According to P-G Early Returns, "Mr. Bodack has now fired back with his own letter, promising full documentation of his use of city resources, and taking umbrage at Mr. Dowd's inferences."My advice to you, Mr. Dowd, is that you'd better stick to attacking me. Mary Kay and the rest of my staff are way out of your league.
The Dowd campaign has retaliated with a spreadsheet that purports to illustrate payments made from Council to consultants of Mr. Bodack, including this Mary Kay Abdulovic, suggesting what the Comet can only describe as a Carlislian Scheme.
Looking at the payments, some of them could have been bundles of invoices turned in by a consultant for work done during the year, to be approved before the end of the year. On the other hand, four sets of $1000 or $750 payments, each submitted over three or four sequential months does look suspicious, like the consultant was submitting charges at some particular lower level of approval limit, that just avoided oversight. Doesn’t mean the work wasn’t legitimate, but if a consultant was promised 13 grand or six grand, maybe it would have been better to just pay them that sum and have the oversight.
ReplyDeleteI guess his district office charges are petty cash, not rent (since the amounts go up and down). It would be nice to have documentation for those charges, but ninety five hundred over three years doesn’t seem like a huge payoff scheme with city money (the worst possible read you could put on it). It’s more like office supplies.
My advice to you, Mr. Dowd, is that you'd better stick to attacking me. Mary Kay and the rest of my staff are way out of your league.
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone is a fan of Michael Douglas in his role as President Adny Sheppard in "The American President"