Preble NY - 400 Protest Flying J coming to Salina. Flying J's Mike Miller shows what he is made of.

400 Protest Flying J coming to Salina.
Flying J's Mike Miller shows what he is made of.
Frank Hogg 1/14/02 (Draft)

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down...

Mike Miller, Flying J's 'Big Bad Wolf' is pulling the same crap in Salina that he did here in Preble. He threatened them with his 'deep pockets' line about endless lawsuits. Didn't faze us here in little old Preble so I doubt it will there. He is such a jerk, does he really think this kind of crap works. Adolescent high school BS is all it is. No wonder Flying J is not well liked. They could use an attitude adjustment and getting rid of Miller would be a good first step.

Millers quote from the Post Standard. "Whoever decides to fight ought to know that it will cost big money, and Flying J has it." I've met and talked to Miller and he is exactly what you think he is.

Links to deep pockets comments on this site:
Pembroke NY Flying J Travel Plaza
Preble Town and Planning Board report 5/18/1
Who's really holding up the Flying J project?
Frank Hogg, What a difference a day makes. 4/12/1
Preble ~ Just Suppose, a fictional story.

Quotes about Flying J in the Post Standard article...

The companies (Flying J) report says "half of the trucks will be idling 90 percent of the time and the rest 50 percent of the time in the winter and summer and 20 percent will idle all the time in spring and fall" (I seem to recall Flying J saying something completely different here in Preble. Perhaps the truck stop here would be different from the one there. Yeah right.)

Nicholas Pirro, Onondaga County Executive urged Salina officials to reject the proposed Flying J truck stop. "I have grave concerns," he said "and I request that the planning board deny the application for a special permit."

Also against the truck stop. Clay Supervisor Patrick DiDomenico, Liverpool Mayor Marlene Ward and Liverpool Police Chief Donald Morris.

Morris said the plaza would require increased policing, pulling sheriff's deputies and state police away from the village. He expects more calls for 'assaults, fights and intoxicated drivers who will frequent the 24-hour facility." He added that he feared the potential for prostitution and drug use and sales, and that the plaza would become a haven for runaways."

Cortland County officials said they couldn't comment on the Preble Flying J because it was a 'local issue'. Guess that the Onondaga County officials are a bit braver than ours. Everyone that is surprised raise your hands.

Random factoid. John P Sidd, the lawyer for Flying J in Salina works with Rick Shaffer who is/was the lawyer for Flying J in Preble. No big deal right? WRONG! Sidd is also the lawyer for the Cortland Farmland Protection corporation, the Slowy/Hartsock gang that was pushing Flying J in Preble. Can you spell CONFLICT OF INTEREST? Didn't they know that this would come out sometime? What fools!

Links:
John P Sidd Lawyer for Salina Flying J! AND the Farmland Protection corporation in Cortland.
Now isn't this interesting. Frank Hogg 4/5/1

The Syracuse Post Standard January 10th and 11th 2002.
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