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Posted on December 1 at 6:33 a.m.
The unfortunate reality is, unless someone files a formal complaint, the solicitor can't just go on a personal witchhunt. The other part of that reality is, these are some smart people. It appears they have covered themselves pretty well. Their weakness lies in the massive amount of paperwork (or lack thereof) supporting what Preston has done for the past 12 years. That "proof" either would have to be in the files, not ever been there, or been there and now has been shredded or altered. Those are the only four options out there.
Lamanamawhtevr, rbmcarty, Stupid, sophievoter and the others on here constantly crowing about proof, know Preston has denied anyone meaningful access to the records where the proof lies. The 50,000 pages Preston has claimed to deliver has had all meaningful information (that someone could use to follow the money) redacted.
If I could draw a parallel in a card game. One of the players at the table keeps turning up with aces every time they deal. You've played cards long enough to know that just doesn't happen in the real world. So you start to watch the questionable dealer every time he deals. You begin to notice when he deals you see alot of cupping of the deck, moves to his shirt pocket and alot of unnecessary flourishing of a handkerchief. He is doing all the things a cheater would do. Then on one of his deals, you spot it, the corner of a card sticking out of his shirt pocket. You immediately stop the deal and demand a count of the deck to prove he is holding out some cards and cheating. Although fair play would demand the dealer to comply, he whips out a ruling from the Supreme Court that says he doesn't have to show you anything, except at his leisure. He whips out a contract that says only a majority vote of all the players at the table can make him comply with the card count request. Although every player at the table SHOULD be concerned about another player cheating, oddly enough only two of the seven players vote for the dealer to show the cards. That would have to mean the other five players are either in collusion with the cheating or are too afraid of the dealer to challenge him.
So there you have it. We see the corner of the card sticking out of Preston's pocket, but Preston holds all the proof, as he holds all the original documents and is refusing a count of the deck. He has stonewalled, sued, delayed, made expensive and now orchestrated a segue out the door for himself and all his supporting team. Who will be left behind are the people who will bare the blame for what Preston has done and stood silent while he plundered us. They don't have contracts or high paid lawyers to avert blame for their actions. Although Preston, Martin and the exiting council members are doing the cleanup they needed to relieve themselves of legal liability and further investigation, they are also kicking to the curb everyone who helped them, colluded with them or enriched themselves through his actions.
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Posted on November 26 at 11:47 a.m.
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Posted on November 26 at 11:45 a.m.
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Posted on November 26 at 11:21 a.m.
While we are on the subject, why are the comments from the rumor story by Liz Carey blocked from being read by the public and why was the posting from CindyRoper this morning removed? Other than posing some hard questions and giving this newspaper heck for what I thought some very good points, there was nothing objectionable in that posting. Is this the best you can do to stop the truth from being told? How about some good journalism debunking whatever you claim to not be the case. I heard the voicemail from the AG's office and it seemed a direct contradiction to Liz Carey's story. Did she lie, did Plowden lie, or was it all just a big misunderstanding? Your practice of shooting the messenger, does not speak well to your intent.
Posted on November 26 at 11:09 a.m.
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Posted on November 21 at 1:34 p.m.
(I have no problem with repeating myself)
Odd, I don't recall having any kind of debate with you. I have merely read your endless propaganda and promotion of Preston. I don't find it funny, ironic, amazing, silly or any of the other adjectives you have chosen. The differences between you and I, my family has lived here since 1849, you claimed to have moved here in 2003. I personally know every single person I speak about, you do not seem to know anyone you speak about. You don't side with the administration 90% of the time, you side with the administration 100% of the time. Please direct our attention to any post, prior to the past few hours when it was brought to your attention, where you disagreed with anything Preston or the ousted members of council have ever said or done. No one has attacked you, I have merely pointed out how your endless soliloquies of support for Preston seem just a little too convenient to Preston's cause. I don't ever see you state facts to address issues at hand, but then you claim no one refutes your facts. You may state facts of some kind, but seldom are they on point. In fact that is your modus operandi, you list this long list of "facts" and then say see, you can't refute my facts, so I must be right.
Well, here you go. El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 -- the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913. The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. The San Andreas fault, which runs north-south, is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the City by the Bay in about 15 million years. The water of Angel Falls in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
So do you see how, by these facts I have stated, Preston is absolutely wrong in everything he is doing. If you cannot refute my facts, I must be right. That's about how your line of "debate" goes. I agree with some others here, you really aren't worth the time of day. As to camping out on these threads. I wouldn't say seven posts in three months is exactly camping out. Don't bother responding, thanks anyway. You have a nice day.
On Anderson County Council votes to release Preston from his contract for $1.14 million
Posted on November 21 at 1:06 p.m.
Odd, I don't recall having any kind of debate with you. I have merely read your endless propaganda and promotion of Preston. I don't find it funny, ironic, amazing, silly or any of the other adjectives you have chosen. The differences between you and I, my family has lived here since 1849, you claimed to have moved here in 2003. I personally know every single person I speak about, you do not seem to know anyone you speak about. You don't side with the administration 90% of the time, you side with the administration 100% of the time. Please direct our attention to any post, prior to the past few hours when it was brought to your attention, where you disagreed with anything Preston or the ousted members of council have ever said or done. No one has attacked you, I have merely pointed out how your endless soliloquies of support for Preston seem just a little too convenient to Preston's cause. I don't ever see you state facts to address issues at hand, but then you claim no one refutes your facts. You may state facts of some kind, but seldom are they on point. In fact that is your modus operandi, you list this long list of "facts" and then say see, you can't refute my facts, so I must be right.
