Friday, July 17, 2009

Shades of Watergate

It appears that the tapes for the past park board meeting have disappeared. How coincidental that such a thing should occur. So that you know this is not a “grassy knoll” statement I have included the actual response to the freedom of information act requesting a copy of the tapes. The person who usually takes care of these matters and has done a great job in doing so over the many years should not be blamed for this situation. It appears that someone, who may have made some remarks during the meeting, did not want the public to know what was said and could have intentionally removed the two tapes in question. Hmmmm I wonder who that could have been?


From: "Diana Stapp"
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:39:28 -0500
Subject: Application for Public Information #09-274
Dear Requestor:

The City of League City has received your Application for Public Information regarding “audio copy of the Parks Board meeting held on July 8, 2009” (#09-274)

The City has processed your request through the Parks Department. They advised they are unable to locate Tape 1 and 2 of the meeting. They were able to locate Tape 3 which was found still in the recorder. Do you want a copy of Tape 3? The recording was done on a microcassette recorder and the only available duplication is to play in real time onto a regular size cassette recorder. Let me know if you will want a copy of the one tape.

Please feel free to contact me if you should have any questions.

Diana Stapp, Records Supervisor
City Secretary's Office
281-554-1034
281-554-1035 (fax)

City of League City, 300 West Walker, League City, Texas 77573

13 comments:

BHL said...

I didn't know the HPD Crime Labs maintained LC Parks Board tapes.

Serously CJM, What you are implying goes beyond normal politics. It borders on accusing an individual of intentional criminal activity. Be careful.

Chris John Mallios said...

I am not accusing anyone of anything just reporting the facts.

Marc Edelman said...
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Marc Edelman said...

Chris tell us who you think took them? Me? BHL? Neil? Please share the facts with us.

Chris John Mallios said...

I will wait until the investigation is done.

Marc Edelman said...

Sounds prudent.

P. Moratto said...

Chris, I must thank you. You weirdos of the lunatic fringe provide us such great entertainment on the cheap. You loons of the grassy knoll probably also believe the earth is round. Oh, excuuuse me, spherical. Well, slap me cross-eyed. I'll bet you also believe that even though we can't fly people to Dallas for $19.95, we somehow managed to fly all the way to the moon and back.
So who snatched the tapes? My money's on the skunk.

Mrs. Glen Cove Resident said...

Marc and Paul:

Who benefits from missing tape 1 and 2?
The tail did not wag this dog, and it is over and hopefully forgotten. Let us all focus on our infrastructure, storm water drainage, flooding, etc.

Peace
Ke-mo sah-bee

P. Moratto said...

Mrs GCR: "Somebody" is supposed to be in charge of directing an order of business for the board. What we saw was a free-for-all travesty with no cohesive sense of direction. The "plan," if there was one, seemed to be to let the people speak in favor of the board's predisposed decision, so that the board could appear to be responding to their will, without a "plan B" in the event that the overwhelming majority were vehemently opposed. That "somebody" would benefit by having the evidence disappear.
Then there's the skunk, whose ego must have felt royally trampled by the reaction to her outrageous remarks and action. She would benefit.
There are no other suspects. It was one of those two.
No, it should not be forgotten. Heads should roll, or else this sort of thing is sure to come back and bite us on the ass. You know good and well that the dog people park lobby is not going to give up this easily. They are surely plotting their next attack, even as we speak.

Jamey Holley said...

Paul:

The Earth is round? Come on, don't pull my leg like that! And what's this business about flying to the moon?

As far as who took the tapes ... What the hell? Just blame me! I have been faulsly accused of MUCH WORSE!

Paul, who is "The Skunk" you speak of? She doesn't happen to the same initials of ... Let's just say ... Philly Sandwich?

P. Moratto said...

No, but a good guess. The skunk is CF, and her first name is CARRION or something oderously close to that.

Jamey Holley said...

GOTCHA!

Chris Stevens said...

Someone may want to restart this thread soon...

League City police probing missing tapes

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