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Ethics Complaints Filed Against City Councilors

Last Update: 2/11/2009 9:53 pm
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Two Tulsa city councilors are in the spotlight after a citizen files an ethics complaint against them.  FOX 23's Douglas Clark uncovered the details.
 
At the center of the complaint is a proposed bank to be built at the corner of 13th and Lewis.  The complaint questions the role of two city councilors who approved the project. 
 
A St. John Credit Union is slated to be built at the corner of 13th Place and Lewis Avenue.  The city council approved the project on October 30th.
 
Now an ethics complaint has been filed against two city councilors who voted in favor of the project.  The author believes the two “are receiving some sort of compensation from the credit union.” 
 
The author of the complaint also raises questions about a stack of letters written to the council in support of the project, handed out during the council meeting.  He says one was written by someone who is “not a resident” in the area.  He also says an address on one of the letters “does not exist.”
 
The author of the ethics complaint speculates the “real estate company or the credit union company are the ones who wrote these letters” supporting the project.
 
The complainant wants to know why, as he alleges, one of the councilors in question went door to door telling residents “how good this project was for them.” 
 
At the time of the council vote, seven citizens came forward to voice their concerns about the project.  And the author of the complaint wants to know why, as he puts it, “people that did not attend the meeting have more say on this project than the parties that did attend.” 
 
The city auditing department will hand the complaints off to the city clerk, who will then forward the matter to the city council.  In such matters, it is the council’s responsibility to investigate whether there was any wrongdoing.  The councilors in questions can recuse themselves from the investigating committee. 
 
FOX 23 News has chosen not to identify the councilors named in the complaint until more evidence is presented and the council decides whether to take action. 
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arthurd - 2/14/2009 4:26 PM
Without informing their constituents in advance, another two Tulsa city councilors (Patrick & Gomez) got city council approval,last fall, for a 76-unit homeless shelter for downtown's mentally-ill, recovering drug addicts and others at 10 N. Yale. 10 N. Yale is within a 10-minute walk of more than 2,000 students at 4 public schools (3 elementary & 1 high school) and less than 4 blocks from one of Tulsa's biggest gun stores (Dong's). Do I hear anyone but me saying the words "ticking time bomb?" With friends like the 9 folks on Tulsa's city council, I see a very bleak future for the citizens of this city. Maybe that's why so many people are moving to the suburbs.

8bud500 - 2/12/2009 8:46 PM
Its great to see someone stand up and take a shot at these people {con artists, legal thieves, embezzlers}known as our city councilors, who have been ripping the Tulsa taxpayers off for more than a decade now. Lets keep digging and who knows we might just find our Mayor had her hands in some of these things too or turned a blind eye at least.

JWSuffridge - 2/12/2009 8:01 AM
I know how they feel. Just about anything that gets that kind of energetic support from anyone connected to the City of Tulsa makes me wonder who's getting paid off. I hope these residents have more than what pretty much amounts to a gut feeling, though, or they're just wasting their time.



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