Here are a few disturbing lines from this morning's paper:
"It's likely that Castle and his six city council peers will not be asked to approve any formal Five Rivers development agreement.
Kinney said the term sheet, approved last fall, contained a provision that authorizes city staff to ink the formal agreement and move on. That is, if nothing within the term sheet substantially changes, requiring council reconsideration."
Preventing the city council from approving the development agreement is a way to keep the public shut out of the process. That's unconscionable, and should be rejected in the strongest possible terms by the city council.
Meanwhile C.D. Smith Construction, Tom Doig's financial savior, are quite the players in Madison. They know how to grease palms for no-bid contracts; their executives once gave Tommy Thompson $37,000 in one day.
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This is very disturbing and I imagine Jackson Kinney is sitting in his office this morning with a Cheshire cat-like grin on his face over the slick politics played in this deal.
You and I are in complete agreement on what the city council needs to do. On my web site I have also pointed out some questions that I think the city council needs to get answers to post-haste.
Depends how you define "substantially"?
The dance continues. Those in power do what they want. We complain about it, the powerfull do what they wan, etc etc. Nothing changes when nothing changes.
So vote them out next time.
I do believe that was one point of the post - that it doesn't matter who you "vote out". You, buddy, don't have a say in this, nor, as it seems, do your "voted in" officials.
Terrific comment, Jut. The only one with a say seems to be Mr. Kinney.
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