As we have started hitting the streets, knocking on doors, I haven't had much time to blog lately.  But I think what I'm going to show you is very important and is a perfect example of why we need change in our local government. 

You're not going to see something like this in the media or at any upcoming forums.  This may seem to some as a personal attack, but it's not.  This is about issues - how our government is run and what is done with our tax dollars. 

In case you missed it, a number of Green Rochester candidates attended the most recent City Council meeting and attempted to put in a bid on Midtown Tower.  This offer was not only ignored, but mocked by the current mayor as "political theater".  When the vote for the deal to give a $430,000 property away to a Tom Richards campaign donor, came up, the current City Council President objected to the parking provision of the deal, the least expensive part, but in the end, ended up voting for the big chunk of the corporate welfare, as did the other elected officials. 

GR Mayoral Candidate, Alex White, posted a blog about the whole affair called, Midtown Tower of Lies. 

Links to the blog post was shared on Facebook by a number of people.  But City Council Member, Carolee Conklin was not content with getting everything they wanted.  She had to defend her decision on a constituent's Facebook page.

What follows after the jump is the edited conversation between the constituent [LW], Ms. Conklin, fellow GR City Council Candidate, Dorothy Paige and myself.  The only edits made were removing the constituent's name, removing unrelated comments by people not involved in the conversation and Facebook jargon ("reply", etc.)