While hundreds of people showed for the hearing, missing was Mayor Bob Correia or a representative of his office.
“I knew about the hearing but I had the School Committee (Wednesday) night, but to that extent I should have paid more attention to the hearing.” Correia said Thursday he did not send a staff member to the hearing either, but called that decision an “oversight.”
Despite not having a presence at Wednesday’s hearing, Correia asserted the defeat of any plans to locate an LNG terminal in Fall River remains one of his priorities.
Months ago, we heard Mayor Correia commit to the defeat of this LNG project when he met with the Coalition for the Responsible Siting of LNG (full video here).
Mayor Correia promised to "do everything I humanly/willingly can do to prevent it from happening, as the chief executive of this city." Yet, when FERC held its public hearing, he did not attend the meeting or even send a representative to deliver a statement for his administration.
Last year, $650,000 was appropriated to fund the legal battle against LNG. At this meeting the Mayor promised, "if more funds are necessary, I will go to the Council and request a transfer of funds." However, Mayor Correia didn't have to request additional funds from the City Council. Instead, the Mayor cut the budget for the legal defense from $650,000 in FY08 to $250,000 for FY09.
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I was unable to attend the school committee meeting, but from what I have been told the mayor did not stay for the whole meeting. Apparently he had somewhere else to be. To Scooby the school committee meeting will be continued this wednesday.
Can this be confirmed, after all that the mayor didn't even stay at that very important meeting that stopped him from attending the
LNG hearing ???
Well, usually school committee meetings are aired on television, but I don't recall seeing this meeting on television yet.
I guess, the key part would be to know what time he left, and the duration of the FERC hearing.
It could be possible that by the time the Mayor left the School Committee meeting, if that is true, that the FERC hearing could have already been over.
Maybe he had a funeral to attend and left early or they could have scheduled the school committee mtg on a Friday at 1pm I'm sure everyone could make it !!
His previous record speaks volumes.
During the election he stated that he did the most to stop LNG. He said he got his bill to the gov's desk but Romney vetoed it.
That was an out right LIE! The Governor took that mess of a bill and took off the things he did not like. He even declared he was against the Fall River LNG project and wondered why Bob's bill was attached to a poison pill.
Gov Romeny then sent Bob's bill back to the House declaring that if they sent it back to him he would sign it. NO VETO!!! As Bob has said.
The bill went back and Bob allowed it to die. The herald News even has an article:
http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17041675&BRD=1710&PAG=461&dept_id=99784&rfi=8
I am surprised that the Herald News did not take Bob Correia to task for lieing about the Gov vetoing his part of the bill. This would have set off bells last year during the election. (there is also an article in the Std times about this)
Plus....why did the Herald News never follow-up on this?? It clearly states that Joan Menard would push this through during informal session. But it never was.
Plus...no comment by Bob Correia himself.
I can just picture him saying to the Senator: Do not say anything more, I have no plans to move this bill. I just wanted to look good, but DiMassi and Cashman said it will not fly.
Damn it, the Gov was supposed to veto everything, not send my bill back.
maybe he will write another letter to the herald news as a guest editor read the 7/1 letter, please stop the propaganda.
The problem is he can't answere a question unless the letter or speach his written for him .
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