Llewellyn Attempts To Sell Warren County Water Rights For Personal Gain

Drowning Men Grab At Straws; Thirsty Men Grab At Straws, Too.

During the 1970’s, the Warren County Board of Supervisors created the Warren County Sanitation Authority. Today, the Authority exists in name only; it was created but never activated.

In 2001, the Board of Supervisors authorized Mr. Stanley to proceed with drafting an agreement with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for a groundwater study for Warren County. In 2006, the County was heading into its fifth $150,000 dollar per year payment on the project and this was the year the County would receive the conclusions and findings in a scientific report. Another $100,000 paid by Warren County was authorized for 2006-07. (See BOS Meeting Minutes, 07-18-2006) The cost to date of the project through 2006 was $700,000 from Warren County; USGS contributed approximately $350,000 for a total well over $1 million dollars of taxpayer money to acquire water table information.

In 2003, the Board of Supervisors authorized funds to commission the engineering firm of Anderson & Associates to study the County’s water and sewer options. On 14 August 2003, “Warren County Utilities Study – An Evaluation of Water And Sewer Options For The County” was printed and forwarded to the Board. You may obtain a complete copy of the 34-page study by contacting the Warren County Administration Office or Anderson & Associates in Middletown.

The Warren County Utilities Study ended with the following Conclusions and Recommendation:

“…It is our conclusion that the greatest opportunity for Warren County and Front Royal lies in working together in partnership to provide services to the citizens of this community. Warren County has the existing and future water and sewage demand that justifies the expansion of Front Royals treatment facilities, while Front Royal has the existing infrastructure to expand. Through the pooling of resources, and the operation of an Authority, the capacities and service areas of the water and sewer systems can continue to meet the needs of the citizens. This approach offers economical attractiveness due to the absence of redundant service areas and infrastructure.”

Leading up to the conclusions and recommendation summary, the study presented 4 options for consideration:

Option 1:
“Option I is a continuation of the present mode of operation. This involves the Town owning and operating the water and sewer systems that serve those areas inside and outside of the town limits.”

Option 2:
“Option II involves the County getting into the water and sewer business by either buying the Town’s infrastructure currently in place in the County, or constructing separate systems.”

Option 3:
“Option III utilizes an existing framework that has been in place since 1973, the Warren County Sanitation Authority. The Board of Supervisors established the Warren County Sanitation Authority for the “…acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of (a) an integrated water system for supplying and distributing water in Warren County and (b) an integrated sewer system and sewerage disposal system for Warren County…”

Option 4:
“Option IV considers the possibility of the Town and County working together in partnership to be the regional water authority through the construction of a regional water treatment plant. A regional water treatment plant could initially supply water to Front Royal and Warren Co. and expanded in the future to serve other localities.”

None of the study options recommend selling Warren County water rights to Frederick County in exchange for the provision of a water/sewer system for use by Llewellyn’s development projects.

After spending over $1 million dollars of taxpayer money obtaining reams of water information, why did Llewellyn, Traczyk, Carter, and Stanley ignore all study recommendations and propose selling Warren County water rights to Frederick County, creating a partnership clearly not in the best interests of Warren County residents?

The answer begins with a zoning approval allowing only municipal water and sewer for the Catlett Road development:

= On March 21, 2006, the Board of Supervisors amended the Warren County Zoning Ordinance to allow Catlett Road cluster housing with municipal water/sewer only.

= Without municipal water/sewer, Llewellyn’s 155 homes on 58 acres are not possible and the development dies.

= Front Royal voted not to provide water/sewer service to Catlett Road and Swan Farm projects owned by Llewellyn.

= Llewellyn, Carter, and Traczyk burned the bridges to mutually beneficial future cooperation with Front Royal with a barrage of insults, accusations, poor statesmanship, and threats to form a regional water authority with Frederick County, with or without Front Royal as a participating member.

= Frederick County sensed Llewellyn’s growing financial vulnerability and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

= Llewellyn’s development projects face financial failure due to lack of municipal water/sewer preventing the developments from proceeding. Drowning men grasp at straws; thirsty men grab at straws, too.

= Who approached whom? Depending upon who you ask, Traczyk says Riley contacted him, Riley says Traczyk contacted him. Are they both right or wrong?

= Riley's December 6 letter is a response to Traczyk's request for a proposal outlining a general plan according to The Winchester Star.

= Frederick County is facing a building moratorium due to lack of DEQ permits allowing increased particulates discharge into the Opequon Creek.

= Frederick County has adequate water sources to supply growth demand through 2025. The sales pitch to create a regional water authority disguises its real, unsaid need for Shenandoah River access to dump more sewage.

= Frederick County tried to create a regional water authority with the City of Winchester. The effort failed.

= Frederick County tried to create a regional water authority with Shenandoah County. The effort failed.

= Frederick County tried to create a regional water authority with Clarke County. The effort failed.

= Frederick County tried to create a regional water authority with Warren County during the early 1990’s. The effort failed.

