CFGers in Ft. Mitchell Condemn KLC, Stand Up to Apologist Mayor
Two Kentucky Club for Growth members on the Ft. Mitchell City Council -- Chris Wiest and Will Terwort -- are some of the few in Kentucky who are not only condemning the actions of KACo and the KLC but doing something about it:
A majority of Fort Mitchell City Council is upset that a Kentucky League of Cities executive spent taxpayer dollars at a Las Vegas strip club.
That $80 charge on a Kentucky League of Cities' credit card in 2006 and more recent questionable expenditures by the league's staff prompted Fort Mitchell City Council to adopt a resolution last week calling for more accountability in the league's spending practices.
The resolution calls for transparency in the KLC's expenditures that the KLC comply with any recommendations from a forthcoming state audit. Here's what Wiest and Terwort had to say about the issue:
"I'm disgusted, both by the expenditure of public funds at a strip club, as well as the blatant attempt at making an excuse for the expenditure by the KLC officials who were behind it," said Fort Mitchell Councilman Chris Wiest. "They made the statement in the paper, 'We didn't know that we were going into a strip club,' when you see a picture in the paper with giant 'nude' signs next to the front door. Do they think that we're stupid?"
Terwort said: "Fort Mitchell individuals and business work too hard for their money to see it used by an organization at a strip club."
The Ft. Mitchell mayor, however, finds strip club adventures on the taxpayer's dime as more of a grey area:
But Holocher, who serves on the Kentucky League of Cities' board of directors, urged council not to forget that the league "still does a tremendous amount of good work for (cities)."
"I'm not trying to condone the expenditure at the strip club," Holocher said..."But I think you have to step back a little bit and say, 'Maybe they've made some mistakes but let them try to get over the mistakes.'
A gold star to the council for walking the walk...
