D207's Sales Strategy

Create The Problem - Frighten The Public - Sell The Solution,
is a successful political sales strategy designed to manipulate public opinion toward a given outcome the public would never have chosen otherwise. 

1. Create the problem
2. Frighten the public
3. Sell the solution.

Let's look at it another way.  The calculation is: solution = (problem * upset)

Examples:
 
      referendum = (old-neglected-dangerous-campus * concerned/upset public)
  
   $194,000,000 = (neglected asbestos problem * upset student/parent)

  $194,000,000 = (deferred secure entrance problem * upset student/parent)

The last two examples come from the Referendum. 

The asbestos fix alone was estimated in 2012 to only cost $6.3 million.  Why it has taken 20 years (ten under Dr. Wallace) to address the "secure entrance" problem is another story.  Let's just assume an additional $6.0 million to fix. 

These ongoing teacher/student health & safety problems were known in 2012, and needed to be fixed years ago.  And both problems could have been fixed years ago, had the Wallace/Owen Team, not secretly withheld our previously taxed $45 million, for THEIR purposes. 

I think we're being conned!

School Name	Description	Cost
Maine - East	Asbestos - Flooring	$1,988,000
	Asbestos - Ceiling	$998,000
		===========
		$2,986,000
Maine - South	Asbestos - Flooring	$510,000
	Asbestos - Ceiling	$826,000
		===========
		$1,336,000
Maine - West	Asbestos - Flooring	$1,875,000
	Asbestos - Ceiling	$101,000
		===========
		$1,976,000
Total Maine	Asbestos - Flooring	$4,373,000
	Asbestos - Ceiling	$1,925,000
		===========
	Total:	$6,298,00