At a recent candidate forum Drew Crutcher made a statement i found curious:

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As you will see in the document below, obtained by a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request through Judge Redford's office, you will see there were several very SPECIFIC options and PRICES proposed to the committee.

 Ector County Courthouse price options (104.5 kB)

How can Mr. Crutcher say as a chair of that committee that "no scheme" was brought forward and no prices were discussed?

How can Mr. Crutcher be trusted to be transparent in office if he cannot be transparent as a candidate?

Other gems were these:

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Apparently we need our homes appraised higher (for taxing purposes) for the benefit of the Economic Development scam.

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Gee, what's funny is I came across this story in the OA from December of 2009 which had several notable things in it;

Gary Vest, economic development director for the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, said he would discuss the new price at a meeting Tuesday with the board of the Odessa Industrial Development Corp., a private nonprofit company that buys and holds land for industry.

Once a price is agreed upon, ODC’s board and the Odessa City Council would have to approve it. Vest said that ODC, a sales tax supported entity that gives incentives to area industry, would then reimburse OIDC for the cost of the land.

The process of land purchases have worked that way for many years, Vest said. Because OIDC is private, it doesn’t have to go through the same scrutiny as ODC.

“It takes a while for ODC to do the approval process,” Vest said. “OIDC can do it in one meeting without having to post notice.”

...more to come on this story...

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