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This story’s making headlines all over the place, but no one really has the words he spoke yet. Joe Klein decided to stand up and make a statement when given the Small Business Person of the Year award a few days ago. Good for him, but in the meanwhile, the rest of us are left to hear a bunch of opinions on what he said. . . not what he said.
Democrat & Chronicle: Business
Joe Klein could have accepted the applause of his peers and smiled for the cameras the other day when he was named businessperson of the year by the Small Business Council of the Rochester Business Alliance. Instead, he decided to break a golden rule he heard again and again growing up: to never humiliate someone in public. The chief executive of Klein Steel Service stepped to the podium and delivered a blistering, personal attack on labor union leaders, state lawmakers, trial lawyers and others he sees as chiefly responsible for the problems facing New York, its business community and residents.
Everyone’s commenting on it. YorkStaters, the Post Standard, UpstateBlog.com. . . it’s all over the place. But if you can’t judge what the man said, then how can you judge what the man’s done? What’s to talk about? He said a bunch of stuff that raised a few hairs. Bravo for that, at least, because the situation needs a bit of shaking up. But for all I know, he could have been advocating the use of hot dogs as floatation devices in airplanes. I don’t have the text of what he said, and apparently neither does anyone else.
There are people commenting on the D&C about how grand he is for taking a stand. What did he take a stand for? What the hell are you talking about? Were you there? Like I say, I’d love to give kudos to someone who takes a stand, but I’d feel real stupid if he took a stand to say, “DragonFlyEye.Net sucks ass!”
Mr. Klein, if your reading this (ha!), please post what you said somewhere the rest of us can read it. Heck, I’ll even post it on this site, even if I hate everything you say, just to have it on record.
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The Syracuse Post-Standard goes into a little more detail about his comments, including his swipe at Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver for allegedly “protecting a rapist”:
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business-5/1161334726216860.xml&coll=1&thispage=3
OK, I read that, too. I guess my point is that he seems to have been making some point which ultimately gets lost in the article. They say, for example, that he complains about Unshackle Upstate, buy why? How does it suck? I can think of many ways, myself, but I want to know what his opinion is.
Taking a swipe at a sex offender, well, that’s obviously not what he was there for, not what *really* offended most of the people there and not the cause of the stir. I want to know what he wanted to *say*, not just little things he said.
while i agree it’s important to know his actual words, they’re not necessary to support the spirit of what he did.
he basically stood up in front of at least a few of the leaders he criticized, face to face, and spoke what he perceived to be the truth. and from the reaction, at least the general tenor of his remarks rang a bell with much of the public.
personally, i think the fact that that aid pled guilty to sexual harassment essentially speaks for itself, making his criticism valid. the guy pled guilty. it’d be a different thing if klein made unfounded allegations, or kept hammering the aid after an innocent verdict. not lost on me is the fact that the state paid $500,000 to defend a man convicted of sexual misconduct.
I guess for many of us, the spirit of rebellion (so to speak) is enough. Certainly, this story’s getting a hell of a lot of press, and the feeling that a wind is blowing through the state this election year is palatable.