Comments on: Meis was questioned regarding conflict of interest

By: Curmudgeon

Curmudgeon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:59:03 +0000

Oh, well, if Lyle Dechant said it was ok….
Wait…you mean “M. Lyle Dechant”?
As in, “Maurice Lyle Dechant”?
nevermind, he’s an idiot.

By: Classof52

Classof52 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:47:57 +0000

continued:
Since Black Hills Petroleum is an acknowledged contributer to the political campaign of of Commissioner Meis and since his Company does business in several areas with Delta Petroleum, the whole affair once again has that bad odor of conflict of interest. It isperfectly legitimate for Mr. Robinson to ask: Whose interests are the County Commissioners serving??????

By: Classof52

Classof52 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:45:12 +0000

Mike Gardner does not know the facts here and Mr. Robinson does. We have obtained documents concerning the whole proposed Temporary Employee Housing Amedments question through the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA). These are most revealing. The documents demonstrate among other things for example that the proposed language of the amendments has routinely been coordinated at every step along the way with representatives of Delta Petroleum, Black Hills Petroleum, Plains Exploration and Production Company, and several other oil and gas or oil service companies. Letters and emails have flown back and forth between the County Commissioners and such people as John Martini who spoke longly and loudly at the meeting in favor of leaving the emendments as they were (i.e. without adequate protection for the land owner).
Commissioner Rowland excused this by saying that it was just communicating with the public!! Yet no such information was provided to the Western Colorado Congress whose legitimate interest in this issue is a matter of public record.