Dark Rumors From the Emerald City Rumor Mill

The insider lowdown on how the wheels are falling off the Boss Godfrey Administration Wienermobile

By WhatWardRUin

Nothing like spending four days with an "insider" to get the low-down on what's going on at City Hall.

Seems there is a growing riff between Godfrey and his head cheerleader John Patterson. It all goes back to the first of the year when the City had to return their ice tower RAMP money. Patterson's number one job for the last two years has been to get donations for the ice tower. All the lies and schemes have failed to yield a nickel's worth of funding.

On top of that, Patterson illegally uses City funds to pay for services and then launders it through a "secret" benefactor. Word is that it may be John Gullo, but his wife is dead set against the ice tower, so that is one reason for the secret; in addition to covering for Patterson's foible, of course. Our beloved Dan Schroeder's latest GRAMA request has City Hall in a lather too.

Next comes the Velodrome. Patterson accidentally included the address for the proposed bike track in the RAMP application. Turns out St. Anne's is the chosen site, but that means a new location for the shelter. Would you believe the city is looking at the old landfill in West Ogden? Anybody else see the hidden irony? Godfrey blew a gasket and demanded that Patterson turn in an amendment.....too late John-boy, the cat is out of the bag.

How about the true cost of that train cafe'/welcome center? Patterson was taken to the wood shed by the City Council; you go Amy, over the cost of the train remodel. Remember that $35,000 the Council was told it would cost? Patterson reported that it is $50,000 over budget and now the Council wants a full investigation. Godfrey is ultra pissed, claiming he knew nothing of this over-run. Now Godfrey is super ultra pissed because Patterson lied to the Council again. The real cost to date is more than $100,000 over budget and Godfrey is fit to be tied. How incompetent can one person be?

The final blow came last week. There was Patterson embarrassing his ninth floor neighbor over stimulus funding and the street car. I'm told there is more bad news to come on both of those fronts; Patterson screwed up the stimulus application for the 24th Street interchange and the street car is about to become a failed project, because Godfrey is insisting that the street car include a downtown loop and he wants the street car to go to the top of 36th Street to connect to his new club house at Mount Ogden Golf Course, making it totally unfundable.

Speaking of MOGC, anybody else heard about the 400 high-end condos planned for the WSU property to fund the MOGC re-build?

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.