Paul Ford Exposes Mayor David Green, Earle Jones Link

Potential 2010 mayoral candidate and recently defeated councilman Paul Ford still updates his Web site, PaulFordReports.com, and the recent Duncanville City Council decisions throwing more money at connected crooks was no exception:

[PaulFordReports.com] Agenda Item 4C. Approval of contract with Earle Jones to provide contractual economic development services.

This will be another $100,000 thrown at Mayor David Green's relative Earle Jones; 4B Board Director Earle Jones's son is married to David Green's daughter. And once again, we will see Mayor David Green refuse to recuse himself from voting on this contract.

For more on Earle Jones, go to the "Pro-Dunc Postcard" page of Paul Ford Reports, "http://www.paulfordreports.com/6101.html , and scroll down to item #4, "Economic Development Director."

Agenda Item 5C. Approval of an expenditure of 4B funds in the amount of $135,000 for Main Station improvements.

This represents yet another gift of taxpayer money to Monte Anderson, the primary owner of Main Station.

In my opinion, Monte Anderson, along with Dalton Lott, is also one of the primary beneficiaries of the millions of dollars in taxpayer money the City is spending on the Main Street Vision Development Plan. In addition to Main Station, Monte Anderson owns the Center Street Condo Project, the Church Building on Main Street next to Main Station, and at least two other buildings on Main Street at the center of the Plan.

Currently, the 4B Board owns 32% of Main Station and is supposed to receive 32% of the profits. One wonders -- will this new gift by the 4B Board increase the 4B Board's ownership percentage? Not that it really matters -- last time I checked, Main Station has yet to pay ONE CENT of profit to the 4B Board.