This could also be titled Mike versus the LEDC – or maybe even Genius versus Dummies.
In Tuesday’s Dispatch, there was a front-page article about Mike Irvin’s plans for some more development over by the creek.
As you might recall, Mike Irvin is the guy responsible for more “economic development” and job creation in this City in the last 4 years than the LEDC has done in 20 years (which is zero). THEN the LEDC passed him over to sit on the LEDC board last week. But nobody ever accused Misti Talbert of having a high IQ, that is for certain!
His commentary in The Dispatch is scathing and comical:
“Irvin criticized the ECD for spending millions of dollars on a business park that has not brought in any revenue to the City. He said funds would be better served on developing within the active city limits rather than outside it.”
OUCH! Preach, brother Irvin! Testify!
But there’s more ass reaming dealt out in the next paragraph:
“Currently, it [the Business Pork] is too far out of town. The terrain there is not conducive to a business park,” Irvin said. ‘They spent a lot of money out there that could have been used to improve inside the town.”
WOW! The terrain is not conducive to a business park?!? Would have been nice to hear that 10 years ago before a passel of chimpanzees wasted many, many millions out there – something I have been yelling about since I first started this blog in July of 2018.
The most EGREGIOUS waste of money was the last round [Feb 2022] when Misti herself went to her former council chums and pilfered almost a MILLION DOLLARS of ‘Covid money’ for her retarded project. That money (according to Finley himself) basically had ZERO strings attached and could have been used for just about ANYTHING in the City.
Her fellow girl bosses on City council (Monroe and Kuehne) couldn’t hand over the dough fast enough.
Ultimately, a clueless dunce was allowed to throw that good Covid money after bad and incinerate it on a ‘business pork’ built on terrain that is not even conducive to a business pork!
Holy shit. Somebody call the police. Irvin just publicly murdered the entire LEDC in broad daylight.