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Now THIS is a whale of a scandal!
1 posted on 03/18/2007 11:14:39 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Expressway offices fuel criticism (excerpt from Olando Sentinel)

With steel girders reaching more than 55 feet in the air, the new $24.3 million headquarters of the region's toll-road agency is taking shape next to the busiest stretch of State Road 408.

But while the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority sees the new 81,000-square-foot building with its three-story atrium as a symbol of progress and the future, motorists such as Kevin Mueller see it as evidence of the embattled agency's extravagance.

"It sticks out like a sore thumb -- like a castle on the hill," said Mueller, an Orlando software engineer who has watched construction progress as he slows to pay the 75-cent toll on his commute. "I don't know if they need it or not. I just thought it sends the wrong signal."

The new building is four times the size of the agency's current headquarters. And while it will be open to the public, it will be mostly office and meeting space for use by expressway employees and their contractors.

The building's size and cost, and the authority's decision to provide office space for its contractors, make the headquarters seem like a mistake to the authority's newest board member.

"If I were looking at this from a pure business decision, I wouldn't have done it," said Harvey Massey, who was appointed to the authority by Gov. Charlie Crist in February.

For more of the story: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/growth/orl-xway13x07mar13,0,4008301.story?coll=orl-news-growth-headlines

2 posted on 03/18/2007 11:22:35 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I'm BAAAAAAAA-aaaaaaaack!!!)
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Interesting, I wonder how many other talk show hosts get paid to keep their mouth shut or to support or oppose a position.


3 posted on 03/18/2007 11:23:50 AM PDT by FLOutdoorsman (“For, if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in a dry?”)
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I love it when a crooked plan comes together falls apart.


4 posted on 03/18/2007 11:26:32 AM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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The details of Orlando' s inside-deals came to light when a relatively small number of Guetzloe' financial documents were released by prosecutors. In January 2007, when the political consultant failed to pay the rent on his self-storage unit, the contents some 80 boxes of personal, political and financial records going back decades were auctioned off. The winner turned them over to a TV news reporter, and now prosecutors want a look at them.

Oops.

5 posted on 03/18/2007 11:26:43 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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One can only imagine how much worse this will be in Texas if that awful nearly statewide toll road system is built here.

Politicians are making it harder and harder for the public to have any confidence in them. Too many of them have gone over to the dark side--with a seemingly insatiable thirst to have their palms greased.

8 posted on 03/18/2007 11:39:43 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment rights--buy another gun today.)
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Wow! I didn't know newspapers still did this muck-raking stuff! That leads me to my next (rather cynical) question: I wonder what political party Guetzloe is affiliated with...


10 posted on 03/18/2007 11:50:54 AM PDT by rockrr (Never argue with a man who buys ammo in bulk...)
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