Smoking Gun? ( Was Re: Alturas)

["Cliff Todd" <forester@moscow.com>]

Hm... What's this?  Could it be a leak from the liberal anti-Alturas smoky
backroom conspiracy meeting?

Cliff
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: Alturas


> [do not forward]
>
> Bill,
>
> One juicy detail that I forgot to mention:
>
> Shelley Bennett (formerly of the LEDC) spoke.  She said that when looking
> for a location, and the issue of the Troy Highway area came up, she was
> quite enthusiastic, because her family had just bought the mall across the
> street, and what a great selling point that would be for filling the mall
> vacancies.
>
> I was astounded that she was speaking in public about how her influence
> over a decision involving public funds could result in substantial
> financial gain for her family.  She must have felt really comfortable with
> her audience.
>
> According to the agenda, the man in charge of questions and answers was
> Rich Levengood, Latah Economic Development Council, Alturas Outsider
> Extraordinaire.  Question & Answer period did spill over about an extra 15
> minutes, although Ken Medlin took up most of that.  Aside from Ken's
> questions/comments, there was only one other written question that was
> submitted.
>
> Bob Hoffmann
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