Good Catch - Commenter points out a fatal discrepancy which brings document's authenticity into question.
I should slap myself for missing this one.
If you read about the controversy over a document mysteriously surfacing 10 months after it was written (and 6 months after it was supposed to be disclosed) in which Rapid City Businessman Doug Hamilton had allegedly hired city councilman Mike Schumacher to help Sam Kooiker - which Kooiker says is false - there are a few things which don't add up in the story.
First, no consultant or PAC I've ever seen files a contract with the Secretary of State. This raised a red flag for me. But a commenter on the previous post deserves the blue ribbon for bringing up an even bigger red flag as to it's authenticity. Here's what they had to say:
There's something fishy here. Really fishy.
If you read about the controversy over a document mysteriously surfacing 10 months after it was written (and 6 months after it was supposed to be disclosed) in which Rapid City Businessman Doug Hamilton had allegedly hired city councilman Mike Schumacher to help Sam Kooiker - which Kooiker says is false - there are a few things which don't add up in the story.
First, no consultant or PAC I've ever seen files a contract with the Secretary of State. This raised a red flag for me. But a commenter on the previous post deserves the blue ribbon for bringing up an even bigger red flag as to it's authenticity. Here's what they had to say:
Note the date of the supposed contract - 5-31-06. Schumacher was going to do 350 hours of work for $20 per hour? Hmmm. At the time Hamilton and Schumacher reached this "agreement" there were only 144 hours left before the election.Read that here. So the contract was for 350 hours, yet at the point it was signed, there were only 6 days left until the election. Even staying awake the entire 6 days and working non-stop on the campaign, that would have been an impossibility.
There's something fishy here. Really fishy.
Comments
First, you should slap yourself a lot given the junk you write.
Second, the contract may have been meant to cover work already done and work to be done.
I think if they would have went to the trouble of writing a contract for so many hours, and there would have been previous work performed, it would have noted it.
If it was done on a friendly "handshake" basis up to that point, why bother writing a contract setting forth the terms just 6 days before the election?
Why is it only coming to light and being filed with the Secretary of State's office a couple of weeks ago?
And the biggest one - why is the contract being filed with the SOS in the first place? No one does that, and it's not required.
The whole scenario seems to be a house of cards that's quickly falling apart.
Of course you don't hear that. The black helicopters are silent.
Mayor's running scared, Schumacher's toast, Hamilton's just plain demented IMO.
Check the dates on the news stories and the "amended" filing date.
The only bad news for Kooiker is if AG Long took money from Hamilton, too.
Check the SOS site and search for the bread crumbs.
Sounds like a job for Preiksat :>)
Happy Hunting
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/05/07/news/local/news03.txt
There are NO coincidences – ask any experienced criminal investigator.
It’s not a theory if it’s true.
DO you think AG Long investigates now or gives his buddies a break until after the election?
Follow the money.
She might be young now, but she will read about father and learn from his example that:
1. Everyone has a price.
2. Friends are disposable.
3. Money is more important than anything.
4. When the path looks difficult, walk away.
5. Politics are a dirty thing.
6. When you feel that you've been wronged, hurt them back.
I weep for our future.
Good grief. Like we can't figure out who you are and what your agenda is! A little too obvious me thinks!
Have you even been to Yankton? Hahahahahahahaha
Have you even been to Yankton? Hahahahahahahaha
Oh, that's right. Because he'd have to be a man and defend his own words.