December 24, 2011

SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "RFTA launches eminent-domain effort in court"

Why is it important to remember all these seemingly small details from the news stories in our area?

Why is it so important to speak up about those details?

Because without the average taxpayer and voter doing so, there are no controls over what happens to both public funds and our leaders in positions of trust and sworn duty.

Billions of dollars.  Most of it in bailouts and wish lists.  A great deal of it given to clean up errors in management judgment or poor decision making on the administration of RFTA's end.

$46 million bucks is one of the latest 'sell-jobs' from the Roaring Fork Transit Agency.  You know who they are.  They're those monster size fuel guzzling public transports running the length of the Valley and corridor mostly empty of riders every day.

Usually the problem lies in the 'small details' CEO Dan Blankenship and RFTA's crony elected officials just seem to 'overlook'.

Like...say...the mega plan to overhaul the RFTA corridor in the Valley....needing a couple parcels of land or it's a complete 'no go' on the project.   Parcels that have been owned by the same folks for a long time and are high dollar chunks of commercial real estate in Basalt.

Looks like Blankenship's solution is to execute what works for him whenever he holds out his RFTA bailout hand to the folks.

Force the giving over of his company's demand and count on the law and ethics being overlooked.

Business and cronyism as usual.

Just say NO, Mr. Cathers and Mr. Myers.

Just say NO.

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1 comment:

legalkiwi said...

Business 101. You don't go out and rely on a plan that you don't have the ability to pull off.

Especially when you're using the public's money.

You make a plan that you can execute, do all due diligence before reaching into the public wallet and then sell it to the general population for approval.

But then again, since when is RFTA a legit company?