Here’s the weak sauce resulting from the Oneida Business Committee giving law firm Godfrey & Kahn $750,000 from the Tribe’s General Fund to waste on Oneida Seven Generations Corporation’s failed lawsuit & appeal against the City of Green Bay:
It starts off by saying on page 1:
It is not possible to read the record in this case fairly and conclude that, in March 2011, the City of Green Bay thought it was approving a facility that would have no emissions and no stacks.
On page 7 it says:
Likewise, the allegation that OSGC misrepresented that the facility would be a ‘closed’ or ‘closed loop’ system is entirely unfounded.
Yet here are emails from August 9, 2010 by Oneida Business Committee member & OBC’s OSGC Liaison Brandon Stevens which claim that OSGC’s facility will have “no stacks” and will be “COMPLETELY enclosed“:
When asked about his emails at an April 30, 2013 Community Meeting Brandon Stevens falsely denied that he had sent them.
Lies upon lies, but what else should anyone reasonably expect?
Obviously the “no stacks” and “closed-loop” talking points by OSGC have for at least three years been some of the lies they’ve repeated to the Tribe, to the public, to the media and to elected officials.
Just more evidence of how OSGC continues to make the Oneida Tribe look like a bunch of corrupt and incompetent liars.
Thankfully General Tribal Council will have the opportunity to set things right and finally dissolve OSGC.
General Tribal Council members should take a good look at Oneida Seven Generations Corporation’s ‘Financial Statements and Supplementary Information Years Ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.’
On page 7 under ‘Operating Expenses,’ the line item of ‘Salaries and benefits‘ for 2011 was $662,827. For 2012 it is $422,045.
In both years OSGC had 3 full-time and 1 part-time salaried employees, for an average $155,000 per full-time employee per year in salary & benefits.
Did you make that much money?
Did you lose the Tribe over $5 million with lies?
Do you think this is fair?
The Oneida Tribe is like a Driver’s Education car with an Instructor’s set of controls (steering wheel, gear shift, gas & brake pedals) and the Student’s set of controls which the Instructor can override.
Every three years General Tribal Council hires a new Business Committee to follow our directions and help us drive our car, but GTC never gives up its power over the Instructor’s set of controls.
Continuing Driver’s Education
If we feel the BC is steering us wrong, going too fast or going too slow, we can always instruct them on where and how we want our car to be driven.
If the BC won’t follow our directions & instructions we can grab the controls and tell them to get in the backseat, or we can leave them on the side of the road.
Unfortunately, the same group of people have been driving us into ditches or, even worse, getting us stuck on the railroad tracks with a locomotive approaching.
Now it’s time for GTC to take control of the car from the BC and decide the best way to safely reach our destination (ethical, secure & sustainable economic development).
The BC must follow our instructions & our directions or else we’re just being taken along for a ride and we could all end up in a terrible wreck!
Drive Safely!
GTC scored a big win by voting on May 5, 2013 to defend their own health, safety & welfare against the toxic incinerator plans and the risky financing schemes of Oneida Seven Generations Corporation and the Business Committee.
However…
OSGC and BC members are still hurting the Oneida Tribe’s reputation by traveling to conferences trying to convince other tribes to take the same harmful risks that GTC has already rejected.
GTC has to direct the BC to dissolve OSGC in order to stop OSGC & the BC from wasting our money and making the Oneida Tribe look bad, as well as demand that from now on GTC has to have the final say over what kinds of businesses we want the Tribe to start, to promote to others, or to put to an end.
GTC must have full access to all Financial Reports and Disclosure Reports to be able to best decide whether we want to start a business, to promote a business that’s been successful, or to end a business that’s not meeting our expectations or that harms the Tribe, our resources, or our reputation.
