JOKE llp.
Have you noticed that no one on the Fairhope City Council wants to address any questions about the soccer fields!
In addition to all the other issues that Fairhope faces, the soccer fields have yet to become an issue. I am sure that the council will not take action to investigate anything themselves.
What is needed is a citizens committee, independent of the council, to thoroughly investigate the soccer field complex from purchase to present. Review all the contract documents and sub contractors, identify where fill material came from and cost of grading etc. Everything.
This was done with the Sen. Pittman BP Fraud Complaint,
The $675,000 Sins of Senator Trip Pittman-R are Irrefutable and Actionable
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it” Martin Luther King Dr. Christopher Warner encaps…
Source: alabamacorruption.blogspot.com/2011/03/675000-sins-of-senator-trip-pittman-r.html
A 130 page report was written and a 40 page supplement by a group of 6 to 8 citizens of Fairhope. Sen. Pittman has so far escaped any ethics or criminal charges however his actions are embedded in the minds of his constituents and it will cost him at the polls.
The purchase of the land stunk worse than the airport authority:
New Recreation Land Purchase Approved by Council
Fairhope, Alabama: newspaper, information, government, events, arts, music, entertainment, travel.
Source: thefairhopetimes.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-recreation-land-purchase-approved.html
Please note the document that lists the owners, JOKE LLP, the JOKE is on Fairhope,
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_
Where did all the money go, 5 to 6 million, and who benefited? GOBโS
HOLES
Fairhope has a fascination for holes. They approved digging a hole for a strip center to accommodate a Publix. That venture has been controversial ever since and spawned several lawsuits. Theโฆ
Source: rippreport.com/2017/06/09/holes/
The soccer fields were negotiated for construction under Mr Boone and Mr Burrellโs last term in office, remember that.
WHO WANTS TO HEAD THE COMMITTEE? THE FINAL REPORT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL and MADE PUBLIC
The guy who used to head the fbi in Alabama lives in Fairhope. Get him involved. Nail these corrupt politicians!
Follow the money…it’s not in the land deal, it is in the construction.
I recall SUMMIT INDUSTRIES did a lot of the spreading.
I cannot head the committee but would like to serve on it. Where to we sign up?
Will keep you posted
What a joke!
A 5 or 6 Million dollar JOKE
Most small towns allow their council members to engage in business deals on the side as long as they aren’t the main contractor. They aren’t paid much for being on the council and that’s just customary to allow them to be individuals. They don’t take an oath of poverty with the oath of office, Mr. Ripp.
To the person or group that made the post under the name “Anyonebutkarin”. You or all of your group are absolutely the people that should not be allowed to even comment on any political topics. No matter if you want to be a smartass or not. If you don’t understand things correctly in the first place? Why post it. It’s like explaining things to a door knob. So. I probably wasted my time anyway and that’s my fault.
“For the right reasons!” Not so fast!
“Anyonebutkarin” is correct, just because someone is elected as a part-time council does not exclude them from doing business with the city. Nor does it exclude them from having friends that do business with the city. If it did then there would be very few people that qualify for election as a council member. Queen Karin the First of Fairhope (QKFF) would have a conflict because anything the queen proposed to benefit the downtown could benefit her business. Actually, since the mayor is a full-time position there would be more of a conflict.
Individuals that are part-time are allowed to make a living and keep friends. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled on this in the past.
As far as QKFF, well, the queen has arrived, so go about your business, she is here to save Fairhope, now go about your business, my supporters know I am great and without any conflicts, go about your business.
The only people that think they know are the mayor’s supporters, clueless at best!
Strike Fast! Strike Hard!
All of you (though very few) are about as stupid as a box of rocks. If you have to bring all this up over all the corruption that is going on in Fairhope. You must be bored to death and kin to the whole council. Strike Hard! Strike Fast! Did I hurt someone’s feelings. Boo Hoo! How did we ever do anything without you and your wealth of knowledge. You get the Bullshit award for 2017! Go do something positive with your life if you know what that word even means?
Hurt my feelings? Yeah, I need QKFF to make a safe space, right beside the statue of her, Dean and with Ripp kneeling in front, that will placed in the circle at the pier, so those of us that get their feelings hurt can go.
LOL…you make me laugh.
Just look at the QKFF’s decisions, she campaigned on ending the lawsuits but she is now coming to understand that lawsuits are part of the job. QKFF likes to hide behind lawyers, lawyers that are paid with our money. QKFF doesn’t realize that the only person that wins in a lawsuit is the lawyers, and they will tell you to ‘stand your ground’ and let us litigate this because they are going to make money.
