John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative brainstorming and sociological writing from an environmental-protection-minded and crime-deterrence-minded, law-enforcement-minded, alcohol-free, lifelong non-Christian, conservative left-wing single adult gentleman who is also a direct descendant of Rev. William Brewster--Head Chaplain on Mayflower, religious leader at Plymouth, and adviser there to Governor William Bradford.

Monday, December 31, 2018

SOME FOOD PRODUCTS I RECOMMEND: A TENTATIVE MODERN-RELIGION (MY ONE-MEMBER-ONLY AND NON-CHRISTIAN, IMPLICITLY-DEISTIC 'PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION') TESTIMONIAL FOR EACH OF THESE ITEMS ON SALE IN AMERICAN SUPERMARKETS:

---Post "Wheat 'N Bran Shredded Wheat" cereal features zero grams of saturated fat per one-and-one-fourth-cup or 59-gram serving (and minimizing consumption of saturated fat, rather than the total fat per se, is what medical doctors emphasize these days), zero grams of cholesterol per serving, zero grams of sugar per serving, and zero grams of sodium per serving.

This Post cereal product also offers 7 grams of protein per serving.

All of the vitamins and minerals in this very nutritious cereal product derive naturally from the cereal's whole grain wheat and wheat bran ingredients. This means there are no vitamin or mineral additives, which is very rare in an American cereal product.

The cereal features eight grams of dietary fiber per serving, seven of which are insoluble.

One serving of this cereal by itself (not including the milk poured over the cereal) offers the following respective percentages of your daily minimum dietary requirements for each cited vitamin or mineral: Potassium, 7 percent; Calcium, 2 percent; Iron, 10 percent; Thiamin, 15 percent;
Riboflavin, 4 percent; Niacin, 15 percent; Folic Acid, 4 percent; Phosphorus, 20 percent; Magnesium, 20 percent; and Zinc, 10 percent.

Post's cited address is: Post Consumer Brands, LLC, Lakeville, MN, 55044, USA.

This particular cereal is a "product of Canada", the box of cereal mentions.

More information about this very impressive cereal product can be found by visiting Post's website addresses of: "postconsumerbrands.com" and "postshreddedwheat.com".

Otherwise, you are invited by Post to contact the Post company weekdays at their toll-free phone number of 1-800-431-POST (7678), according to a printed statement on the side of each box of that cereal product.

---to be continued.

A NEW YEAR'S EVE SEMI-FICTIONAL EAVESDROPPER'S REPORT FROM NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, IN THE YEAR 2018, AS IMAGINED BY A FORMER RESIDENT OF BOSTON CURRENTLY RESIDING IN TEXAS

---"I find it ironic that you are proposing a toast featuring a glass of vodka that was produced in Russia. Are we celebrating Russian infiltration of the American political system as we ponder which additional evidence of Russian meddling in American society will occur in the New Year?"

---"I think we should celebrate the New Year by establishing a non-profit organization that publicly honors and rewards each of the for-profit corporations in the United States that strive the most diligently to protect the global environment and help reverse the Global Warming Effect. If you were to survey New Yorkers on the street, probably 8 out of 10 would not know which corporations deserve praise for being Friends to the Environment."

--"I find it very frustrating that I have not heard the Democrats offer any convincing public-policy counterplan to 'The Wall' as our nation's way of preventing illegal emigration into the U.S. by Latin Americans. What are the alternatives to the Wall that might be less costly and more successful?"

---"I have heard that the chicken tamale is quite popular among Hispanics during the Holiday Season, but why not make it a turkey tamale instead? Turkey is lower in saturated fats and higher in protein than chicken is. So why can't we find a turkey tamale anywhere in New York, when it makes perfect sense to eat one?"

---"I don't know of any fast-food restaurant chain other than 'Boston Market' that adequately promotes turkey. Maybe I should find the phone number for the American Turkey Council, or whatever that organization is called, in order to complain about the anti-turkey bias by the American restaurant industry."

--"I'm one New Yorker who would welcome turkey pizza, but I don't recall seeing that in any of the pizzerias of my neighborhood. Maybe I should do a Google search in which I pose the question, 'Which pizzerias here in New York offer turkey pizza on their menu?'"

