Like we really didn’t know BexarMet was delaying

November 20, 2008

BexarMet delayed the release of contract

As the Bexar Metropolitan Water District was fighting for its life last year in the Texas Legislature, the utility stalled the release of public information that could have shed light on a controversial contract worth an estimated $177 million.

“I want us to delay anything as long as we can,” BexarMet’s spokesman, T.J. Connolly, privately wrote in an e-mail to BexarMet’s lawyer and general manager on April 17, 2007.

“I want to be as uncooperative as possible … without being obvious,” Connolly added.

Our first posts on Bexar Met came over a year and a half ago. The information that has been coming out in the last few weeks isn’t really a surprise, it was obvious they were playing loose and arrogant as hell. Now, I have to say it is a tad surprising these people were arrogant enough to put these things down in writing but that just goes to show how far arrogance can go.

The sad thing is that this isn’t what Gil Olivares was fired for and this isn’t what the indictments cover. This is just business as usual.

PR man said he had secret weapon

“I just want to know what to expect so I can privately prepare,” Connolly wrote to Uresti on May 18, 2007. “Again, your response will be read only by me and deleted immediately. My word.”

You know, this is just sad. T.J. Connolly was supposed to be so very politically savvy shouldn’t he know that the congressman’s emails are on the record. I suppose if nothing else it gives us all a little peek into the way local politics runs.

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