Someone need to explain to QKFF on how to eat an elephant – one bite at a time. She wants to spend money on this, let us expand the golf course so more liqueur sales can occur, let the city take over the harbor, let us do this, high-speed internet, et cetera, etc. I would like to see when her sidekick is going to deliver on something tangible and just talk, talk, talk, sniff, sniff, sniff into the microphone, deflect, make excuses. Those that can not get something done points fingers, they like all these studies because they are not capable!
IF it is true that our infrastructure needs $25,000,000 in repairs, don’t you think this is what we need to be focused on? I truly think she likes controversy, she ran her campaign on negativity, points the finger at everyone, then, THEN, QKFF hires her friends that are not qualified and pay them with our money.
QKFF loves the attention, she craves the attention, QKFF loves to be adored by her supporters but you keep lying to yourself, keep tell yourself QKFF is doing a good job, live the lie! I believe my commentary just may be more than QKFF supporters souls can bear!
Strike Fast! Strike Hard!
P.S. You know when you have won the argument? When someone begins to use curse words!
Jester. You just admitted to everyone exactly what a real shithead you really are without anyone saying a word. Great job!!! Not so hard to figure you people out. That was easy. If you really want to complain? Spread it out. There are plenty of people to blame. Sorry y’all lost the election!
LOL…as I have said when someone starts using curse words they have just lost the argument! Fool!
Strike Fast! Strike Hard!
COURT JESTER! THAT A PERFECT FIT. You show it every time you post. You have never won an argument in you life. Keep acting like a fool. We are all enjoying it including the ones of us who are blaming all the politicians. Not just the Fairhope Councilmen.
It seems most on here blame the council?
The new guys on the council are being led blindly.
It seems to me the IT department is being led blindly!
Actually, I agree with much of your post. The infrastructure is what needs attention. I also agree that the Mayor is throwing away our taxpayer dollars by hiring the two most unqualified employees on the east coast. I do believe that anything that is good for downtown Fairhope is good for all of Fairhope so I disagree with the posters who accuse Karin of making decisions that benefit her bookstore. We all knew that she owned that store before she threw her hat into the ring…..it has nothing to do with her job as mayor and I wish that people would stop trying to connect her store to her job as Mayor. Her husband runs that store and he does it well, so I find it reprehensible for idiots to suggest boycotting her store b/c they don’t like her decisions. I don’t like her decisions either. However, her husband and daughters are not making the Mayor’s decisions so don’t punish them……I would bet a lot that Kiefer Wilson would never hire Botop or Maser even to bartend!
I was not inferring that the mayor had a conflict of interest on the downtown issues but trying to point out that only a full-time politician could have one. I think Kiefer is a nice guy, but given the crap, QKFF has pulled, I just stay way for the bookstore.
I am not boycotting the bookstore just choose to stay way due to the political talk around the coffee shop. I am tired of hearing the lies.
QKFF has made some really bad decisions. Please tell me what her sidekick-whistle britches (WB), has brought in something tangible except sniff in the microphone and make excuses for this and that? Please enlighten me on all these tangles WB has done in exchange for this salary of hers?
When the QKFF wants to spend monies on the harbor, the clubhouse, on the golf course on the salaries, I would like to see what all of this is going to cost us!
A boycott will not work they do not READ
Jester made a good point regarding the infrastructure.
Yea Jester. You every other city and citizen in the world. You are so modest too!
Jester Triple Six might be taken slightly more seriously is s/he wasn’t so aggressive and antagonistic and always resort to silly name-calling like a grade-schooler. Such is the trademark of bullies everywhere, not smart enough to engage someone in intelligent conversation but still so full of themselves they feel compelled to verbally vomit over every Ripp Report post.
Maybe but I think not. Jester Triple-Six is probably a narcissist and has a 3rd grade education as their group can’t get over things. They can only scream and complain against one side even when you agree that there are problems on both sides that need to be addressed. They certainly didn’t defend themselves after being called unpatriotic! That is all I needed to know. No more jester crap or strike hard strike stupid. Next subject! The can say all they want to say. Falling on deaf ears from hear on! Bless their hearts! Glad we made them laugh though. That’s a positive! We laughed too!! Hey. Might have started something here. Lol. Have a super day!!!
Court Jester. You always say you are correct. But you always fail to back up your answers. There are certain ways to be included in doing work for the city. But it should all be approved and transparent under the guidelines of who can or who can’t work for the city. As far as friends. You’ve made it clear. That doesn’t really matter and that is the truth. Just glad they are your friends and not mine.
Don’t let that post under the name “Anyonebutkarin” get to you.