---"Maybe we could find a millionaire here in New York to sponsor a contest in which leading chefs from Italy are each invited to develop a new Italian-style culinary dish featuring turkey as a leading ingredient. This might help to convince our city's Italian-Americans to eat more turkey. The heart-attack rate among Italian-Americans could decline dramatically if they ate more turkey dishes."

---"I procrastinated all December on writing my New Year's resolutions, so it's obvious that one of my resolutions when I finally get around to writing them will be to procrastinate less often than I did in 2018."

---"Maybe there's a need for a new book here that publicizes real-life cases of honorable New Year's resolutions that Americans actually did achieve. This would serve as an antidote to the cynicism that so many New Yorkers have toward New Year's Resolutions. 'You make them, then you break them,' so many will say with a smirk on their face. A book about New Year's Resolutions that are actually achieved would be a feel-good book that 'Reader's Digest' editors might like quite a bit. 'Reader's Digest' loves optimism, tangible cases of forward progress, and happy endings."

---"To me, the most tragic aspect of Russian society is that they have no place for dissent in their country. If you disagree, you get poisoned to death. That is Putin's warning to all Russians. Russia has an urgent need for a museum or research library in that nation that highlights or studies the role of dissent in development of responsible and innovative policies by a nation."

---"If Russia were more like Sweden in welcoming responsible and civilly-stated dissent, the entire world would benefit. Russia would become more peace-loving and harmonious with democratic nations such as the U.S."

---"It is hard to explain why the Russian psyche is somehow incapable of embracing dissent. The Swedish devotion to making full use of dissenting opinions is one of the reasons why Sweden is a much more resourceful nation than Russia is."

--"The fact that the Politburo is not currently sponsoring a study to identify new ways in which Russian Government could politely make more effective use of dissenting opinions, tells you a lot about their style of government. The concept of co-leadership is alien to Vladimir Putin. He must be the all-controlling leader, as he sees it, and he is unwilling to invite other Russians to play a play a leadership role of their own that offers a vision and style differing from his own."

---"I wish I could remember the most optimistic play written by Shakespeare. I keep recalling that essay by that famous Irish playwright who stated that Shakespeare was too pessimistic in his plays. Maybe if I could study the most optimistic play ever written by Shakespeare, I wouldn't be so haunted by George Bernard Shaw's warning about Shakespeare being too bleak. The last thing our world needs is more pessimism and despair!"

---"Maybe we should sponsor a George Bernard Shaw Theater Festival here, in order to celebrate his more optimistic vision. Or is there already a George Bernard Shaw Theater Festival tradition here?"

---"As much as I admire Ireland, when I imagine actually living there I don't know what I would eat. No turkey, I don't believe, and here in the States I eat turkey quite frequently. Maybe I could establish an Turkey Import House business in Dublin and hope that Irish tastebuds would become more receptive to turkey with time. But this is all based on the assumption I can relocate to Dublin, even though I don't speak a word of Gaelic."

---"You mention Putin, yet I myself don't know who the leading expert on Vladimir Putin is in American academia. To me, that Expert on Putin should be getting a lot more public recognition in the American news media than they currently are getting. We need to know exactly why Putin pursues one policy or another, and what influences him in his leadership style. For instance, what was Putin's father or mother like? I don't recall seeing any feature story in The Times that profiled the father and mother of Putin and Putin's childhood, which might offer Americans invaluable insight about who he is today."

---"I wish President Trump would put more emphasis on recycling. For instance, he could give a televised State of the Union address warning that the Russians appear to be recycling items such as glass and aluminum at a higher rate than Americans do. Trump could then declare in that speech that it's very urgent that American society catch up with the Russians in that category. Inadequate participation in recycling by Americans is one of the worst messages our country offers to the entire world. It's disastrous, in fact, from a public-relations standpoint. 'American society wastes natural resources at a higher rate than any other nation', people all over the world are understandably complaining on a year-round basis."

---"One book project that I believe could result in a prize-winning documentary movie would profile the life stories of several of the real-life cases of individuals through the decades who each chose to take a fatal flying leap from the Empire State Building. Each of those mini-biographies, as they might be called, could explore what led to the point at which that individual went insane or deranged and committed suicide in a very shockingly public manner."

