TDC shows true character, or lack of it, with the "Yes" button debacle...

It's not the money, it's the point that they are arrogant enough to be so careless of our rights.  Public servants, PHOOEY!!!

Rick Deckert said they almost let the Chambers of Commerce pay for the buttons, as if that would be clean money.  The TDC spends $40,000 per year for Chamber fealty!  Then the Zimmerman Agency was mentioned as a source for the "pin money."  That family has had the TDC advertising contract ($1Million PLUS per year) from the beginning.  When I said, in an interview, that, "to my knowledge, that contract had never been open to biding,"  Darrell Jones replied that it had been bid THREE times! DUH!!  How about the other SEVEN times, Darrell?

Those are the very "Yes" buttons that people were shoving into my face INSIDE the building hosting the County Commission meeting which approved the Bed Tax increase of 100% to fund the Conference Center.  When I refused to take one, I got a SEVERE FROWN from the Chamber person who offered it.  Whoever allowed that circus into that meeting should be publicly flogged.  The Opposition also hooted down some of the speakers.  Oh well, you can't buy CLASS.

No citizen should feel intimidated while attending such a meeting; NEVER!

Cheers!
Gaylan King

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