Where To Look For The Truth, The Whole Truth

With The Marymount Plan, I intend to keep this blog as truthful as Dr. Brophy, Marymount's President asserted to me it is.

During the coming weeks and months leading to the November 2, 2010 General Election where voters will also find the Special Election for the Initiative offered in support of The Marymount Plan, I will publish all responses by Marymount to the (approximately) 62 differences between what is already approved with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project and what is contained in the Specific Plan Zone or The Marymount Plan's Initiative.

I will demonstrate objectively and truthfully that statements made by Dr. Michael Brophy and others representing Marymount College have been, in my opinion, deceptive, misleading, and less that fully truthful.

I will continue to offer to Marymount representatives the opportunity to produce responsible rebuttals to each and every point in the (approximately) 62 differences and provide those rebuttal issues on this blog.

When Dr. Brophy and others representing Marymount claim that The Marymount Plan can be constructed with "no taxpayer expense" that is a misstatement of fact and Dr. Brophy knows that.

He knows that because, in part, he is now offering to have Marymount funds, rather than taxpayer funds, pay the approximately $78,000 of costs for the Special Election on November 2, but he has not yet agreed to pay more than the college's "fair share" for the traffic mitigation stipulated in The Marymount Plan. After Marymount pays its "fair share" Dr. Brophy won't admit publicly that the remainder of the costs must be borne by the General Fund of Rancho Palos Verdes, a taxpayer-based fund.

Dr. Brophy has also not stated that the "36 month" construction timeline The Marymount Plan's advertisements have documented, would not only last 8 years with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project, but it could be an indefinite period of years, using wording in The Marymount Plan's 51-page Initiative.

Dr. Brophy and others have the opportunity to have their 'facts' posted on this blog including the fact that Marymount seeks to eliminate the voter-elected representative oversight and review of work being done at the College's Palos Verdes Drive East campus.

I expect to see fancy, colorful, yet not very informative mailers, ads, and commercials supporting a "Yes" vote on the Initiative, without much of the objective wording that illustrate the differences in The Marymount Plan from what has already been approved to build, by the City Council.

I feel our residents deserve more and better from an entity that claims to be part of a religious organization. I think our residents deserve the whole truth from Marymount College.

Unfortunately by looking at the mailers I received during the petition process, I doubt we will find more reasonable explanations from Marymount why it feels it must have ALL that it wants and nothing less than everything.....all without government review or oversight.

The real truth you probably won't ever hear or read from Marymount is that Marymount must have on-campus housing to remain open according to my assertion. Nothing short of that would allow Marymount attracting more wealthy parents of students who would send their kids off to school in a non-local, out of State, or out of Country institution.