---"I wish I had the statistics on the percentage of our city's high school students who have been willing to make at least one 911 call to NYPD at some point during their high-school years. I realize that they often fear violent reprisals from other teenagers if they make a phone call of that type. But maybe there's a good response to that concern. If so, NYPD could hire a 'Public High Schools Liaison' who gives a videotaped speech explaining why high school students in New York are perfectly safe if they call 911 in order to report possible crime evidence or a medical emergency they had or observed or heard about."

SOME PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION BRAINSTORMING FOR THE NEW YEAR

As the only current approved member of the non-Christian and drinking-alcohol-free "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", I would like to offer the following tentative public-policy-related ideas toward societal progress in 2019:

---The U.S. President could establish a Presidential Commission on Alternatives to Plastic Products and Disposal of Plastic Products in an Environmentally Harmonious Manner.

---Research could be sponsored and financed to identify or develop environmentally-safe alternatives to use of plastic in everyday household products such as milk jugs, fruit-juice jugs, plastic glasses, etc.

---A proposed new Constitutional Amendment could be approved that authorizes any city or county or state to permit ANY apartment complex owner in that city, county, and state to require that any and all persons residing or visiting at that particular apartment complex are forbidden from ever at any time smoking or consuming any tobacco product or consuming an electronic cigarette anywhere on the premises of that entire apartment complex.

---A proposed new Constitutional Amendment could be approved that permits any employer to ask applicants for employment there whether they currently consume any tobacco product, with the employer having the option of then preferring to hire applicants who do NOT consume ANY tobacco product. In this way, employers throughout the USA can be legally permitted to reward applicants who do NOT pursue that type of flagrantly self-destructive conduct.

---A traveling Renewable Energy Strategies Educational Workshop and Exhibit could be offered in as many American cities as possible. The intent would be to help promote greater interest in research and development of renewable energy sources in as many cities and towns and rural areas as possible.

---The scope of history-theme museums and other museums in the USA could be expanded to include exhibits on the history of renewable energy development and energy conservation in that city, county, or state.

---A study could be sponsored to determine which of the currently contaminated lakes and rivers of the United States could be most successfully "revived" or restored to greater environmental quality than at present, and could even become lakes and rivers where it might someday be safe to actually swim there.

---A national Continuous Crimes Reporting Hotline could be established that invites any and all American citizens or residents of the United States to call that hotline phone number at any hour of the day or night and report evidence they had observed or heard rumors about that a cited individual was being victimized by alleged continuous personal-injury-crimes in an American city, county, or state.

----A Continuous Crimes symposium could be sponsored in several cities or counties of the United States, with one intent of that symposium being to increase awareness by the general public and by law-enforcement agencies about how to identify when a continuous felony personal-injury crime is, in fact, occurring in their city or county or state.

Saturday, December 29, 2018

MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR CHARLIE BAKER ON DECEMBER 29, 2018, AT ABOUT 10:57 P.M. CENTRAL TIME RECEIVES A POLITELY WORDED SAFE-HOUSING INQUIRY THAT WAS SUBMITTED ONLINE AT GOV. BAKER'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE ADDRESS OF "https://www.mass.gov/forms/email-the-governors-office" BY A GAINFULLY EMPLOYED AND PERMANENTLY DRINKING-ALCOHOL-FREE (EVER SINCE THE LATE SUMMER OF 1990), DEPENDABLY CIVIL AND LAW-ABIDING, LIFELONG-TOBACCO-FREE AND ANTI-TOBACCO-MINDED, ANTI-MARIJUANA-MINDED, SINGLE-BY-CHOICE, LONGTIME-CELIBATE-BY-CHOICE, ADULT BRITISH-AND-GERMAN-AMERICAN ANGLO MALE FORMER MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT ---MYSELF, JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 IN THE STATE-CAPITAL CITY OF TEXAS

Dear Distinguished Governor of the Bay State,

Do you believe that the State Government of Massachusetts has a moral imperative to support and promote safe housing conditions for anyone residing as a rent-paying official tenant at an apartment complex (regardless of whether that complex is located in another U.S. state) that's owned and managed by a corporation headquartered in your own state?

