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Item: Names remain secret in Nipp complaints/Tom Hasslinger, CdA Press
More Info: Sen. Mike Jorgenson will not be required to disclose the names of the citizens whose conflict of interest concerns spurred a state attorney general investigation of former Lake City Development Corp. Chairman Charlie Nipp, the senator said Friday. “It’s over,” he said. The attorney general was expected to issue Jorgenson a letter confirming the names were protected by attorney-client privilege.
Question: Do you agree with the AG’s ruling that the identities of those who sought an investigation of Charlie Nipp are protected by attorney-client privilege?
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JamesBond on March 21 at 3:22 p.m.
I don’t know enough about the specifics to comment on the attorney-client privilege aspect, but clearly, legislators are the clients of the attorney general, so the basis exists for it and it is certainly not something new.
However, what concerns me the most is that we have a man who sits on a quasi-governmental board who is clearly seeking to chill and maybe even punish in some way citizens who exercise their rights to pursue grievances against the government. That is plain scary.
These quasi-governmental districts and boards that get to play with tax money and credit ratings and other governmental tools of finance need to be held accountable. The private sector people that get on them have a very odd view of their role. They want no oversight. They always claim no tax dollars are ever at stake. It’s like they just magically make money and magically come up all these other benefits. It’s a wonder they don’t just do what they do like any other private sector person, except without all the government advantages they get. Crap, to here them sell their various and sundry proposals the way they always do, they are always fantastic ideas, demanded by the market, and are 100% guaranteed to never, ever result in anything bad! Why do we need them!?!?! Just let the market work it’s magic!!!!
Nipp needs to move on with his life.