Remember those "wonderful" glossy postal cards we kept receiving week after week when Vestar was telling us about that great Marketplace with all that "unique" and "upscale" shopping they'll be bringing to Oro Valley?
Who can forget, their spokesperson, Council Member Terry Parish, being quoted time and time again: "The OV Marketplace Is A Home Run."
Well, now we find out who supports Parish in his run for re-election. Is anyone at all surprised that none other than Vestar is one of Parish's major financial supporters?
Do the words "quid pro quo" ring a bell? It's a Latin phrase meaning "something for something". This term is typically used in financial circles to describe a mutual agreement between two parties in which each party provides a good or service in return for a good or service.
Yup! The Parish glossies that found their way to your mailboxes were certainly a result of Vestar's generosity. That's why we say; "Parish & Vestar; joined at the hip!"
Read the Explorer article here.
http://www.explorernews.com/article/show/21547
8 comments:
He says "I'm proud to have business suport me.". Well that is fine except when that business has lied to the Oro Valley voters, costing us 23.2 million dollars.
Now that is not a home run.for OV.
Vestar ripped us off.
Crude to say, but I tell it like it is.
Absolutely disgusting.
And I'm not sure what the Dems making phone calls for Salette Latas has to do with anything, except maybe Parish was crybabying about it to take the focus off the fact that he's sold out to the developers.
My husband is a Republican, and he got a call from a Republican supporting Salette Latas. So it sounds like she has a lot of grassroots support. I'll take that any day over someone who has sold out to developers.
DISGUSTING
"Watch out, there is a New Dog Wrangler in town" (Please put your hands on hips and use the Elmer Fudd voice)!
How many freakin' interviews is this guy going to try and get? ....I wonder how many newspapers and reporters he called?? I guess Parish will use anything to his advantage, even dogs.
He was even quoted as calling the Magistrate "uneducated" (Kim Smith, Arizona Daily Star, 02.22.2008). WOW!He is really full of himself!
Parish is so low-lying..DISGUSTING!
I find it amusing... or somewhat interesting that he was removed from the "evidence unit" and demoted to the "community problems unit", WOW! I wonder if there could be a bigger insult! I also wonder if the sheriff's office saw a conflict of interest with Parish working with drugs, money, guns, etc? They [Pima County Sheriff's Dept] must have, as his political behavior probably carries over into his professional life and personal life... easily bought, easily sold!
There has never been a doubt in my mind that Parish has been "bought and paid for" by Vestar! There isn't and ounce of objectiveness, honesty, integrity, piety or loyalty anywhere in him!
Oro Valley Mom.
They could not pay me enough to support Mr. Parish.
Who he considers "friends" and those who he surrounds himself with make a strong case for who he is.
Yeah, it didn't take much to figure out that it was Vestar (oh, I'm sorry, I mean Vestar's employees and their wives) who were funding Terry's campaign. It was obvious when you read the Explorer article a couple of weeks ago about the campaign contributions and saw that Parish had collected thousands upon thousands of dollars more than Latas and Gillaspie. He tried to claim that "housewives" and people who "want a park" were his campaign contributors.
What does Vestar (oops, I mean their employees) really want from Parish? They clearly want something and they want something big.
Hmmm...could it be that they want him to promote Arroyo Grande? You know that 16,000 house development that's planned for right up the road from OVM? That's right up Vestar's alley. Another 32,000 people to shop at their Great Mall of China.
Will this Vestar nightmare ever end???!!!
Yes, the Vestar nightmare WILL end!
Because all of us smart OV residents will vote in Bill and Salette!
There is a light at the end of the tunnel!
I know that I have been talking to every single OV voter about these issues. I hope that too many people were not swayed by the glossy postcards and read the facts, this blog, and the NWExplorer before voting! Or maybe they have been awoken by construction on the Wal-Mart at 3:00 AM or their home was covered in Uncle Bernie's ashes and have had enough!
THE TIES THAT BIND!
At some point, Terry Parish must opt that he is either on the side of the law or on the side of those who may squirm around it. It is interesting that he advocates that the donations he receives are from individuals and therefor legal but 'admits or implies' that many of those individuals are 'members' of one 'development group' or another. Terry, Terry, Terry - it is written that one CONNELY WOLFSWINKEL, a 'true player' in the RANCHO VISTOSO development, and, by virtue of the many articles documenting his wayward dealings (let alone his conviction for bank fraud), appears to be the consummate manipulator in the ways and means of 'burying' his hidden 'riches' relative to his 'stakes' in VISTOSO PARTNERS and VESTAR, too.
