[CPEO-IRF] County politics at Ingleside (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

County officials' action poses threat to unity
Their insistence on primacy for Nueces County could adversely influence 
outcome of the crucial base closure process.


Editorial
Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX)
June 5, 2007

The four Nueces County commissioners, if asked to defend their 
expenditure of $18,000 a month to a lobbying firm that has torpedoed 
recognition of the local base closure group, would likely say that they 
are trying to get the county its rightful place as head of the group 
that will convert Naval Station Ingleside to civilian uses. But the 
truth is that the commissioners have made themselves an obstacle to 
unity on a crucial issue for the economic future of the region and an 
obstruction to progress on redevelopment of Naval Station Ingleside.

As reporter Dan Kelley detailed on Sunday, the four commissioners Oscar 
Ortiz, Chuck Cazalas, Betty Jean Longoria and Peggy Banales have 
thwarted the efforts of County Judge Loyd Neal to end the lobbying 
contract with the Washington firm Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2007/jun/05/county-officials-action-poses-threat-to-unity-on/

See also http://www.caller.com/news/2007/jun/03/braclobbying/ for the 
referenced article.
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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