Mayor Pougnet Would Stay Silent
Faster than a speeding bullet the Mayor recused himself. Since he is currently in the middle of a corruption probe involving people linked to these sales, this one was easy. Of course he cited his "business" conflict.
No One Would Mention The September Raid By The Task Force On Palm Springs City Hall
Like any reference to Kim Jong Eun's Uncle in North Korea, it has disappeared from the consciousness. Okay I am 2 for 2.
The City Council Would Have The Sense Not To Crow About It
Boy did I strike out on this. Despite the fact this report did find flaws in the way the process was handled twice, you would have thought Moses himself had descended from Mt. Sinai carrying this report instead of the 10 Commandments. The terms "sloppy" and "technical violations" were bandied about. Paul Lewin went on social media and explained how the city really did nothing wrong. Ginny Foat and Rick Hutcheson were almost combative in their stands. David Ready was Eddie Haskellesque in his statements. And on websites, the defenders of Truth, Justice and the Palm Springs Status Quo nearly fell over themselves in praising the city.
In this pique of this self-righteousness and self-congratulatory orgy, city officials failed to mention a few obvious facts.
1.) The report was about technical processes not whether the processes were steered from the start for the benefit of one group or individual. It did find a serious problem in the sale of the Prairie Schooner lot.
2) The US Attorney's Office and their independent legal review trumps any one funded by the city. They are looking into whether the process was flawed from the start due to corruption, not if the paperwork was correct.
The old saying goes It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Sings. In the case of Palm Springs, she isn't even at the theater yet.
Steve Kelly can be reached at skelly@rrbroadcasting.com
I was dumbfounded.
ReplyDeleteScott,
ReplyDeleteI wasn't. I have given up trying to keep an updated list of the variations of "I/we have done nothing wrong", "We should have asked more questions", "our staff is overworked" and/or "I am/we are sure that this will turn out to be a tempest in a teapot" (as the FBI is walking away with computers and boxes of files).
Sometimes all of the above crop up in one long-winded protestation. Yet, as Steve said last week, Ginny is the presumptive winner. The only thing that will make the outcome interesting is to see how the percentages break out.
Will anyone get anywhere NEAR half the votes? And, of the registered voters, what percentage of THEM will actually vote? So......given our election history, in all likelihood, the winner whomever that may be will actually represent about 1 in 5 of the full-time residents of this town. If that.
Shouldn't we be having primaries.....to winnow out the field and thereby really elect a "winner" rather than get stuck with someone "by default"???