Ford Campaign Hits "Shady Corker Land Deal" At Eastgate
2006-09-20
Source: Chattanoogan.com
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rss feedThe Harold Ford for Senate Campaign said newly released Corker Administration internal documents "show that Mayor Bob Corker’s chief of staff and communications director closely monitored a shady land deal in which Mayor Corker destroyed a conservation easement - held by the city of Chattanooga - so that he could pocket $4.7 million."
The Ford campaign said, "As the Memphis Commercial Appeal has reported in two page-one stories, the key to the deal was the Corker’s administration approval of construction of an access road over the nature preserve, paving over the very conservation easement Corker was legally obligated to protect.
"Instead, Corker’s Osborne Building Corporation developed the land--while mayor - selling it to a shopping center developer in July 2003 for $4.7 million. Corker has released information showing he made more money while mayor than he did in the previous 24 years of his life -combined.
"Corker’s explanations of how the deal occurred now are coming unraveled.
"The Commercial Appeal article yesterday directly contradicts prior statements of the Corker campaign, that the land deal was finalized in 2002. Today’s newly released documents, obtained under Tennessee’s Open Records Law, raise serious questions regarding the other cornerstone of the Corker defense--that he had nothing to do with the deal that profited him so handsomely.
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