And then....The subpoena, signed by council President Darlene Harris and five other members, directs that the data be turned over to James Allen, secretary of the state pension system, by noon Friday. (P-G, Joe Smydo)
The intended implication being that Mayor Ravenstahl was suppressing this data for some reason.
Who were the other five members who signed?
ReplyDeleteI can't say with certainty, but I'd be shocked if it weren't Dowd, Kraus, Peduto, Rudiak, & Shields.
ReplyDeleteharris lavelle peduto shields rudiak kraus? is that right?
ReplyDelete"Mayor Ravenstahl was suppressing this data for some reason."
ReplyDeletethe reason is because the Mayor is a real f'n jag off.
Mayor Ravenstahl was suppressing this data for some reason.
ReplyDeleteIt is likely that he is simply doing as instructed by those who stand to benefit from the proposed lease and the management of the pension assets.
A good explanation of it can be found here or here.
This speculation is all going to be academic by this weekend, but meanwhile I wonder: if the State has been inquiring after the data since summer of 2009 and getting stiffed by the City, isn't it more likely that the City was trying to cover up how BAD the pensions situation was getting? Mightn't this make the upshot of a state takeover even WORSE? To have been covering up how good we were doing for over 15 months -- and over the course of an election -- strikes me as some major Xanatos Roulette.
ReplyDelete"The subpoena was signed by Mrs. Harris and council members Bruce Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, William Peduto, Natalia Rudiak and Doug Shields." (P-G)
ReplyDeleteCurses, foiled again! My eyebrows be raised.
Apparently the state guy had told the Mayor's Office he would need the data to do an analysis, but hadn't formally requested the data. I'm not sure a conspiracy theory is necessary to explain the outcome.
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