good news, bad news...

The Washington D.C. gccf-casino liaison attorney called yesterday with updates on the process.  The good news is that we are on the front burner with favorable prospects for positive resolution of our Interim Claims.  The bad news is that the gccf continues to create delays.  We are now told that the "methodology" will be trotted out for a two-week period for public comment and input early in February.  Interim Claim processing will follow.  When?  Who knows?  Perhaps late February.  This is in direct contradiction to what was said by a local gccf office manager yesterday.  Our local gentleman stated most sincerely that our claims would begin processing February 1st.  A call to the gccf 800# tells us that the methodology is still a work in progress, and that it might be published in three to four weeks.

Here is our email to D.C.:

 

 

Bill,

 

Thank you for your phone call yesterday.  Do you ever get the feeling that we are caught up in some sort of European circus?  ...some sort of theatre of the absurd?

 

by Sasha Chavkin
ProPublica, Dec. 14, 2010, 2:46 p.m.

Feinberg said that he would post a description of his methodology for evaluating claims online and in every claims office in the Gulf, and said he would release the methodology within the next 10 days. "We will have full transparency," he said.

Bill, I am rarely at a loss for words, but, here, I am totally dumbfounded.  Really, is the boss out of touch, or not in control?  It obviously must be one or the other.

"full transparency" means, perhaps, that "nothing we say has any substance at all".  Ten days?  MAYBE forty-five days...  Who's actually running the asylum? 

"full transparency" means having all gccf staffers telling every claimant who asks that Interim Claims will be processed beginning February 1.  Oh, SORRY!  We meant the END of February.

What kind of funky idea is it to trot out the "methodology" for public input?  Nobody out here cares about the #^@&*+% methodology!  That's the gccf's job.  The "people" have been given short stick all along.  Why pretend now?  Consider the bizarre possibility that the gccf might actually entertain public input.  There would be so many hundreds of different suggestions, that if, actually considered, would take YEARS to implement and form a new, improved methodology.  Is nobody there getting the message at all?  WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!  The gccf doesn't have time for this, either.  Every day that goes by brings more lawyers and more punitive damages.

Can't we PLEASE just start processing claims?