I look forward to your reply on this. I might add that I myself am a certified direct descendant of the Rev. William Brewster, the great Puritan religious leader who resided in what is now the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

EAVESDROPPER'S REPORT FROM NEW YORK CITY, AS IMAGINED BY A FORMER RESIDENT OF BOSTON NOW LIVING IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

--"Whenever I wait for a subway car, I am invariably attempting to decide whether the individual 10 yards away from me at the subway station is a Psychopath or a Sociopath. This is one of those criminology distinctions that all of us face at 6 a.m. in the morning here. According to the guidebook on criminology from Time-Life that I recently purchased, the Psychopath has no sense of right or wrong, while the Sociopath has a sense of right or wrong, but is capable of pursuing immoral conduct without any sense of restraint. I get so confused about whether the subject I am gazing at is the latter or the former, that I often flip a coin at the subway station in order to get the right answer. Heads tells me they're a Psychopath; tails tells me they're a Sociopath."

---"One of my hobbies is to tape-record for posterity each of the chiming clock towers we have in New York. During my leisuretime I walk all over town, adding to my audio recordings collection that I feel confident a historian of our city will someday be very grateful for."

---"If you asked me where the nearest bowling alley is here in Manhattan, I would be completely stumped. I would have to Google that one, and even then I wouldn't believe the answer I get until I actually locate that bowling alley with my own eyes. I don't bowl, so it puts me at a disadvantage on that subject."

---"I think it's perfectly fair for you to list 'Unpaid Tourism Guide' on your resume, since you get dozens of questions from visiting tourists every week. My only suggestion would be that you change that to 'Volunteer Tourism Guide', to give the impression that you do it out of love for humanity, since all of your impulses as a New Yorker are eternally philanthropic on a 24-hour-a-day basis."

---"Besides which, it makes good business sense to answer questions when tourists pose them to you. New York urgently needs as many tourism dollars as we can get, and you as a New Yorker benefit financially through the trickle-down effect on your own pocketbook whenever dollars are spent here by tourists."

---"Am I the only one who discovers at least once per week that when I'm gazing out of my apartment bedroom window, I see some guy gazing back at me through binoculars from a window in the apartment building facing my unit? It is one of the most unnerving things that ever happens to me here, so much so that I always get this creepy feeling that I'm being stalked. My first impulse is to dial 911 and beg NYPD to investigate, but then I sense the dispatcher will just laugh at me and ask me why I refer to a pair of binoculars as if it were a lethal weapon. Then the dispatcher would tell me that unless I can prove that there is a gun attached to those binoculars, my complaint is not pertinent for NYPD. The dispatcher might even add that I should be very grateful that anyone in this city finds me interesting enough to gaze at me through binoculars. 'At least you're not getting ignored in our city,' the dispatcher might then have the audacity and callousness to snap at me before hanging up his end of the phone line."

to be continued

Thursday, December 27, 2018

CITY: AUSTIN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER GOODE HAD ROLE IN COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER'S SILENCE RE: DOES SHE SUPPORT SAFE HOUSING CONDITIONS FOR ME?

From: John McMillan

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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2018, 12:33:33 AM CST

Subject: Fw: City: Asst City Mgr Goode had role in CM Alter's silence re: does she support safe housing for me

A respectful FYI to each of you public officials and civic leaders on all of this (below),

from Austin City Council District 10 resident John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

My most recent rental-apartment-unit address at Village Oaks Apartments on a continuous basis ever since early September 2017: 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.

My home phone: (512) 342-2295.

My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com

Subject: Fw: City: Austin Asst City Mgr Goode had role in CM Alter's silence re: does she support safe housing for me

(EXPLANATORY NOTE from myself, Austin City Council District 10 resident John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin:

Copies of the cited legal documents that are found below, PROVIDED IN DESCENDING CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FROM FIRST TO MOST RECENT E-MAIL, were each emailed to me in attachment form by the City of Austin Law Department's Public Information Requests (PIR) Team on February 17, 2017. That reply from the City Attorney's Office was in direct response to a February 3, 2017-dated e-mail public-information request (last item, below) from me that I had submitted to the City Government of Austin. The City of Austin-assigned identification number on that February 2017 public-information request of mine was: 32250.

The City of Austin Law Department's Public Information Requests Team's office phone number is (512) 974-2268. Their address: 301 West 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701.

PLEASE NOTE THAT Mr. ROBERT GOODE IS THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER OF AUSTIN WHOM MY DULY-ELECTED "DIRECT-REPRESENTATION" CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 10, Dr. ALISON ALTER OF MY DISTRICT, CHOSE TO REPEATEDLY CONSULT BY E-MAIL IN RESPONSE TO A "YES"-OR-"NO"-type PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FROM ME.

