What a difference a few years makes!
Back around 2021, local slimeballs Mike Cour and Alan Champagne were trying to slither their way into the “Business Pork” and all the attached piles of free shit – including “free” land and a $1.75 million, 22,500 square-foot building!
After poor Mandy voided her bowels in shock, she and the entire LEDC realized they had been played for the last year and told Eco-Strong/Eco-Flex to pound sand, more or less.
[Don’t ask me to explain the financial/corporate/personal relationship between Eco-Strong and Eco-Flex. I cannot. Sometimes they seem interchangeable and sometimes seem to be separate entities, as you can see on the shitty Power Point page above. Eco-Felx is DEFINITELY a Canadian company and Eco-Strong is DEFINITELY (or was) some kind of offshoot hatched by Mike Cour]
But a funny thing happened after the Eco-Turds were denied any and all tax dollars: they went ahead and moved into a nice new building over on Pecan Street! A building built by Mike Irvin, by the way – who should DEFINITELY be replacing Misti Talbert as LEDC President any day now.
Now how in the world did they manage THAT? One day they are going hat-in-hand to the City for almost two million smackers, and soon after they somehow are up and running all on their own! My goodness! It’s almost like I was 100% right and they were looking to scam the City for free shit they didn’t even need.
Hell, Mike Cour was sitting on about 200 acres of his OWN LAND at the same time he was rattling his tin cup – something I pointed out repeatedly.
Fast forward a couple years and we see this on social media a couple days ago:
A bit odd that it is DEFINITELY “Eco-Flex” and NOT “Eco-Strong, Mike Cour’s racket.
I’ve seen this new wall for myself. It looks to be about 100 feet long – which is about a $10,000 gift, if their ridiculous $90-per-linear-foot prices are still accurate. Probably even more, given that concrete footer they have there.
But as all of us except Bruce Haywood and Clayton Tucker learned in second grade: there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. So why would Eco-Turd make this magnanimous gesture towards the City? What’s in it for them?
Tough to decipher. If there was some kind of “quid pro quo” (like, perhaps, we ‘give’ you this fence and you agree to buy a couple from us at full price next time *wink wink*) I’m not sure who they did the deal with. Finley will be gone in a month and word on the grapevine is that Dwight Schrute himself – Ryan Ward – is also going to quit soon.
So I guess we’ll see! Perhaps this is just to Eco-Turd can add a photo to their portfolio and show everyone how “in demand” their fences are. Look! Lampasas has one too! It’s awesome!