Apparently, Alternative Opportunities marched into the Deer Creek fee office and announced that it would be conducting interviews with the staff. After winning nine other bids, they must have run out of red tape to cut.
Deer Creek is one of Missouri's most lucrative fee offices, performing an estimated $474,476 transactions in 2008. There were eight other bidders, but how much of a chance did they stand?
There are only eight license offices in Missouri that are more valuable. Six of those have been awarded, and they've all been given to Democrat donors.
It's easy to see how the game is being played. The higher up in the fee office rankings you go, the more offices are being won by Democrat donors.
The results are exactly what you would expect from run of the mill political patronage, with one exception. The bidding process is being dominated by only two groups (Alternative Opportunities, and the one led by James Ryan Williams).
If fee offices were fiefdoms before, now they're empires. Between them they've won fifteen fee offices, which are worth nearly $5.5 million dollars in yearly transactions.
By the time someone gets around to actually reforming the fee office system, they’ll have a much harder time doing it.
Deer Creek is one of Missouri's most lucrative fee offices, performing an estimated $474,476 transactions in 2008. There were eight other bidders, but how much of a chance did they stand?
There are only eight license offices in Missouri that are more valuable. Six of those have been awarded, and they've all been given to Democrat donors.
It's easy to see how the game is being played. The higher up in the fee office rankings you go, the more offices are being won by Democrat donors.
The results are exactly what you would expect from run of the mill political patronage, with one exception. The bidding process is being dominated by only two groups (Alternative Opportunities, and the one led by James Ryan Williams).
If fee offices were fiefdoms before, now they're empires. Between them they've won fifteen fee offices, which are worth nearly $5.5 million dollars in yearly transactions.
By the time someone gets around to actually reforming the fee office system, they’ll have a much harder time doing it.
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