| Catching up on my reading on this site and I ran across this.
Sad state of affairs that we have three County Commissioners that knew they were flouting the law and went ahead and did the deed anyway. Talk is that John Swayze wanted to vote no, but he did not have the brass balls to vote that way with over 275 people in the room for this ethanol plant. Brass balls or not, that makes him along with Goodnight and Williams just as guilty. According to people there, you gave every sign of voting no but when the vote came you were looking down at the floor when you voted. What was that, shame?
What does this do for law in Ford County? This was fairly barefaced and everyone knows about this. Will the voters forget?
You have to wonder about the Ford County Zoning Commission. How are they going to be able to sit on that board knowing that everyone recognizes that they have two sets of regulations? One written and one invisible. One for people with lots of money and those without a lot of money.
Last week I was told that Ric Marbouef, a home contractor, built a $400,000 plus house in Summerlawn for Gary Harshberger, the president of Biofuels. I have to ask how does a voting commission member get to vote on the matter after getting $400,000.00+ for building a house for the applicant? Is that allowed?
Zoning Commission Members: John Mullen, Scott VanderHamm, Grant Powers, Josie Lix, and (good old let me build your house (2005) and get my vote) Ric Marbouef. Grant Powers and his family are getting to sell water rights on this from what I hear. (Anyone know about this?) The Commission Members that have no hidden agenda or motives on this should resign. Knowing Grant Powers and Ric Marbouel, I don’t expect them to resign in protest.
Seems like everyone is getting something out of this including us. We get to suffer the loss of some our legal rights and respect for law in Ford County.  |