= Each of the 4 options proposed by the 2003 Warren County Water Study would be time consuming to implement, especially Option 4, which required co-operation with the Town of Front Royal.

= I believe Llewellyn, conspicuously absent from public participation and comments, influenced Carter and Traczyk to back his venture to obtain water/sewer via Frederick County and possibly forcing Front Royal to reconsider.

= Traczyk was easily influenced because he believed his control over Warren County development was being usurped by the Town of Front Royal’s water policy.

= Carter was influenced for the same reason, claiming loss of control over County development. Centex withdrawal of the Happy Creek development was particularly vexing for Carter.

= Frederick County framed its offer as a direct appeal to Llewellyn’s predicament; Frederick would provide water and sewer to Llewellyn’s projects, Llewellyn would sell them Warren County water rights and sewer discharge capacity into the main stem of the Shenandoah River.

= The water/sewer treatment plant would be built on land donated by Warren County.

= Frederick must approve the property location. This places the plant somewhere on the “main stem”, downstream of the North Fork-South Fork confluence, miles away from Catlett Road.

= Frederick County looked to possibly recover their investment quickly with water/sewer service to the proposed 2500 home Centex site. All Warren County needed to do was revise or ignore the Comprehensive Plan growth rate.

= Traczyk touts the Frederick County water deal as a source of income, conveniently forgetting after he sells the water he has to buy it back at a higher price. Traczyk becomes the man stepping over dollars to pick up pennies.

= County Administrator Stanley and County Attorney Mitchell misinterpret eminent domain provisions of Virginia Code and wrongly say Frederick County can take the water without Warren County permission, promoting a fatalistic “we are helpless to resist” public relations campaign favoring the water deal.

The fine print in the memorandum of understanding kills the Fredrick/Warren "water" deal.

The final straw that broke the Llewellyn/Carter/Traczyk back was the provision that allowed the Frederick County Sanitation Authority to maintain total control over who received water and sewer, who controlled the sewage discharge permits, and who set the rates for connection fees and services.

Finance sources would demand Frederick control all the revenue generating items as a condition of the construction loan. Without any say over water policy, Warren County becomes Fredericks stooge.

The real kicker is Llewellyn’s Catlett Road development, located on the county’s west side, would be physically located so far away from the Frederick water/sewer facility located on the Shenandoah River, on the east side of the county, it would not be economically feasible for Frederick to build water and sewer lines to service 150 homes in the foreseeable future. Llewellyn was left holding the empty bag.

Plainly stated, the Frederick County water deal placed Warren County in the exact same position as the existing situation with Front Royal, except now Frederick County’s nearly uncontrolled growth rate would be dumping its sewage into Warren’s back yard.

Warren County sewage discharge capacity utilizing the main stem of the Shenandoah River would feed Frederick County development.

Supervisor Ron Llewellyn's 7 Sins Against Warren County, VA.

Letter sent to The Northern Virginia Daily and The Warren Sentinel:

10-12-2007

Letter To The Editor:

Previous letters written by Mr. LaBarca, Mr. Haynes, Mr. & Mrs. Stephenson, and Ms. Cable give praise, support, and little else of substance for Mr. Llewellyn's bid for re-election as Supervisor for the North River District. Blind loyalty does little towards evaluating Mr. Llewellyn's actions.

If we are to believe these folks, Mr. Llewellyn has single-handedly claimed responsibility for so many wonderful things there remains precious little for the other Supervisors to claim as their own accomplishments.

Please allow me to give additional credit to Mr. Llewellyn for his documented actions not mentioned by his friends.

1) Mr. Llewellyn raised our taxes. Should we praise and thank Llewellyn for raising taxes?

2) Mr. Llewellyn filed a false Economic Interest Statement describing his real estate holdings and business interests. Should we praise and thank Llewellyn for "forgetting" what he owned and who his business partners are?

3) Mr. Llewellyn has received over $2,000,000.00 from Brookfield Washington LLC, his business partner developing Catlett Road and Swan Farm subdivisions, without providing independently verifiable information concerning the transaction. Brookfield is partnered with Llewellyn on 2 rezoning projects brought before the Board of Supervisors while Mr. Llewellyn is a sitting member. Should we praise and thank Llewellyn for taking huge sums of money from a company with official business before the Board?

4) Mr. Llewellyn used Warren County Attorney Douglas Napier as his Registered Agent on file with the State Corporation Commission for 3 of his businesses, Swan Farm LLC, Catlett Road LLC, and LBX3, LLC. Napier was County Attorney when he became Llewellyn's agent. Llewellyn was a sitting member of the Board of Supervisors when 2 of the filings were made. Douglas Napier was Warren County Attorney from 1976 until his abrupt, no-notice, resignation last August. Should we praise and thank Llewellyn for thinking he was creating no possible conflict of interest using the County Attorney as his personal attorney?

5) Mr. Llewellyn tried to sell Warren County water rights to Frederick County in exchange for water and sewer service to 2 of his personal business projects. Should we praise and thank Llewellyn for his poor business sense?

