Well, it was a good thing I didn’t eat before I went to the candidate forum sponsored by ECIA Tuesday night. I might have barfed! The three mayoral candidates and six council ones about choked themselves with glowing and crowing..
You would never have known the lovely little berg of Cascade, Iowa has in the past given free sewer line to a millionaire, a free street to a developer, god only knows what to Developer Danny Conrad (because it ended in sealed court case), $257,000 of citizen tax money to mop up the mistakes of a tech millionaire, who has left town, etc. ad nauseam.
No mention was made either of the $20,000 a year the city is giving to Economic Development, a private corporation with closed books and meetings. Or any of the other transfers of goods and services that businesses get.
The only question with teeth was asked by me: Is the Sidewalk ordinance passed in 2017 a) legal or b) fair? Every one of the current council people said this was model ordinance given to them by the National League of Cities. At least they didn’t say it was fair—I appear to be the only candidate concerned with that nonsense. ECIA refused to allow me to participate, which tells you how much that organization really cares about democracy.
Late in the meeting there was a reference to TIF. As it so happens I had a list of all the current payments in my backpack. I whipped it out and handed it to the woman behind me (Marge Gehl). She refused to look at it—the perfect metaphor for the whole evening, I’d say.
So if you stayed home and watched TV and even if the show was really lousy, you had a better time. Five glasses of wine didn’t put a dent in my disgust.
You are a special kind of stupid aren’t you
ReplyDeleteThis kind of tells me you need help, have looked at what the people have done for Cascade it is not all taking from the city, I have put in two subdivision for the people of Cascade. Maybe people who want to run down others should first look at themselves.
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