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November 11, 2008 07:33 PM UTC
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wouldn’t you recomend it to your friends? i’m not saying “you scratch my back, i’ll scratch yours” is alright, but if someone knows the work is going to be done right by a company, that company should get the job. the problem with going with the lowest bidder sometimes means the lowest quality. state and county often go with the lowest bidder only to find projects behind in their timelines or having to do it again sooner than planned. i think that this story brings up a bigger point and that is the contracting system is flawed, and until that is fixed, what’s a contracter to do? and for that matter, what are we to do on our low bid roads?
I don’t see in the story where his party affiliation is mentioned.
He were Republican that would be prominently mentioned and you know it.
OpenSecrets.org doesn’t list a single donation for a SAM or SAMUEL GOMEZ for any election cycle. So he’s not an active anything, at least not in a major contribution kind of way.
He’s going to negotiate a nice, cushy severance, or a “retirement” that’ll allow him to draw his pension AND keep his ill-gotten gains.
Please prove me wrong, Adams County!
They had same thing with Crystal Gray.
Making these corrupt officials go to bid, making a public database available of their inside deals will help.
Don Quick time to make your mark.
And costing taxpayers money on an unconstitutional windmill-tilting expedition.
You want Colorado to look away and let corporations and LLCs get no bid contracts? What kind of fiscal controls do you propose?
Oh, yeah – nothing.
It would no more stop this kind of activity than a law against publishing state secrets would stop someone from giving them in exchange for a bribe.
Amendment 54 is not about real corruption. It is about political speech.
54 is a law prohibiting campaign contributions (unconstitutionally, I might add).
The county manager is, in most locations, an appointed/hired position. 54 would not affect him or the contractor’s bribe in any way.
Where is Don Quick at on this corruption. Perfect opportunity to shine.
If the only one of your three pet amendments to pass – the one that will be shot down by the courts as unconstitutionally restrictive of speech – is all you have left to hang on to, I’d suggest you go in search of a new meaning in life and stop frittering it away here trying to defend the thread you’re hanging on to that’s destined to break.