Three Council Winners Received More Than $120k From Developers With Both Projects and Lawsuits Pending
Martha Sadler over at the Independent has the complete story on the three new council members, who unseated three incumbents in last November's election, received an assist of more than $120,000 in donations from developers with both projects and lawsuits pending before the council.
Click here for the complete story.
How are these last minute donations going to affect the way the Council votes on future projects that come before them?
1 comment:
Great story and good to know about who paid whom.
While all the donations look above board, and as long as no one was reimbursed for their contribution, there's not much anyone can say. Everything the donors did was legal under campaign laws. And as much as I hate to use the old cliche - everybody does it (I haven't met hardly a politician yet that won't take money, especially in the home-stretch week).
The only thing the voters can do is to watch how the new councilmembers vote on the projects (funded by their donors), if they don't recuse themselves. If we don't like what they're doing, we can unemploy them in four years.
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