April 13, 2006
Gagged!
Alpine
Avalanche Gags Brewer
(Last week Harry Darby, the Publisher of the Avalanche, adversely
editorialized that Alpine City Councilman Bob Brewer was an insincere
Libertarian because Brewer questioned the most recent Free Lunch to a
developer on the west side. Brewer sent Darby a rebuttal (below) and
Darby did not publish Brewer's response. SHAME ON DARBY. We are
delighted to publish Brewer's letter as did the Jeff Davis County
Mountain Dispatch.)
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Bob Brewer Letter to the Editors
To
the Editors
(for the 13 April editions):
The
6 April Avalanche attacked me, again, leaving
out part of the
story and not
reporting all the facts, again – all while hiding behind Darby's ban on
candidate letters. I didn't vote against Hampton Inn coming to Alpine;
I voted
against the Hampton Inn Agenda Item for many reasons.
Council
didn't learn about this West US-90 Item until 31 March; for months we'd
been
told HI would build on East US-90. Council was kept in the dark until
the
previous day; their rep said he'd been talking to the Manager and Mayor
for 60
days; the Manager says only 16 days to him, so that leaves the Mayor
talking
for 44 days, with no legal authority under the Charter or anything else
to work
on business deals for the City. This
is the Good Ole Boys and Girls Tax
and
Spend Club at work again: wasted money, secrecy, and end runs around
Council.
Darby
didn't mention that HI wants 60 rooms on City water/sewer without an
engineering review; that an illegal, recently finished highway bore
enlargement
(2 Ordinances and 1 Resolution violated, 2 lies to Council, and Council
informed after the fact, all by former Manager Philippi) put a fire
plug right
there (drastically lower insurance costs for a real estate office,
retail
store, burros, storage units, and HI - all outside Alpine), costing »$15,000
that should have been paid by developers/property owners, not
Taxpayers; and
that the rep refused to answer all of Council's questions. My vote was
against
the last minute, the-world-will-end- if-we-don't-do-this-deal-tonight
pressure,
and a complete lack of information, including water/sewer/property
maps. By
disclosing the seller's name, the rep would have taken his client out
of the
illegal bore enlargement picture, removing some of the stink. Honest,
complete
reporting wouId have told the entire story, but didn't.
Bob Brewer
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