About Ethics -

I just wanted to take a second and talk about this ethics brouhaha and also to thank Curt Geiger for sticking up for me with his many posts here on the WCF yesterday.

I especially liked his comment,

“Even the head of SLC Economic Developement is aware of this blog and the people who are on it. As he told me. "This blog and the negative people in Ogden are his greatist asset".
Curt, I know you’re much better at spelling and grammar than that (and your other posts) would indicate, but I know how busy you are!

Anyway, as you know, I’m one of Utah’s 50 most important businessmen as reported by the over two dozen readers of Connect magazine. So naturally I know all those folks down in the SLC Econ Dev office, and I’d just like to take the opportunity to say “Hi” to all of my friends in SL town. It’s kind of funny, but just today one of my constituents came by my office asking for you people’s phone number down there in the SLC Econ Dev office. He said after he read that quote he wanted to call you up and tell you to all go and #### yourselves. He said that if he’d wanted to live in a #### hole like SLC he’d be there already, and he didn’t need a bunch of SLC ###holes turning Ogden into Cronytown North. I told him to get out of my office and then I laughed my ### off! By the way, I love these # symbols.

Anyway, what really happened with the Wall property was this. Chris Peterson called me up to complain that he and some of his high class friends were getting tired of small timers like the Geigers trying to schmooze everybody and rub shoulders with them all the time. Not that Chris is a heavy hitter himself either. But you know how some people have their mattress stuffed with money? Let’s just say when Chris looks at his money it’s on TOP of the mattress, if you get my drift. Anyway Chris told me he was going to pull out of the whole gondola business because he wants to get the Geigers off his back. Besides, this bench land deal he’s trying to do here was starting to “drain all his juice”. And since he’s got so little “juice” to begin with, you can see the problem. Anyway I immediately got this idea that I told him about, and I thought once I share it with you it will clear everything up.

I told Chris, “How about I just sell you some land on Wall for a song? That way you can keep working on your sales job for your bench land deals and not have to worry about money because once front runner comes in you can flip those lots for an easy million profit now matter how things turn out. Plus, I could use the quarter mil from the land to buy my sandstone benches I want to put in front of my recreation center.” Dave Harmer said it was a total win-win as long as we can keep the “grannies” in the dark, wink wink. And as far grannies, old lady Bloom may have gotten shafted out of the land in the first place but I figure it’s no big deal. What does she need money for, wheelchair grease and a headstone?

We’re trying to do something important here, people! Try to catch the vision!