THAT PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION, WHICH I HAD POLITELY SENT TO COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER BY E-MAIL ON JANUARY 16, 2017, RELATED TO HOUSING CONDITIONS FOR ME IN AUSTIN.

Council Member Alter, a Harvard University-trained and Stanford University-trained public-policy expert, is a distinguished member of the highly-esteemed Temple Beth Israel Reform Judaism religious congregation. Their synagogue is situated relatively close to the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

MY VERY BASIC JANUARY 16, 2017, PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FOR COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER HAD BEEN: DOES COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER SUPPORT FREEDOM FROM CRIME FOR ME ON A 24-HOUR-A-DAY BASIS INSIDE MY LOCKED BEDROOM OF MY BOLT-LOCKED APARTMENT UNIT?

ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROBERT GOODE PRESIDES OVER PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN. Mr. GOODE ALSO PROVIDES OR DIRECTLY SUPERVISES A STAFF LIAISON FOR THE "AUSTIN ENERGY" CITY OF AUSTIN ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT.

Mr. GOODE'S JOB DUTIES APPARENTLY DO NOT INCLUDE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT. THAT RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH AUSTIN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER REY ARELLANO, A FILIPINO-AMERICAN GENTLEMAN WHO PREVIOUSLY PRESIDED OVER CITYWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT THERE.

THE MOST RECENT E-MAIL RESPONSIVE TO MY FEBRUARY 3, 2017, PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST, FINAL ITEM BELOW, WAS WRITTEN BY KYLE CARVELL, A HIGH-RANKING CITY OF AUSTIN OFFICIAL WHO ASSISTS AND REPORTS TO AUSTIN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROBERT GOODE.)

____

From: Alter, Alison

Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:56 PM

To: Goode, Robert

Subject: FW: 1-16-17 urgent question for my new rep. on the City Council

"Any further guidance on this?"

____________

From: Goode, Robert

To: Alter, Alison

Subject: RE: 1-16-17 urgent question for my new rep. on the City Council

Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 5:04:00 PM

"I recommend that you stay silent and not respond."

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On Jan 28, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Alter, Alison wrote:

"Robert, Can you please provide further guidance to my office on how to respond to this gentleman? I know you had advised me that city officials were aware of this matter and to not respond. I was not aware that my staff was also receiving these messages until now."

"Thanks,

"Alison Alter"

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From: Goode, Robert

To: Alter, Alison

Cc: Rivera, Osiel; Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt; Diaz, Elaine; Carvell, Kyle

Subject: Re: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue

Date: Sunday, January 29, 2017 10:13:47 PM

"I see a few options. 1) continue with silence...however, he may still send out emails berating you for that silence. 2) reply. Since he has stated that he has been assualted, you could refer him to APD. You certainly can't investigate his claims, so you should refer him to the correct agency to handle these claims. If you choose alt 2) I can find the correct contact for the referral.

"With that said, I'm guessing that either alternative will still lead to continued communications for awhile. But, if you refer him to APD, the next time he contacts your office, you can stay with that path and just repeat that your office can't investigate his assault claims.

"I will get you a contact for APD and relay that to you."

Robert Goode

Assistant City Manager

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From: Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt

Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 1:25 PM

To: Rivera, Osiel; Diaz, Elaine; Carvell, Kyle

Subject: RE: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue

"Kyle,

"Thanks for your follow‐up phone call on this the other day. Do you have a specific person/phone number we should refer him to with APD?

"Best,

"Kurt Cadena‐Mitchell
"Policy Advisor
"Austin City Council Member Alison Alter, District 10
"512‐978‐2207"

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Carvell, Kyle

From: Carvell, Kyle

Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 2:55 PM

To: Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt; Rivera, Osiel; Diaz, Elaine

Cc: Goode, Robert

Subject: RE: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue

"Kurt,

"According to my colleagues here in CMO, you can refer Mr. McMillan to the APD Crisis Intervention Team, Sgt. Michael King for follow up. We will contact Sgt. King and ask him to call Mr. McMillan on the Council Member’s behalf, if you like?

