We can all remember when Alexandria City Attorney Chuck Johnson showed us and the City Council his famous lock box and deduct box. Chuck told us that our rebates were in the lock box.
Of course, federal Judge Dee Drell wrote that there was NO MONEY in Chuck's lock box (See: the Legal Committee in "ALEXANDRIA CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF JUNE 29, 2010 " and
"THE NAKED UTILITY: "IN JUDGE DRELLS 'S OWN WORDS: NO LOCKBOX").
This would not be the last time that Chuck Johnson has lied to us and the Alexandria City Council.
While we are still waiting on Judge Drell's ruling in the Brown, Sharp and Davidson attorney fee cases from federal court, the Alexandria City Council will take our power supply agreement and our rebates from Cleco at Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Let us hope that we will finally get some straight answers.
"Let us hope that we will finally get some straight answers"
ReplyDeleteWHAT???
and ruin a perfect run of good lies?
And. Mr. Aymond, there really isn't a Santa Claus, either.
Seriously, as an independent blogger, you should run a poll so we could determine voter confidence in our mayorial leadership. But that would require a check box for Mighty Mouth and a check box for Kay. Probably wouldn't work, so fugedaboutit.
Does anyone really think that if the deal Jacques reached with Cleco was really better than the deal that the City Council approved in Dec. '08 that would have provided the City with $29M in upfront money, we wouldn't be reading about it each month in the Town Talk? If Jacques' deal was really better, we would be treated to a side by side comparison chart each month, showing what our bills would have been under the original agreement, and how much lower the bills are under the deal that Jacques put together. Jacques' silence says it all. If there ever is a rebate (unlikely), it will come from money generated by the artificial markup in natural gas costs contained in the power supply contract fuel pricing mechanism. In other words, we'll pay ourselves a rebate with our own money. Great job, Jacques!
ReplyDeleteNovember 14, 2011 10:01 AM:
ReplyDeleteThe City Council DID NOT approve the $29 million offer from Cleco.
But anyway that you look at it, that $29 million or the paltry sum that Jacques did settle for does not equal the $60 million that our experts claim that Cleco defrauded us out of.