TWISTED LOGIC May 6, 2018

Times Record, May 6, 2018: “Potential lawsuit is another twist in RVSC’s history”

Mardi Taylor In her above editorial states: “Whether the city of Fort Smith files another lawsuit regarding the unfinished River Valley Sports Complex remains to be seen, but it’s pretty clear more than $1 million in taxpayer money is unlikely to ever be returned”. “ Still, we support a new lawsuit because it sends the message to the Fort Smith taxpayers who approved a tax to help fund the project back in 2012, that the missing money—their money—is still a big deal”.

Ms. Taylor, you do have a twisted logic regarding economics, admitting Files & friends will never payoff the millions, then you pivot and suggest another perfectly unwinnable lawsuit should be filed costing taxpayers tens of thousands more!

Speaking of protecting taxpayer money you are perfectly willing to allow citizen taxpayers to be gouged again by the Fort Smith city attorneys.

Do you know how many tens of thousands of dollars that have already been paid out by citizen taxpayers for unwinnable lawsuits by the city attorney on behalf of the City Board of Directors that could conceivably amount to other tens of thousands of dollars? Now this is a “big deal”.

Now to the really Big Deal and the heart of the real crime, possibly entwined in major abuses and perhaps criminal conduct by the Fort Smith City government that has never been answered: why was the RVSC awarded to two politicians? Then that laden with the facts they were not bonded and were not subject to official city oversight of the project, and the Board’s continuing to fund the failed project right up to Files & Webb’s last gasp in this more than stupid, corrupt endeavor.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Isn’t it strange that not even one Board member was curious enough about the project to drive out and take a look?

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