I noticed. And I liked the dookey out of it.

Spot on!

Ms. Palmer, if the request wasn’t “proprietary on the Democrat’s part”, then why not ask ALL the Commissioners and the mayor in the usual open and public manner (and in writing so the request itself is also a City record) for any entity making a specific request of COT? Why approach just ONE Commissioner in a private “discussion” of which both parties seem to have a different version?
In addition, The Democrat (ostensibly at least) portrays itself as a “journalistic” entity and as such, should realize (even if not practicing it) that any request by a “journalistic” organization has the highest ethical and professional responsilbility to make ANY request involving a government entity both properly and publicly. The mere fact that this was done in a “discussion” with only ONE Commissioner is highly suspect in itself, simply by the manner in which the request was introduced into a COT Commissioners meeting. If even Scott Maddox was “a little uncomfortable” with the request and “appeared shocked by it”, then the request itself was obviously done in a secretive and highly irregular way.

I for one am extremely glad that TR brings incidents and information such as this into published form, so it can be revealed and questioned by the public, especially since no “media outlet” in this town (other than TR) has done so in the past decade or so.

Maybe we should file an ethics complaint – oh wait our ethics officer doesn’t ever do anything. Two ethics investigations in what 3 years? Read some of her Facebook posts and we see where she really stands.

Until that happens, nothing will ever get better up there. Zifer is not the answer for mayor he is like the rest of them swaying with the wind and changing his stances based on what will get him reelected. He was against the ethics board before he was for it.

Just how would a media outlet know what public records another media outlet has already paid for?

Watched the video and Miller was clear that the TD publisher approached her about waiving ‘fees’ for the TD and their public records requests. TD in their article says no one approached anyone about waiving fees for only the TD but rather for ‘all’ requests for public records. We have one, or the other, or both as liars here. Who’s going to blink first or try to ‘spin’ it?