2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 5 Jun 2007 17:56:00 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] County politics at Ingleside (TX)
 
County officials' action poses threat to unity
Their insistence on primacy for Nueces County could adversely influence outcome of the crucial base closure process.


Editorial
Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX)
June 5, 2007

The four Nueces County commissioners, if asked to defend their expenditure of $18,000 a month to a lobbying firm that has torpedoed recognition of the local base closure group, would likely say that they are trying to get the county its rightful place as head of the group that will convert Naval Station Ingleside to civilian uses. But the truth is that the commissioners have made themselves an obstacle to unity on a crucial issue for the economic future of the region and an obstruction to progress on redevelopment of Naval Station Ingleside.

As reporter Dan Kelley detailed on Sunday, the four commissioners Oscar Ortiz, Chuck Cazalas, Betty Jean Longoria and Peggy Banales have thwarted the efforts of County Judge Loyd Neal to end the lobbying contract with the Washington firm Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2007/jun/05/county-officials-action-poses-threat-to-unity-on/

See also http://www.caller.com/news/2007/jun/03/braclobbying/ for the referenced article.
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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