At Say NO to Bridge Tolls, Daniel Borsch has some very good questions -- bunches of them, in fact, broadly grouped in a file called "Usual Suspects."
As we await Donald Sutherland's arrival to provide insight (with the Washington Monument as backdrop), I'm left to ponder which questions we'd be asking in a New Albanian context.
On the other hand, we've been asking them, and the answers are as elusive here as across the river.
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Frost Brown Todd has been handed a $350 dollar an hour contract to represent the Bridges Project against unknown legal issues ($50,000 for the first month). Isn't Frost Brown Todd's Chairman Emeritus C. Edward Glasscock? Isn't Chairman Emeritus C. Edward Glasscock one of the most vocal advocates for the Bridges project and past Chairman of the Build the Bridges Coalition? Isn't Chairman Emeritus C. Edward Glasscock one of the owners of the Bats Baseball team? Don't the Bats lease Slugger field from the Downtown Development Corporation? Didn't Forbes just list the Bats as the forth most valuable AAA team? Wasn't Frost Brown Todd underwriters council to the Arena Authority? Isn't Dan Ulmer, managing partner of the Bats, on the Arena Authority? Didn't Chairman Emeritus C. Edward Glasscock provide legal representation to LGE, previous owners of highly contaminated property where the arena currently sits? Didn't Chairman Emeritus C. Edward Glasscock serve as chairman of the board at Bellarmine University (Bellarmine is the University that granted an honorary degrees to Lt. Governor Abramson in 2011 and hired him to teach. Bellarmine also granted honorary degrees to Governors Mitch Daniels and Steve Bashear in 2012 for their work on the Bridges Project). Don’t Joseph McGowan, President of Bellarmine University; Bill Samuels, current President of the Build the Bridges Coalition; and Paul Thompson, Sr., Senior Vice President for LGE, serve on the board of Downtown Development Corporation, the entity that sets the lease rate for Slugger Field? Isn't Bellarmine University where Mr. Manassah, former publisher of the Courier Journal, is currently employed? Don't Mr. Manassah and Chairman Emeritus C. Edward Glasscock serve on the Kentucky Indiana Exchange and Regional Leadership Coalition together (p.s. I agree we do need a bi-state revenue/taxing structure)? Didn't the Courier Journal advocate for the LGE site for the Arena and currently is advocating for a two Bridge project? For the life of me I just can't put the pieces of this puzzle together. Any thoughts?
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