NEW LETTER ON DAVID ISRAEL'S BLOG
I am not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be. Yes, having been around them for my whole life I have picked up a few things, but when I need legal advice or have a question or contract, then I hire an attorney. That makes sense. Please keep that in mind as we return to that thought in a few lines.
So today David Israel is ranting and raving about a letter he received from an attorney apparently connected to the issue of the roads and the paving job or not - as it was never really done properly!. The date of the letter is August 5. Today is August 18. That means thirteen days have gone by before David Israel decided to make this public. Why so long? Because there were days that his car disappeared from the lot when he usually hung around and what makes sense is that he consulted his attorney, for which insurance is paying - insurance that is included in our payments to UCO.
This is what the attorney advised him? I do not know. I was not a fly on the wall, but if so, this is pretty weak. It appears that some governmental regulation requires these groups to state that they have projects or organized activities or something along that line. PRPC has in its name - projects - so I am not seeing the big deal here if one has to jump through governmental hoops. It is done all the time. BUT - this is what he is arguing? This is what he has to say about the contents? Truly, that is pathetic.
Back to what I wrote before, about contracts, questions and attorneys. It is common sense that when one is spending money, large sums, that one have a contract to spell out the terms and responsibilities as well as deadlines and consequences if terms are not met. Weeellllll, seems this was NOT done with the paving job of a mere FIVE MILLION dollars. A one page of a contract for this type of project? One page for five million dollars/ One page for a complicated and huge job such as this was? And no, that's right, NO attorney ever looked it over. No attorney who had experience in this area, with this type of contract, with the enormity of the project. Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do!
We, the residents of CV did not make a contract with M&M Paving - UCO did and we trusted UCO to insure that all would be done properly. Instead, UCO and its officers, led by David Israel, betrayed us. NO contract attorney, no project manager, no performance bond, an uneven job - to say the least - and a crappy job at that! UCO fell down on its responsibilities towards us, the residents and failed miserably in its duties as financial guardians of our Village. It was sloppy, perhaps criminally negligent, and ruinous of our Village and its finances for YEARS to come.
David Israel must answer for his deeds and answer questions and let us find out if there was anything else we should know about? Did someone shake hands so nicely here? Was that it? Or were our UCO leaders just dumb? Were they just negligent in their duties? But whatever the answer is, they MUST answer to it and face the issues they themselves brought upon themselves. And why are they to sue M&M? Very simple - we, the residents cannot because UCO made the contract (such as it was) and as such they, and only they, can sue. Whatever the fault of UCO and David Israel in particular, the truth is that M&M Paving did not uphold its responsibilities, did not do a proper job at the paving.
So what is David Israel yelling about? Beats me. It is all sound and fury signifying nothing, just an attempt to enshroud the suit and its causes in a fog of nonsense. The facts are the facts and David Israel must face up to them. He took the responsibility upon himself and thus it rests on his shoulders - good or bad.
DAVID ISRAEL, JUST ANSWER THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS AND STOP TRYING TO HIDE BEHIND NONSENSICAL STATEMENTS. ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTIONS. YOU WILL HAVE TO, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, SO GET ON WITH IT.
So today David Israel is ranting and raving about a letter he received from an attorney apparently connected to the issue of the roads and the paving job or not - as it was never really done properly!. The date of the letter is August 5. Today is August 18. That means thirteen days have gone by before David Israel decided to make this public. Why so long? Because there were days that his car disappeared from the lot when he usually hung around and what makes sense is that he consulted his attorney, for which insurance is paying - insurance that is included in our payments to UCO.
This is what the attorney advised him? I do not know. I was not a fly on the wall, but if so, this is pretty weak. It appears that some governmental regulation requires these groups to state that they have projects or organized activities or something along that line. PRPC has in its name - projects - so I am not seeing the big deal here if one has to jump through governmental hoops. It is done all the time. BUT - this is what he is arguing? This is what he has to say about the contents? Truly, that is pathetic.
Back to what I wrote before, about contracts, questions and attorneys. It is common sense that when one is spending money, large sums, that one have a contract to spell out the terms and responsibilities as well as deadlines and consequences if terms are not met. Weeellllll, seems this was NOT done with the paving job of a mere FIVE MILLION dollars. A one page of a contract for this type of project? One page for five million dollars/ One page for a complicated and huge job such as this was? And no, that's right, NO attorney ever looked it over. No attorney who had experience in this area, with this type of contract, with the enormity of the project. Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do!
We, the residents of CV did not make a contract with M&M Paving - UCO did and we trusted UCO to insure that all would be done properly. Instead, UCO and its officers, led by David Israel, betrayed us. NO contract attorney, no project manager, no performance bond, an uneven job - to say the least - and a crappy job at that! UCO fell down on its responsibilities towards us, the residents and failed miserably in its duties as financial guardians of our Village. It was sloppy, perhaps criminally negligent, and ruinous of our Village and its finances for YEARS to come.
David Israel must answer for his deeds and answer questions and let us find out if there was anything else we should know about? Did someone shake hands so nicely here? Was that it? Or were our UCO leaders just dumb? Were they just negligent in their duties? But whatever the answer is, they MUST answer to it and face the issues they themselves brought upon themselves. And why are they to sue M&M? Very simple - we, the residents cannot because UCO made the contract (such as it was) and as such they, and only they, can sue. Whatever the fault of UCO and David Israel in particular, the truth is that M&M Paving did not uphold its responsibilities, did not do a proper job at the paving.
So what is David Israel yelling about? Beats me. It is all sound and fury signifying nothing, just an attempt to enshroud the suit and its causes in a fog of nonsense. The facts are the facts and David Israel must face up to them. He took the responsibility upon himself and thus it rests on his shoulders - good or bad.
DAVID ISRAEL, JUST ANSWER THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS AND STOP TRYING TO HIDE BEHIND NONSENSICAL STATEMENTS. ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTIONS. YOU WILL HAVE TO, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, SO GET ON WITH IT.
Nice post Esther. The fact of the matter seems to be the Great One knows not what to do about all this. It is beyond his world of experience. What he should do, but would never do, is admit he was wrong and move on and to try to correct it. But the arrogance of Power wont permit it. So guess what? We will have to do it for him.
ReplyDeleteEsther has hit the nail on the head again. The Schmagegie is a named defendant in the S & K lawsuit. Who is speaking for himself or the village. Who is begging, HE IS. He is begging for himself. He is not thinking for the village. Has he asked the village if they want to get reparations for the lousy work. Methinks that David is worried that he will be the only one named in what he calls a new lawsuit, as well he should be. The millions he wasted of our money is not on his mind.
ReplyDeleteDO NOT HIDE UNDER THE DESK DAVID STAND UP LIKE A MAN NOT ON YOUR KNEES LIKE A VAONCE........