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Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me ...

By JAABLOG

Politics 101 - by now it's old news that a new courthouse will be built.  It's not surprising, but it's official.  After the sham Courthouse Task Force (refurbish? yeah, right) and Chief Judge Tobin's ham-fisted PR campaign (see here and here), the majority of the County Commissioners simply chanted their scripted "depressed land values" and "public safety" mantras, until the voters were cheated out of the right to determine how their $328 million will be spent.  As Commissioner Jacobs cynically put it, the community doesn't trust the beleaguered County Commission anyway, so "why run it up the flagpole"?One by one the developer's lawyers and Tobin's lackeys approached the podium, singing the same song as the approving commissioners...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on February 02, 2010 (boomark / email).