Those are just Catalyst flu kids trying to run interference. They are being closed in on
You nailed it! It is called Conflict of Interest. Sen Pittman explained it best ” We do things different in Baldwin County”, He is also right.
Is it okay to swim off the pier without a hazmat suit?
Duck Duck Goose
You’re about to be IT
Fairhope has a corruption problem. It is with the council, not the mayor’s office. We may have to wait until we can get a new council to make progress. Boone and Burrell are making money off of their positions. Boone’s son, through variously named LLC’s, is making bank off the city. Jack has several ventures in motion through the AA and he gets juice from the other scams they have going thru the council. The new guys on the council are dumber than a box of rocks to follow B&B’s lead. I guess they will find out.
The mayor’s office may not be participating in corruption, but Wilson is guilty of practicing many of the behaviors she criticized Kant of exercising. It’s bad enough to have the GOB network, now we have to suffer with the FOM (Friends of the Mayor) syndicate.
Kant had two dozen friends and relatives on payroll and you are bitching about two legit hires?
Ripp, I thought you were against corruption? It seems you feel like it is okay because someone you supported is now mayor! So you are okay with QKFF hiring two individuals that lack the education, WB has never held a job more than three years and in some cases, not even a year, so what successes can some have when only working in a job for a year or two? There no long-term track record. You are okay with the mayor’s office hiring friends that are not qualified and paying them some of the largest salaries within city government? So we need to stop “bitching?” Typical QKFF supporter.
You just want Kant back so you can go down on him like the girls she fired.
Court Jester would be all over that.
When a fool (Baldwinwatcher) makes a remake of that type it is not worthy of responding.
Who said that miracles don’t happen. I certainly agree with you on that! History made!
That comment is entirely inappropriate, Baldwinwatcher.
That’s the kind of people like the Baldwinwatcher and all the people that chose not to even try to work together to make Fairhope a great place. That’s what we have to put up with. Even if everyone is at fault. We should still be able to resolve issues without people saying so many hateful and terrible things. We know who they are. They say it in public all the time. What a disgrace. Would love to catch them saying that in front of any of our children. Take that kind of mess and go on with your life.
I bet your mom is really proud of you. Especially when you give her a kiss with that mouth!
So they named the company “joke”?
This is a joke, right?
Yep. Jester Triple-Six and Stike Fast! Strike Hard! have formed their own LLC’s just like all the rest of the Councilmen did. Fairhope and Baldwin County.
Time for a clean sweep of the council. Definitely Boone and Burrell.
IF I had an LLC, you will never know!
Strike Fast! Strike Hard!
Never say never and you don’t know what I know
I don’t care if you think you are Dick Tracy or not, you will never know if I have an LCC. Boo!
Jester the clown and his minions at their best. His own LLC. That s so funny! Entertainment at its best.
Jester. You are so funny. Why would you even say that we would never know if you had an LLC. You and your group are providing entertainment at its best and we appreciate it. The name Jester fits you perfectly. We don’t care if you even have an LLC and that we we will ever find out about it. Lol! We told you and you little group of munchkins that y’all fall on deaf ears now. Don’t care if you have a dozen LLC’s. Y’all don’t matter anyway. Your group is getting smaller and you have to bring in the kiddies into the picture to help fight for the Councilmen and the ones that have been fired. It’s a proven fact that you all choose is not to work together no matter whose at fault to try and make Fairhope better. Y’all even agrees that none of the Councilmen lied during their campaigns. I’m glad you are enjoying yourself. I’m sorry you will be disappointed when this is over with. Because y’all don’t care in the first place. Now that it’s raining. I guess y’all can’t go and swing at the park. Gonna be a long 2 or 3 days for your group. LLC’c are so easy to pull up that A fifth grader can do it. And you are worried that we will never know if you have an LLC. That hilarious! Don’t too strike fast or hard. You might break a lamp or knock over your juice cup. Too funny!
No JOKE, think about that, that is someone who knows all the legal documents formed are structured to hide who the owners are,Thanks Tim Kant
Joke of a town. Beavis and Butthead…corrupt sobs.
Saw a huge pile of floating dark brown goo off of the pier. So sad. Kids were swimming in their cutoffs. No regulatory signs or warnings of fecal matter.
It’s the 200 pound Geese we have in the area
Ripp. I hope it’s not the same Baldwinwatcher that posted the disgusting comment about wanting Kant back and the very inappropriate things that they posted and now they are complaining about turds. Wow!
No it’s the 200 turd named Baldwinwatcher who posts things about wanting Kant back so He himself could go down on him. What a joke. Inappropriate turd head! You kiss your mother with those lips?