{"id":54,"date":"2013-10-09T18:53:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j85.01e.mytemp.website\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-10-09T18:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:53:38","slug":"bi-partisanship-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Bi-Partisanship for Profit??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=black><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bi-Partisanship or an Ecumenical Movement?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To:&nbsp; Fort Smith City Manager Ray Gosack, At-Large Director Pam Weber, Ward 3 Director Mike Lorenz, Ward 2 Director Andre Good, et al. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; October 9, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Public Service or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153public\u00e2\u20ac\u009d self-service?&nbsp; Bi-partisan activity in the mecca of insider-trading, i.e. Fort Smith, Arkansas is taking place, e.g. Lee Webb, Democrat Committee Chairman for Sebastian County &amp; Jake Files, Republican Arkansas State Senator have aligned themselves to take advantage of what appears to be a huge cash windfall presented to them by the Fort Smith city government &amp; subsidized by citizen taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Constitutionality, what are the legal issues, and what are the ethical questions involved in Files, Webb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, and the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activities pertaining to the building of the $1.6 Million River Valley Sports Complex?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Everyone supports the much needed complex, but the manner of achieving it smacks of all sorts of inside-trading.<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Specifically, where does the city fit into this smelly conundrum?<br \/>\n2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is this an act of collusion? <br \/>\n3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Are Files &amp; Webb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s involvements in the formation of the Sports Complex an abuse of public trust?<br \/>\n4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What are the benefits that Files &amp; Webb are looking for upon completion of said complex?<br \/>\n5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is it legal for duly elected public officials to control and profit from government (taxpayers) subsidized projects? <br \/>\n6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why is the City Manager and the Fort Smith Board not willing to transmit all the details of this project to the city &amp; county residents?<br \/>\n7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why is the city of Fort Smith not underwriting the totality of the project and\/or putting it up for bid?<\/p>\n<p>When game day arrives who will be holding the buckets of cash derived from parking, concessions, tickets, team entrance fees, etc. etc.?&nbsp; Understand that unless there is not extremely strict oversight theft will run rampant. <\/p>\n<p>To use the over worked phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At the end of the day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d what is the financial cut for Files &amp; Webb and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in it for the taxpayers who are subsidizing the entire affair. There was a time if profits were to be made; those who make the profits totally fund the endeavor<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nCity Manager Gosack, Directors Weber, Lorenz &amp; Good, what do you believe Attorney General Dustin McDaniel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legal rendering would be, as well as other legal scholars, of Files &amp; Webb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elected positions that would benefit them mightily from the economics of the sports complex?<\/p>\n<p>Director Settle is the gentleman who has the capacity to address the questions in detail to the satisfaction of the voters pertaining to the River Valley Sports Complex.&nbsp; The question is, will he?<\/p>\n<p>Joe McCutchen<\/p>\n<p>P.S. As is the case, the Times Record only prints whatever the politicians spit out, never questioning the motives, goals, methods, etc.&nbsp; Why?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/j85.01e.mytemp.website&nbsp;&nbsp;\">arkansasfreedom.net&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a> <br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bi-Partisanship or an Ecumenical Movement? To:&nbsp; Fort Smith City Manager Ray Gosack, At-Large Director Pam Weber, Ward 3 Director Mike Lorenz, Ward 2 Director Andre Good, et al. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; October 9, 2013 Public Service or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153public\u00e2\u20ac\u009d self-service?&nbsp; Bi-partisan activity in the mecca of insider-trading, i.e. Fort Smith, Arkansas is taking place, e.g. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bi-Partisanship for Profit??<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government-offenses","category-city-politics","category-politicrats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}