"Thanks,

"Kyle"

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS THE CITED JANUARY 16, 2017, E-MAIL LETTER FROM ME THAT APPARENTLY PROMPTED REPEATED CONSULTATION OF ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROBERT GOODE BY MY DULY-ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 10, Dr. ALISON ALTER:)

From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]

Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:12 AM

To: Alter, Alison ; Rivera, Osiel ; (and numerous other cited recipients, including to then-Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley at an e-mail address of "Brian.Manley@ausps.org" that I was provided at that time by a City of Austin official).

".....Council Member Alter, your temporary assistant, Osiel Rivera, did helpfully state to me on January 12 (2017) or January 13 (2017), during a phone call I made to your City Hall office, that he himself supports full freedom from crime for myself inside my locked private bedroom ---a private bedroom where I ALWAYS sleep ALONE on a bed I myself own, I myself being a longtime-celibate-by-choice, single-by-choice, always-sober (no alcohol consumption or any illicit-drug consumption) and lawfully-nonChristian gentleman --- on a 24-hour-a-day-basis inside my current two-bedroom, two-bathroom rental apartment unit in northwest Austin (an apartment that I currently share with one total official roommate, a strictly-platonic new roommate for me who is an older gentleman....).

"In my phone conversation with your temporary assistant Mr. Rivera, he also stated to me that he could not speak for yourself on that cited issue.

"Council Member Alter, do you yourself also agree with Mr. Rivera's very recent statement to me on that very important quality of life issue for myself?"

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(Explanatory note: the following is my revised and corrected public-information request to the City of Austin, a revised request that I emailed to the City on February 3, 2017, with the City officially identifying that request from me as PIR number 32250.)

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From: John McMillan

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Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017, 1:24:25 AM CST

Subject: correction Fw: PIR re: City Council Member and Harvard Govt PhD Alison Alter

Friday, February 3, 2017

Dear Public Information Coordinator for the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from the City Government of Austin a copy of any and all letters or e-mail letters or

e-mail notes that at any time since or including December 1, 2016, were written by a City Manager's Office staff member or official and were then mailed or sent or e-mailed to District 10 Austin City Council Member Alison Alter or District 10 Council-member-elect Alter or District 10 City Council candidate Alter, or to a staff member of hers, and that, in each such case, directly referred in some manner to myself, District 10 resident John Kevin McMillan.

This public-information request was prompted by a disclosure that Osiel Rivera, a polite male assistant to Council Member Alter, made to me on the telephone at about 4:13 p.m. Monday, January 30, 2017, from Dr. Alter's City Hall office in downtown Austin.

In that phone conversation this Monday, Osiel Rivera stated to me that an individual employed in the "City Manager's Office" in downtown Austin had written and sent an e-mail to Council Member Alter's office earlier that same Monday that directly referred to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

Mr. Rivera declined to identify to me the name of the author of the cited e-mail note about me that reportedly originated this Monday from the City Manager's Office in downtown Austin. In response to a polite question from myself, he stated that Ms. Alta Ochiltree was NOT herself the author of the cited e-mail letter about me this Monday that originated from the City Manager's Office.

Also in our phone conversation this Monday, Mr. Rivera indicated to me that the cited January 30, 2017, e-mail letter from the City Manager's Office had apparently requested that Council Member Alter refrain from writing and sending this particular law-abiding and gainfully employed single adult male constituent of hers, John Kevin McMillan, a reply letter in response to a question I had myself written and also stated orally and posed to herself.

That question from me, in approximate form, had politely and very simply asked Council Member Alison Alter whether she supports my own legal right to myself enjoy full freedom from crime on a 24-hour-a-day and year-round basis inside my locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked rental apartment unit situated in District 10 of Austin.

On Monday, January 23, 2017, Osiel Rivera of Council Member Alter's staff had in fact stated to me on the telephone at about 5 p.m. that day that he would ask "Kurt Cadenas", a cited permanent staff member for Council Member Alter, to write and e-mail to me a note that replied in writing to the above-cited public-policy question about my own housing conditions in District 10 that I myself had posed to Council Member Alter.

As of 11:03 p.m. this Tuesday, January 31, however, neither Austin City Council Member Alter nor any of her staff members have sent me any reply letter or made any return phone call to me that responded in any way on behalf of Dr. Alter to that one primary question I had myself politely posed to her in writing and on the telephone earlier this month.

