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Who pays attention to every contract awarded by your city? Normally, it is the city manager. What if the city manager is ethically challenged. "The Hercules City Council, without any discussion, awarded almost $1 million in service and consulting contracts for the current fiscal year to a firm founded by the Hercules city manager and now owned by two of his daughters."
Who oversees all city contracts? The City Manager? Convenient or corrupt?
While this story is about the perception, if not the reality of corruption in a small city in Contra Costa County, this is a story of how government spends money on non essential services, giving the contracts to special interests.
Behind almost all non essential government contracts are special interests. The special interest bring the poor, the misplaced, the unknowing, to council, begging for a "service" by government. Then money is made by the instigators and the services are seldom as planned.
This is why government has too much money. We need to starve government, before government completely starves us. Just think of the taxes and fees California is going to demand of your business and family, to cover the $36 billion deficit it currently has.
We are in trouble and corruption is at the heart of the problem.
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Who oversees all city contracts? The City Manager? Convenient or corrupt?
While this story is about the perception, if not the reality of corruption in a small city in Contra Costa County, this is a story of how government spends money on non essential services, giving the contracts to special interests.
Behind almost all non essential government contracts are special interests. The special interest bring the poor, the misplaced, the unknowing, to council, begging for a "service" by government. Then money is made by the instigators and the services are seldom as planned.
This is why government has too much money. We need to starve government, before government completely starves us. Just think of the taxes and fees California is going to demand of your business and family, to cover the $36 billion deficit it currently has.
We are in trouble and corruption is at the heart of the problem.
More...