More Monroe County Leg Crony Capitalism?
An observant reader pointed this out to me. At last week’s “Environment and Public
Works” legislative committee meeting, there’s an item that called for a contract to be awarded to an entity called ECC Technologies for marketing the sale of electricity generated at the county run Mill Seat landfill in Riga.
No flags yet, sounds good. Except ECC doesn’t seem to have ANY experience with this kind of sales. They are an IT company! From their website:
SERVICES WE OFFER:
Technology Planning & Consulting Services
Cabling & Wireless Infrastructure
IT & Network Services
Telecommunications Systems
Security, Video & Sound Systems
Managed Network Services
No mention of marketing electricity or anything else!
Why, then, would the county want to award them a contract? Well…could it have anything to do with the fact that ECC Technologies made a $6,000 campaign contribution to Maggie Brooks in 2005?
Is this another example of the pay-to-play we’ve been talking about, a la Mapco?
We’ve gotta get local donor info available on-line. Having to reference printed documentation for this is so…primitive.
At least we can get on-line info from the state BOE from Q4 2005 onward. You can see ECC’s final 2005 donation here.
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