Letters of Support from Mayor Slay, Sen. Coleman and Rep. Daus
Lost among the litter that is the McDonald’s on Grand controversy is the attempt to pass off three letters as support for the McDonald’s drive-thru. In February and again this month during public hearings on the conditional use variance for a drive-thru three letters were being passed off as supporting the project. They were in support of the senior housing on the current McDonald’s site. In fact, the word “McDonald’s” was not mentioned in any of the three.
The letters, from Mayor Slay, State Sen. Maida Coleman and State Rep. Mike Daus were all written in October 2005 as Pyramid was seeking support from the Missouri Housing Development Commission, aka MHDC.
But, you don’t have to take my work for it. You can read the letters yourself:
Clearly city’s staff failed to actually read the letters when they stated they had letters of support for the project. The only other option would be that they read the letters but knowingly passed them off as letters of support on the chance that nobody would request copies under Missouri’s Sunshine Law.
Without these letters of “support” the only people on record supporting the drive-thru for McDonald’s, Jennifer Florida and the folks from Pyramid Construction.
Alderwoman Florida’s misuse of these three elected officials’ words and reputations is truly outrageous. I wrote the three of them yesterday to advise of same but haven’t yet heard back.
Why would these officials support a multi-phase project by a company that has proven that it cannot complete a multi-phase project (Keystone Place)?
Oh, wait: How much did Pyramid pay these folks?
Steve:
couldn’t get the slay pdf to open–drop me an email? gratzie! Hey btw, heard your meeting went well!!