Thank you in advance for your prompt reply note to me, providing me with a copy of any and all applicable legal documents.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

from John Kevin McMillan.

Home address ever since late September 2015:

Village Oaks Apartments (a northwest-Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by a for-profit corporation that is itself headquartered in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.

Home phone: (512) 342-2295.

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Monday, December 24, 2018

WIT AND WISDOM FROM NEW YORKERS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, AS IMAGINED BY A 1980s RESIDENT OF THE BOSTON AREA WHO GOT BANISHED TO TEXAS

---"I'm trying to convince President Trump to help finance a massive gymnasium and athletic club for all United Nations delegates and their families. If all UN delegates had quick access to first-rate exercise facilities at this UN compound, this could enhance their medical and emotional health and foster a 50 percent increase in the level of harmoniousness among delegates at the General Assembly here."

---"It must be overwhelming if you work at the UN this time of the year. You're under heavy pressure there to know how to say 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays' in 100 different languages. You have to be a linguistic genius to be socially adroit under those circumstances."

---"The best way to find out if you're popular in New York is to count up the number of Holiday Season party invitations you get. This year I had zero invitations, one less than last year. So I can only conclude that my popularity rating in New York has declined 100 percent from the year before."

---"I think everyone knows of at least one taxi driver they don't want having their home address. So what most of us do is just give the driver a street intersection about five blocks from where we live. This denies the driver my physical address, which protects my personal safety. I admit, though, that I still have nightmares in which I am suddenly facing this thug inside my home who loudly informs me that he got all my personal info just from giving me a taxi ride."

---"If your taxi driver has a Russian accent, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's a Russian spy. Some of the taxi drivers with Russian accents are not paid by the Russian Government to spy on us New Yorkers."

---"I used to submit story ideas to Newsweek magazine on a frequent basis. But these days if I do something like that, I might as well be making a financial donation to the Church of Scientology. Next thing I know, I get a phone call and the caller asks me if I am ready for my Church of Scientology-sponsored personality test. Or is it the Church of Scientology that Newsweek was bought out by? Maybe I'm thinking of the Washington Times, but even there it may be the Unification Church, and not the Church of Scientology, that currently owns the Washington Times newspaper. What I need is an online website that clarifies for me in plain English which religious group owns which newspaper or magazine. That would help me to determine whether I have a prayer's chance of getting good factual info from that publication."

--"Whenever I run into anyone from the Jehovah's Witnesses world headquarters here in New York, I want to ask them point blank, 'So what exactly did you witness with your own eyes and ears?'"

---"Just think of the thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses around the world who pay an annual pilgrimage to New York by visiting their world headquarters here. That would make a fascinating feature story for The Daily News: the big boost to our city's economy that comes from those pilgrimages to New York from Jehovah's Witnesses around the world. I don't know of any other religion that can claim to have its global headquarters here. Maybe the City of New York should sponsor a billboard sign declaring something like: 'A Warm New York-style Welcome to Each of You Jehovah's Witnesses from Around the World Who are Visiting Here! And Please Remember to Spend as Much of Your Money as Possible During Your Stay! That Money Will Go Toward The Noble Cause of Helping to Feed The Residents of Your Friendly Host City, Many of Whom are Starving!'"

----"I'd be afraid to visit Clearwater, Florida, since I'm worried that some recruiter for the Church of Scientology would knock on the front door of my hotel room and ask me if I was happy with my current personality."

---"One of the nice things about living in New York is that when you travel to other states, everyone assumes you are ultra-sophisticated. I have to explain to them that I can't afford to visit the museums here, so I'm still the simpleton I was when I relocated here from a small town in Connecticut."

---"One way to oppose lack of transparency in the White House is to insist that your elected officials for your own city, county, and state each publicly release their own most recent federal income tax returns to the news media. If enough elected officials at the local and state levels show that type of commendable accountability to the general public, President Trump might reluctantly agree to do something similar."

---"January is the month I dread the most, since it's the month when I'm suffering a hangover from all the money I spent on presents in December. Plus, January is the month when I start getting my W-2 forms that remind me that I've got to pay my income taxes for the preceding year as soon as possible. January is also a very slow month for my line of business as a restaurant waiter, since customers have no leftover money to spend after the Holidays."

