GALONSKY, DE LOS SANTOS TUSSLE OVER TENASKA WHILE RATEPAYERS LOSE PATIENCE

 

At last night's city commission meeting, Commissioner Galonsky, a former P.U.B. Board member, asked if any of the commissioners had "reached out" to the P.U.B. Board to bring up the Tenaska scandal.

"I have," responded Commissioner De los Santos.

"When?" asked Galonsky.

"Yesterday," said De los Santos.

Galonsky then made a call for giving the P.U.B. more time to deal with this matter.

Actually, P.U.B. has had more than enough time, at least nine years.

Brownsville students, who were in middle school when it was decided that the Tenaska Power Plant ratepayers had paid for would not be built, have now finished high school, college, married and started families and are paying the extraordinary electric power rates now encumbering them.

Three years ago, this blog received the following comment about Tenaska:

"Old news'???? What was done was ILLEGAL! 

Just because a theft occurred in the past does not mean it has now become irrelevant.

 Taxpayers are still paying these costs to this very day. 

As a taxpayer, I agree with Jim Barton that this issue needs to be resolved and ASAP. 

The phony story that the excess was to be 'invested' in improvements to public service has proven to be a LIE. 

THAT is criminal activity and should be prosecuted under the law. Bruciak's attorney's claim that accounting for rates paid would uncover 'proprietary information' is tantamount to saying that dark money deserves privacy and protection, neither of which are true! 

Clearly Bruciak is a well-moneyed, power-hungry grifter who doesn't mind stealing other people's hard-earned money!"

All of the current city commissioners, as well as Mayor Juan "Trey" Mendez ran for office with a promise of recovering the monies ratepayers had been bilked for Tenaska.

Ben Neece

Even Ben Neece, who Jerry McHale keeps telling us is running for mayor, made that promise.

To Neece's credit, he did work hard for a proprietary audit, but P.U.B. has artfully dodged refunding ratepayers.

Nine years is too damn long to wait!