Is anyone else disturbed by our government's revolving door for lobbyists ?
Kevin Acklin, has been the Urban Redevelopment Authority board chairman for five years. Now he's resigning and becoming the the Penguin's senior vice president. He was instrumental in getting the Penguins a sweetheart development deal despite them not meeting deadlines. In exchange, he's now going to be paid millions by the Penguins.
It's bad enough that the URA are unelected king makers for local developers. Now it appears that standard practice is for developers to simply bribe what they want from the URA board.
I don't understand how this isn't the second biggest story in Pittsburgh right now (behind chatholic child rape). Am I missing something? Where's the outrage over this obvious corruption?
WESA article:
http://www.wesa.fm/post/ura-board-ch...pment#stream/0