STOP THE LCCCA!

 

Please go to www.5thestate.com, www.lookingatlancaster.com and this Sunday News article and the Talkback below it.  April Koppenhaver is having a Lancaster First meeting today at 1:00 a.m. at Mulberry Art Studios, 19-21 N. Mulberry St., to answer questions regarding the Convention Center.  Please try to attend.  The above button was designed by a Talkbacker and is available here. 

 

STOP THE LANCASTER COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER.

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~ Stop the Madness ~

INVESTIGATE THE LCCCA!

 

    “From 1999 through September 2005, more than $17 million has poured into the authority’s coffers through a tax levied on county hotel rooms, according to county treasurer Craig Ebersole.  But that level of income is not enough to pay all of its expenses, and it has finished in the red every year, according to published reports.”

“Center Authority spending questioned,” yesterday’s New Era (The article is here. )

    This is beyond outrageous.  This is criminal.  MaryAnne Motter Cullen, who exposed the School District of Lancaster scandal, posted under this article urging everyone to contact the PA Auditor General Office of Special Investigations.  Investigate the LCCCA.  Please call (717) 787-4548.

    April Koppenhaver of Lancaster First is inviting you to meet with concerned citizens tomorrow at Mulberry Art Studios at 1:00 p.m. for a question and answer session about the Convention Center Project.  The studios are at 19-21 North Mulberry Street.  Please attend.  This is urgent.

    April’s invitation lists the following as a few examples of the questionable expenses from the LCCCA check register:

 

               Doane International Pet Products                                                    $4,473

                        Stevens & Lee (Lawyers)                                                                   $5,324,533

Sprague & Sprague (Lawyers)                                                        $646,341

Lancaster County Chamber Of Commerce                                                $104,025

Duncan Construction for Security and Snow Removal                     $124,618

(City Council Member Eugene Duncan’s Personal Company)

                        Growth Business Development                                                          $591,385

                        Bull’s Advisory Group  Jan 05 – Aug 05                                              $92,958

                        Dave Hixson’s Blackberry Purchase                                                  $3,992

                        Metrovision                                                                                          $409,447

                        Lancaster Convention Center Sales and Mrktg.                                 $37,980

                        Buckner A. Wallingford, II / Econalysts Associates                            $94,741

                        E4 Exchange                                                                                      $66,188

                        Fairmount Capital Advisors                                                                $204,927

                        Fulton Bank                                                                                         $374,056

                        High Associates                                                                                  $1,871,634

 

           INVESTIGATE THE LCCCA.  STOP THE MADNESS!!! 

 

~ To Hawkes & Howell ~

SAY GOODBYE!

    “I want to say goodbye to the divisiveness.  I want to say goodbye to self-destruction.  I want to say goodbye to the lawyers.”

“It’s time to be more decisive, less divisive,” Jeff Hawkes, yesterday's Intell.  (Click here  for the article.)

 

    I want to say goodbye to you, Jeff.  I received several emails asking me to, “give him your two cents.”  I’m not sure if they meant Jeff or Jack Howell, president of the Lancaster Alliance, who is quoted in the article, so I’ll give them both my two cents and a little extra for the holiday season.

SABOTEURS

    Jeff, you’re nuts.  The good Doctor Fraud has already diagnosed you as a psychopath.  Let’s not discuss your “Dr. Evil” piece or your “Whack-a-Mole song” column which forced me to buy expensive tranquilizers and had me so disturbed I couldn’t even type a word about it for fear of relapsing.  And now this.  He calls the county commissioners “saboteurs.”  He cries about the divisiveness over the convention center.  And then the crackpot quotes Howell who thinks we need to hire yet another consultant to “teach us how to engage in shared decision making and avoid the pitfalls that lead to a divided community.”

CONVINCE ARTIE?

    How is this consultant going to do that, Jack and Jeff?  Go door to door through the city?  Write a column in the newspaper (maybe he or she could take your place, Jeff)?  Take a bull-horn to Penn Square?  Or is he or she going to sit on Artie See’s doorstep for one year trying to convince Artie that taxpayer dollars are not being misused? 

JUST SAY “NAY” TO THE MISUSE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS

    Then Hawkes has the nerve to quote Howell as follows, “Lancaster city and county are littered with examples of bad public discourse where people think decisions are made without them, where proponents and naysayers pack public meetings and perform scripted three-minute speeches greeted by booing or applause.”  Boo to you, Jack.  Boo.  Artie, he used the “naysayer” word.  Go get him.  I think anyone who “packs a public meeting” should be ejected immediately.  And I think anyone responsible for “bad public discourse” should raise their hand and be sent to a corner with a book on public speaking.  And anyone who thinks any decisions by the PSP and LCCCA were made without their knowledge should also raise their hand and they can be sent to live in York.

GRINCHES

    Here’s something for you to huff, puff and groan about, Jeff.  Your employer is receiving $7.8 million for a building valued at $1.3 million.  Part of the six and a half million difference was for Holiday decorations.  And today we find out, “No Christmas trees, no Christmas trees.”  This story is beyond belief and I will just provide this link so you can read it and the excellent Talkback below it. 

GOODBYE

    I say goodbye to Jeff.  I say goodbye to Jack.  The city will be less divisive without either one of you.

 

PLEASE CHECK BACK THIS WEEKEND FOR A LOOK AT “SHOOTING DEATH IN CITY.”