Well, here you go. El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 -- the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913. The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. The San Andreas fault, which runs north-south, is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the City by the Bay in about 15 million years. The water of Angel Falls in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
So do you see how, by these facts I have stated, Preston is absolutely wrong in everything he is doing. If you cannot refute my facts, I must be right. That's about how your line of "debate" goes. I agree with some others here, you really aren't worth the time of day. As to camping out on these threads. I wouldn't say seven posts in three months is exactly camping out. Don't bother responding, thanks anyway. You have a nice day.
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Posted on November 21 at 11:47 a.m.
You say you are a “a political scientist” and have been in Anderson for five years. For all the time you spend on here trying to convince people Preston is an innocent man being badgered by CW and BW, the name calling, the condescension, the belittling, the name calling, the bogus information you post, the constant spin, your attempt to constantly dominate these threads with propaganda that is designed to lead people away from the idea that anything is amiss in our county government. All of it is just a little too, what’s the word I’m looking for… convenient to Preston’s cause. No one person so totally agrees with everything someone does. Especially, for you to be an outsider. You seem to have an opinion about every event, in every town and city in this county. You claim to know the inside scoop and try to convince people whatever Preston and the county government is or has done is perfectly legitimate. In reviewing all of your posts, in every instance, you have backed Preston and the lame duck council’s every move. There are about three or four of you who chime in and repeatedly clap each other on the back. Maybe you are all the same person. Maybe you are all working in concert. I don’t know, something just doesn’t quite add up with everything you have said. You spend all day, every day (one would have to wonder what kind of job permits that), on here trying to convince the public of one thing, Preston’s innocence of any malfeasance. One would almost have to believe you are a paid operative.
On Anderson County Council votes to release Preston from his contract for $1.14 million
Posted on November 21 at 11:39 a.m.
You say you are a “a political scientist” and have been in Anderson for five years. For all the time you spend on here trying to convince people Preston is an innocent man being badgered by CW and BW, the name calling, the condescension, the belittling, the name calling, the bogus information you post, the constant spin, your attempt to constantly dominate these threads with propaganda that is designed to lead people away from the idea that anything is amiss in our county government. All of it is just a little too, what’s the word I’m looking for… convenient to Preston’s cause. No one person so totally agrees with everything someone does. Especially, for you to be an outsider. You seem to have an opinion about every event, in every town and city in this county. You claim to know the inside scoop and try to convince people whatever Preston and the county government is or has done is perfectly legitimate. In reviewing all of your posts, in every instance, you have backed Preston and the lame duck council’s every move. There are about three or four of you who chime in and repeatedly clap each other on the back. Maybe you are all the same person. Maybe you are all working in concert. I don’t know, something just doesn’t quite add up with everything you have said. You spend all day, every day (one would have to wonder what kind of job permits that), on here trying to convince the public of one thing, Preston’s innocence of any malfeasance. One would almost have to believe you are a paid operative.
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Posted on December 1 at 7:04 a.m.
The forensic audit is so feared by these people, because they cannot redact information or hide from auditors with free access to the records.
So you see, if Preston isn't allowing anyone else to count the deck, then he can continue to crow, "prove I am cheating" because he holds all the cards. Until we get our hands on the deck, we will not be able to prove anything to the satisfaction of a court. That is why he has made getting our hands (in a meaningful way and not just 50,000 pages of meaningless records) an impossible task. He has hidden behind legal maneuvers, lawyers, long protracted legal actions, frozen the FOI process with the cooperation of Liz Carey (if you recall Carey asked for every FOI ever issued by Preston's office, thereby clogging up the legitimate FOI requests by a huge backlog of Carey requests) and now is having his accomplices on county council give him a walk with a severance agreement that does not permit us to pursue Preston, no matter what we find in an audit after he leaves. Pretty slick maneuvering.
Now I ask you, of the four options regarding the proof in the records. Are these the actions of people who fall under the first category (everything on the up and up as they claim with full records and documentation to explain their use of tax money) or the other three options (records never been there, not there now or have been altered)?
Letting someone off the hook, before we even count the cards, tells me these people don't fall into the first category (everything on the up and up).
You might well ask, what is the corner of the card sticking out of the dealer’s pocket? The corner of the card is in our code of ordinances covering procurement.
Sec. 2-640. Purchases not exceeding $500.00.
Any procurement of goods or services where the estimated cost is $500.00 or less, excluding tax, may be made without competition if the Purchasing director certifies that the price is deemed to be "fair and reasonable". Additional competition may be obtained whenever there is a reason to believe a quotation does not represent a fair and reasonable price.
If you take a close look at the credit card purchases over the past 12 years, you will see alot of purchases in excess of $500.01 routinely broken down into smaller purchases of equal amounts all less than !gasp! $500.01. You will note it has occurred many times related to exorbitant hotel and travel costs, but has also happened way too many times as a regular course of business, to just be happenstance or a fluke. It is clearly an attempt to circumvent the oversight and audit process. We will know more after a comprehensive audit. I just hope Preston and the other lame duck council members are not able to exercise too much revenge on us before leaving office. Their current actions, speak more clearly to me where their sentiments and intentions have been all along, than anything else they have done.
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