "Jerry Smith?" I just searched Sun-Times archives via Lexus-Nexus and Access World News and didn't find anything other than the May 14th article on hypermiling which mentions Wayne and the Chicago Prius Group.

[TonyPSchaefer]

It's certainly post May 20th. I got an email from Wayne indicating that his local library has a week's worth of Sun-Times papers but he couldn't find it in there.

I went to the local library yesterday evening and searched through all the Sun-Times and Daily Southtown back through May 18, nothing. The editions I looked through were the city edition sports final so maybe a suburban edition/early edition would have it. Matter of fact, my Sun-Times article was not in the May 14th edition either, it was probably a filler for the early edition. [/b]

This whole thing is very interesting. I'm starting to care less and less with each hour.

[KFERN]

TONY YOU ARE SO FUNNY HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF RUNNING??
MAYBE GREEN PARTY?

[n8kwx]

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TONY YOU ARE SO FUNNY HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF RUNNING??
MAYBE GREEN PARTY?
[/b]

I'm guessing that Tony might vote for Barack Obama...

[Starfall]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KFERN @ May 29 2007, 06:03 PM) [snapback]451711[/snapback]</div>

Jerry Smith who are you? You attended The Chicago prius group meeting
at Grossinger Toyota And called corporate office to complain.
Saying that a dealer should not support a group with views on hybrids
such as Chicago Prius Group. Why dont you send me a message
or Chicago Prius group with your complaining.[/b]

Oh my God! Someone actually complained about a fantastically informative meeting about hybrids?

Someone complained about two Prius fans sharing their valuable knowledge about hybrid technology & how it could help us as well as our country in the future?

And, weirdest of all, someone complained about Grossinger's (whose job it is to sell cars, among them hybrids) being generous enough to let us meet at their dealership? And prepare & serve us food which they provided? And let us talk with their technician for however long we wanted?

Kevin, please don't listen! What you did was a service to our community & to the world at large. TJ began the tradition when Danny picked up his first Prius & you've continued this tradition respectfully. All of us who attended (minus this one "anonymous" Jerry Smith - that kind of tells you something) truly enjoyed the info & the camaraderie.

Please post the address we should write to in order to counter this person's misguided rant.

[KFERN]

I have done moved on there will always be people out their
who have opinions. I was upset only that this person went to
Toyota corp. to complain. Complain about education???