Coffey: “This smells of the type of government that people are fed up with."

Let's look at the glass as half-full: At least they met at a local eatery (Tucker's American Favorites) and not Subway or McDonald's. That's a plus, I think, although it probably didn't occur to any of them at the time.

Given that the city seems intent on bending over backwards to appease the penniless Levee View team, perhaps they should have brown-bagged it to a chiropractor's office.

Lunch meeting over River View under scrutiny; Coffey: Benedetti, Zurschmiede should have held meeting before commission, by Daniel Suddeath (Pop Up World Digest)

... But Councilman Dan Coffey — who sat on the redevelopment commission before resigning in 2009 due to his disagreement over the handling of property negotiations with CCE Inc. — said the lunch meeting was unethical considering the scope of the development. “If they were going to hold a meeting like that, they should have held it during the redevelopment meeting for everybody to gather the information,” Coffey said Thursday. “This smells of the type of government that people are fed up with. I’m extremely disappointed that they chose to go this route.”