Letter to the Editor: Reflections on the district 20 candidates forum #2 (August, 2006)
I was rather shocked to hear that Ida Ruben claimed, during her debate with Jamie Raskin last week, that she was the originator of the Silver Spring Arts District. The Silver Spring Arts District was the product of a tremendous amount of hard work by a great number of local activists and community leaders over a number of years, and for Ida Ruben to attempt to hoard all of the credit for this monumental and visionary effort is arrogant and self-aggrandizing, not to mention untrue.
Al Gore was accused of claiming that he invented the Internet. While that allegation was not in fact true, Ida Ruben claiming that she alone was responsible for the development of the Silver Spring Arts District is far worse, and even more inaccurate, than that. She should be ashamed of herself and give credit where credit is due.
— Miti Figueredo
Silver Spring, MD