{"id":7482,"date":"2023-12-04T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:14:44","slug":"cc-commissioner-chairman-kevin-gordon-tells-tall-tales-at-ccgop-monthly-meeting-november-30-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2023\/12\/04\/cc-commissioner-chairman-kevin-gordon-tells-tall-tales-at-ccgop-monthly-meeting-november-30-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Commissioner Chairman Kevin Gordon tells Tall -Tales!! at CCGOP Monthly Meeting, November 30, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s Note: The Cleveland County Justice Center Project is the largest, most complex and most expensive single project ever undertaken by the Cleveland County Commissioners. The Project was conceived in relative secrecy and the costs were way under-estimates at $90 Million$. Presently the cost estimates have doubled and may double again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tIn regard to Robert A\u2019s well-informed and well-founded comment at the CC GOP\u2019s Monthly Meeting held on November 30, 2023; that the County was BROKE because of the Justice Center Project\u2019s major cost over-runs (caused by the serious mis-management and deceptions by the Cleveland County Commissioners). A true statement that Robert A has alleged and proven many times over. Verbally and in print. Commissioner Chairman Kevin Gordon falsely replied \u201cthe County is NOT broke.\u201d That the Budget proved it. \u201cLook it up\u201d retorts Kevin Gordon. without a peep of explanation or truth. Totally knowing that Robert A was 100% correct and that the Commissioners go to great lengths to hide the truth from Robert A and to the public at large. But sooner or later Robert A finds out. But, also totally knowing 100% that Nobody else in any leadership position at that CC GOP \u201cLovefest\u201d of a meeting would ever look up such a thing for themselves.<\/p>\n

\tOf course, Robert A had already looked into the County Budget. That was where Robert A found out about the secret Justice Center Project in the first place. And that was several years before. And then immediately warned the citizens of Cleveland County that a $90 million dollar project was being planned for Cleveland County. And that Robert A had questioned the Commissioners judgement about such a costly project for years now. A project that Robert A\u2019s experience indicated would cost $90 Million several times over in the best of times.
\n\tRobert A also knew that the Justice Center Project was doomed to financial failure from the start. That such a reality would never ever be shown anywhere in a \u201cBudget\u201d all by itself-as budgets alone are not the proper venue for tracking construction progress, status and ongoing costs.<\/p>\n

But folks, this article is NOT intended to explain to all you taxpayers that Kevin Gordon et. al. is wasting your hard-earned money on the ill-conceived and even more ill-managed Justice Center Project. Many of you have figured that out all by yourselves. The purpose of this article is to show that the facts of the matter are already out. And that Commissioner Chairman Kevin Gordon\u2019s wrecking Cleveland County\u2019s financial well-being has become known by others along the way<\/p>\n

1.Look at what the Political Smackdown Commentator Mike Philbeck says, in in the September 17, 2023 broadcast, that if Cleveland County does NOT get more State Funding for the Justice Center Project, the project is in great peril. According to Philbeck\u2019s own words in regard to the new \u201cCourthouse\u201d Project, that \u201cyou had better be praying\u201d that the County gets the money in the new (2023-2024) State Budget and it had better be approved soon, or \u201cthere will be broad implications on that Courthouse\u2019s FUTURE.\u201d (Note that Political Smackdown also has reasonable and serious doubts regarding the solvency of the Cleveland County Commissioner\u2019s present financial stability regarding the Justice Center Project.<\/p>\n

Mike Philbeck\u2019s exact comment:<\/p>\n