Not too dead to work for Tampa

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 12, 2006

TAMPA - Paving contractor Lynwood Eady died more than 25 years ago.

William Humphrey closed his lawn care business in 2000.

Yet companies owned by the men are on a list of 419 potential vendors that Tampa officials are pushing to include in a consultant's study of the city's minority contracting practices.

Adding the names could make the city's record of hiring minority- and female-owned businesses look better than the results of the study, which concluded that a disproportionate amount of major city contracts went to white male-owned businesses. It also could mute calls for new rules to help minority businesses.

City Council member Kevin White, who urged the city to do the 18-month study, said he wondered whether the administration was attempting to manipulate the results.

"If you control the input, you control the outcome," he said.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/12/Hillsborough/Not_too_dead_to_work_.shtml


Makes you wonder how many of these dead vendors are still registered to vote too?

[babylonsister]

1. Good to know this is seeing some light. How crooked are

they, and how long has this been going on? Outrageous!

[silverweb]

2. Makes you wonder...

...how many of these dead vendors are still being "paid," too. It's a perfect setup for tapping into taxpayers' money.

[razors edge]

3. Four years in Tampa was

four years too many, I wish them well but $6/hr was dying wages.

[lpbk2713]

4. That fella that died 25 years ago

probably voted for Shit-for-Brains both times.