TRASH, GARBAGE, REFUSE (break out the thesarus): ARE THERE ENOUGH WORDS FOR WILSON?
SALINE CO.–Of course Robert Wilson won the bid for trash pickup at the courthouse and jail in Saline County. When you’re talking trash, you’re talking Wilson, after all.
There's nothing cute about the bulldog we're talking about. It's just that we're almost out of chicken pics.
Sheriff Keith Brown has announced that the only bidder for what was formerly county board member Danny Gibbs’ account (trash pickup at the two venues) was Wilson’s business, Bulldog Systems.
The accounts were put up for bid last week, about a month after a failed attempt at indicting Gibbs went down.
Wilson even undercut what Gibbs had been charging the two county entities. Guess it was worth it to him to just have the account.
Whether anyone will bother to look into the legality of the ‘legal’ announcement last week that declared that whoever hauled said trash HAD to deliver it to a ‘Saline County landfill’ (also belonging to Wilson, go figure) or not remains to be seen.
With the things that are being investigated in Saline right now, and the agencies involved, Wilson & Co. probably are still thinking that trash is the least of their worries.
Oh ho ho. Maybe; maybe not.
There’s a reason why all those dumbasses are keeping such a low profile.
We’ll see if it shakes loose here pretty soon.
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Posted by Chris Beavers
on Dec 22 2009. Filed under Saline.
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What amazes me is that Gibbs did it for the last several years without a price hike since he knew the county was in financial trouble but Wilson (Bull Dog) purposly undercuts that bid to get it ??? Now I am not smart but why would you try to lose money just to say you have the contract…Things that make you go hmmm !
Yeah, the thing that confused me is that the two contracts are worth a total of less than $300/mo. Robert Wilson can make that in an hour, so why is he so concerned with scoring the contract? It does smell a little fishy…
Sounds Trashy to me.
Raoul Duke asked a serious question:
Smell fishy????
Just think of how many of old Bob Wilson’s cronies could throw ANYTHING they wanted in the local landfill, no questions asked… How much would that be worth?
It would be a great place to hide bodies. Oops! I guess I have been reading too many Mysteries.
It does make you wonder….doesn’t it.
I mean, they started the prison push for downstate locations because Cook/Will/Dupage didn’t want their trash polluting up their upstate prisons.
Why not landfills, too?
I wonder how close the EPA keeps a watch on the Landfill?I think you have to go to the Health Dept. before you can get the EPA to do anything.
I put them on a case once but it was like pulling teeth to get them to do anything.They told me they would only check out what they wanted to.They did check it out annd found what i told them about plus lots more.
I never even got a thank you from them after makeing them shine.
The EPA is kinda like DCFS…they don’t come in when you desperately need them to, and they are all over your shit when you DON’T.
We know of a spot where medical waste was being dumped about 4 years ago…to the south of us…and when someone reported them, it turned out a local public official was the one allowing the dumping. Good god you should have heard the ruckus made. And because of who this public official was, he continued to get away with it, and the EPA just turned a blind eye.
Picture, if you will, a large spiderweb. You know, like the ones you find in the garden late in the summer. A large circular net with anchor lines radiating out from the center in all directions and rings of lateral lines connecting each anchor line to the ones next to it. Smack dab in the center is the spider with its legs spread out in order to detect anything happening in any given section of the web at any given time. The difference in the web we are picturing here is, out in the body of the web there are several smaller spiders who grow, prosper and survive based on their service to the larger central spider. The more they provide to the center, the better their individual circumstances are. Can you see the web? Now that you have a picture of the web in your mind, take a map of Southern Illinois and lay the web out over Saline, Hamilton, White, Gallatin, Hardin and Pope counties. Sections in the Southern Illinois web would include: county and some city governments, school systems, Egyptian Health, Rides Mass Transit, The SIC Foundation, Golden Circle, Saline Valley Conservancy District, WOVSED and just about any other entity that receives state or federal money.
This is not to say any of these entities do anything illegal. But, appointments to the board of directors and the ability to influence who gets a job or contract, and who doesn’t, is power. Being able to get some “good old boy’s” deadbeat son-in-law a government job with great benefits, means the “good old boy” owes you one, (unless he has already paid you in some way). This too is power. Being able to sway a board to act on something that benefits you or yours directly, is power. You know what they say about power; “ Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. The funny thing is, around this part of Southern Illinois, when you look at the power structure, the REAL power structure, the same names keep popping up. But, who is the real center of the web?
Case in Point: Saline Valley Conservancy District.
Wells located in central Gallatin County pump water to the treatment facility located outside of Equality and supply millions of gallons of water daily to municipalities and individual customers all over Southeastern Illinois. This water is sold by the Saline Valley Conservancy District whose office is in Eldorado. Folks, we are talking mega dollars here. Gallatin County, one of the poorest counties in the state, receives absolutely nothing, zero, nada, zip, zilch for the water SVCD charges its customers for. How could this be? How could something like this happen? Power, influence and some would say money was at work on this deal when it was hatched several years ago. Who gets all the money collected by SVCD? How and why did the Gallatin County board allow this to happen?
People in Hamilton County blocked a proposed “Conservancy District” that wanted to build a 1000 acre lake required for the new coal mine supposedly coming there. Somehow, one or more of the “negotiators” for the development of the coal mine had the idea a coal mine needed that much water. Thankfully, a couple of highly intelligent and hard nosed citizens (these 2 just happen to be attorneys) smelled fish and the lake required by the coal mine just went away. Does a coal mine need that much water? Of course not. Were any of the people involved ever connected to the Saline Valley Conservancy District? Of course! Was there a plan to sell water to another area of Southern Illinois? You decide.
Glad you brought this up Semper Fi. I bet very few people in Saline County know that their water comes from Gallatin County. And Gallatin County citizens buy their own water, pumped out of wells in Gallatin County, from Saline County.