WOLFSWINKEL, VISTOSO PARTNERS, VESTAR - TIES THAT BIND! Want more details, just search the internet -it's all there.
According to the 'Business Journal of Phoenix' in an article dated August 24, 2001, VISTOSO PARTNERS is named as a WOLFSWINKELS' company. According to the 'Urban Land Institute', Candice WOLFSWINKEL is listed as a representative of VISTOSO PARTNERS.
According to the 'East Valley Tribune' in an article dated October 10, 2005 titled "WOLFSWINKEL pulls the strings in a family enterprise" it is written that WOLFSWINKEL has 'intricate ties/partnership' in at least one of the VESTAR centers.
According to the record of ME-SPEAK
TERRY PARISH, he admits that [much of the money he receives for his campaigns is from 'developers' but that it is legal and okay because the donations are 'laundered' (my term) through individuals]. He continues that he is a proponent of said developers for the benefit of Oro Valley. Terry, were you elected to represent the people of Oro Valley and beholden to represent ALL of us, or were you elected to act yourself out as a hired gun for the development clique that has inundated it? What qualifications do you have that ordain you as the master planner for this Town? Who elected you as the authority on what this Town needs? What degree qualifies YOU to have become the wizard of those economic responsibilities necessary for the 'running' of a town, especially when you seem to bury your head in the sand when it comes to the realities that face us in these economic times? You wanted retail, you got empty storefronts all over town, and a snail-paced construction of the Oro Valley Marketplace (what, no tenants?) anchored by a Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer rated 'worst in customer satisfaction' in the 'departments and discount stores' category (statistics published by Market Watch and compiled by the recognized ASCI, American Customer Service Index). As an aside but necessary to mention, The Naranja Town Site is initially going to be nothing more than an ill-advised coagulation of a 'sports' complex with dreams of more future pie-in-the-sky facilities; we simply can't afford it, and even if there is a vote to 'get it started', we still can't afford it. And, those of us who do not use soccer fields, baseball fields, tether ball whatevers, tennis courts, etc., may have to pay for them but we'll never receive the benefits; where's the balance? River Park - my having visited it several times and at many different hours, I rarely see anything more than sporadic use at any given time; the maintenance is ordinary, the grounds so-so, and the bathrooms are abominable. So, now it's more, more, more for the kids and nothing for the seniors even though a Tucson area study expects a 75/25 growth ratio in favor of senior citizens; so much for the cry of "demographic change".
Terry Parish, either you can be a squeaky clean law enforcement officer and Town participant, or you can be perceived as an on-the-take small town politician; you just can't be both or you could wind up being labeled as an on-the-take law enforcement officer. You cannot wield the power of law on the one hand and then associate yourself with those who would muck up the law with the other. Your vision of the future is naive, your ways of getting there are reckless, you are dealing with a situation that is way over your head, and your pursuits within
THE TIES THAT BIND are of great concern.
VISTOSO PARTNERS is the developer of RANCH VISTOSO.
VESTAR is the developer of shopping centers including THE ORO VALLEY MARKETPLACE within the Planned Area Development, RANCHO VISTOSO.
CONNELY WOLFSWINKEL is a convicted felon who was most seriously involved in a hundred million dollar+ bank fraud in the mid
1980s, a person who the government claims still owes them (us, We the People) over one billion dollars + interest, a person who has woven strings of deals that exclude his 'ownership' by his 'bobbing and weaving' through family entities; a person depicted as being embedded in relationships with BOTH RANCHO VISTOSO and VESTAR (want to really 'get it', simply type in the name WOLFSWINKEL in your search engine and read the postings).
TERRY PARISH deems himself as a bridge for [moving this town forward] and he defends his relationships with developers as his means to his ends. What exactly are they?
TIES THAT BIND are not a good thing here.
Mr. Parish, according to the American Customer Service Index,
Wal-Mart was rated worst in the category of 'department and discount stores' and has dropped almost steadily in it's ratings over the past few years; Best Buy is second to last in it's category.
SO, DOES THIS MAKE THE 'ORO VALLEY MARKETPLACE' A HOME RUN OR A FOUL BALL?
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