TDOT: Steering money to friends?
NewsChannel 5 in Nashville has a cutting edge investigative report on the business of making money inside your state government. You must read the entire article.
A NewsChannel 5 investigation first revealed how a Capitol Hill lobbyist is pushing for toll roads in Tennessee.
Now, it turns out, this lobbyist may be using her inside connections to also go after millions of dollars in state contracts.
Which raises all sorts of questions about the process that the Bredesen administration has used to spend more than $200 million for highway consultants.
Among them: why would a company feel it needed to hire an insider to get state contracts?Even Tennessee Department of Transportation officials admit that, if they wanted to, they could legally steer your money to their friends.
The full story is here.
Timeline of TDOT Contacts with Velma Jones and Related Documents from
Feb 27, 2007 08:23 PM is here.
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[...] years of raiding our road fund, legislators inspired by the lobbying efforts of former Bredesen staffer turned lobbyist girlfriend of the House Transportation Committee Chairman, succeeded in persuading [...]
By terryfrank.net » Tennessee Toll Roads on 02.26.08 6:45 am
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