---"Maybe there should be a new website that is exclusively dedicated to posting blogs from private citizens about which Christmas present they got was their all-time favorite, and why. This might promote greater empathy and selectivity by present-givers. As everyone knows, New York has one of the highest rates of any city for the number of residents who take the Christmas present they got back to the store in order to demand a refund or exchange for another present."

Sunday, December 23, 2018

THE ONE TOTAL JANUARY 16, 2017, E-MAILED PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FROM ME TO MY DULY-ELECTED DISTRICT 10 AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, THE HARVARD-TRAINED AND STANFORD-TRAINED PUBLIC POLICY EXPERT Dr. ALISON ALTER, THAT PROMPTED HER AND STAFF MEMBERS OF HERS TO WRITE SEVERAL E-MAILS SEEKING LEGAL ADVICE FROM AN ASSISTANT AUSTIN CITY MANAGER FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE WHOSE JOB DESCRIPTION APPARENTLY DOES NOT DIRECTLY RELATE TO THE TOPIC AREA OF MY QUESTION, WHICH WAS: 'COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER, DO YOU SUPPORT FULL AND YEAR-ROUND FREEDOM FROM CRIME FOR ME ON A 24-HOUR-A-DAY-BASIS INSIDE MY LOCKED PRIVATE BEDROOM OF MY BOLT-LOCKED RENTAL APARTMENT UNIT IN NORTHWEST AUSTIN?'

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. ROBERT GOODE IS THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER OF AUSTIN WHOM MY DULY-ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 10, Dr. ALISON ALTER, CHOSE TO REPEATEDLY CONSULT IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO THIS PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FROM ME.

THAT PARTICULAR CITY OFFICIAL PRESIDES OVER PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN. Mr. GOODE ALSO PROVIDES OR DIRECTLY SUPERVISES A STAFF LIAISON FOR THE 'AUSTIN ENERGY' CITY OF AUSTIN ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT.

Mr. GOODE'S JOB DUTIES DO NOT INCLUDE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT. THAT RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH AUSTIN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER REY ARELLANO, A FILIPINO-AMERICAN GENTLEMAN WHO PREVIOUSLY PRESIDED OVER PUBLIC SAFETY FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.)

From: Alter, Alison

Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:56 PM

To: Goode, Robert

Subject: FW: 1-16-17 urgent question for my new rep. on the City Council

"Any further guidance on this?"

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From: Goode, Robert

To: Alter, Alison

Subject: RE: 1-16-17 urgent question for my new rep. on the City Council

Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 5:04:00 PM

"I recommend that you stay silent and not respond."

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On Jan 28, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Alter, Alison wrote:

Thanks,

Alison Alter

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From: Goode, Robert

To: Alter, Alison

Cc: Rivera, Osiel; Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt; Diaz, Elaine; Carvell, Kyle

Subject: Re: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue

Date: Sunday, January 29, 2017 10:13:47 PM

"I see a few options. 1) continue with silence...however, he may still send out emails berating you for that silence. 2) reply. Since he has stated that he has been assualted, you could refer him to APD (Austin Police Department). You certainly can't investigate his claims, so you should refer him to the correct agency to handle these claims. If you choose alt 2) I can find the correct contact for the referral.

"I will get you a contact for APD and relay that to you."

Robert Goode

Assistant City Manager

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Thanks for your follow‐up phone call on this the other day. Do you have a specific person/phone number we should
refer him to with APD?

Best,
Kurt Cadena‐Mitchell
Policy Advisor
Austin City Council Member Alison Alter, District 10
512‐978‐2207

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Carvell, Kyle

From: Carvell, Kyle

Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 2:55 PM

To: Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt; Rivera, Osiel; Diaz, Elaine

Cc: Goode, Robert

Subject: RE: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue

"Kurt,

"Thanks,

"Kyle"

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS THE CITED JANUARY 16, 2017, E-MAIL LETTER FROM ME THAT APPARENTLY PROMPTED REPEATED CONSULTATION OF ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROGERT GOODE BY MY DULY-ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 10, Dr. ALISON ALTER:)

From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]

Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:12 AM

"In my phone conversation with your temporary assistant Mr. Rivera, he also stated to me that he could not speak for yourself on that cited issue.

"Council Member Alter, do you yourself also agree with Mr. Rivera's very recent statement to me on that very important quality of life issue for myself?"