6) Mr. Llewellyn destroyed the relationship between Front Royal and Warren County due to water issues for his projects. Should we praise and thank Llewellyn for poor interpersonal skills?

7) Mr. Llewellyn has demonstrated a willingness to prefer his personal business interests before his responsibility to his constituents. People without power trust and depend upon those with power to protect and defend them.

Should we praise and thank Mr. Llewellyn for betraying our trust?


Bill Pierceall
P.O. Box 35
Middletown, VA. 22645

Federal Funding Available

As you know, one of my pet ideas is to use the Royal Phoenix site for other than light industrial uses. I envision a consolidated Town/County government complex of offices, a new court house, perhaps even a regional jail.

To compliment the core project I think it would be a great idea to create a "Western Bypass Route" to closely follow the existing railroad right-of-way adjacent to the Royal Phoenix site, from the Skyline Drive area on the southern end to the South Fork Bridge on the northern end. One big obstacle to this vision is how to connect the bypass route to the bridge route. The answer is at hand.

Funds have become available to Virginia DOT who plans to use a portion for preliminary engineering studies to replace the South Fork bridge. Any western bypass route using Llewellyn's Catlett Road right-of-way proffer requires the additional expense of at least one, possibly 2, new multi-million dollar bridges over the South Fork and maybe another new bridge over the North Fork too, depending upon where the northern terminus will need to connect, to Route 55 and a new I-66 exchange in lieu of connecting to Route 340/522.

Having the terminus at the south end of the existing South Fork Bridge location benefits traffic flow in and around the Town, creating possible shopping destinations along the old route to compliment the newly constructed buildings in the area. The bridge terminus would become a gateway portal into Front Royal and the government center. The existing Commerce Avenue bypass route northern segment could be changed to provide a more direct path to the bridge terminus/bypass route intersection, eliminating the 3 existing 90 degree turns winding through a 25 mph zone. Through traffic would have 2 routes to bypass downtown Front Royal.

This bonus Federal bridge funding provides a way to study the feasibility of the bypass plan at no cost to the Town or County. All we need is a politician with a vision and some leadership skills.

Where can we turn to find such a person?

Email Letter To Warren County Supervisor Tony Carter

Mr. Carter,

I thought of you recently when I happened across this quote from George Orwell: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

Now that the tax relief audit has been completed, absolving Mr. Smedley, won’t you share with us the underlying reasons you made your accusations?

I notice your back slapping buddy, Mr. Mabry, in nit-picking scramble mode trying to champion other flimsy accusations of additional wrong doing against Mr. Smedley, his opponent in November’s election. Could this be more political muckraking? Do you, Mr. Carter, continue to support Mabry?

If you were in possession of bona fide evidence or knowledge of wrongdoing would you not have taken it to the Commonwealth’s Attorney for investigation, verification, and criminal charges if appropriate? You did not do that, did you?

The newspapers reported you as approaching a county employee to secretly investigate Mr. Smedley for wrongdoing, saying you knew he was “dirty”. That county employee “rats” you out and somehow gets fired from her job. Don’t you find that curious?

Lacking hard evidence, we are left to ponder alternative reasons for your actions. We are left to guess the most likely reason you made your accusation is political revenge for the long ago defeat you suffered when you sought your Party’s nomination for Mr. Smedley’s seat and were defeated. Egos are delicate things, aren’t they?

Could you have carried a grudge for so long over such a small issue as your political worthiness?

I’ve been meaning to ask you about an event that happened several months before the Smedley accusation. I was in the Planning & Zoning Office, researching the records on file for a certain property owned by one of your close friends, somebody we all know and love.

Shortly after I received the documents, I noticed your appearance in the hallway outside the office. You loitered in the hallway for the 10 minutes I took to examine the files.

When I exited the office, you were still lurking in the hallway, intently examining the nearly blank bulletin board near the doorway, and then nervously watching the ceiling tiles as I passed you by. I was reminded of Inspector Clouseau, the Peter Sellers character in the movie Pink Panther.

Exiting the building, I glanced over my shoulder just in time to see you enter the office I had just left.

I wrote it off as weird behavior; you were probably waiting for the bus to arrive. Would you care to enlighten me about your actions that day?

Best regards,

Bill Pierceall

Former Warren County Attorney Douglas Napier On Supervisor Llewellyn Payroll

Douglas W. Napier was employed as Warren County Attorney from 1978 until his abrupt, no-notice, “run-for-the-hills” resignation during August 2006. Mr. Napier then joined the law firm of Pond, Athey, Athey & Pond with offices in Front Royal, VA.

Documents on file at the Virginia State Corporation Commission, http://www.scc.virginia.gov/division/clk/diracc.htm, indicate former Warren County Attorney Douglas Napier, while employed as County Attorney, was also deeply involved with Supervisor Ron Llewellyn’s actions as a Developer of real estate projects located within Warren County.

This business relationship began before Llewellyn sought public office and continued after Llewellyn was elected as Supervisor for the North River District

On 16 May 2003 Warren County Attorney Napier became Registered Agent on file with the State Corporation Commission representing Swan Farm Limited Liability Corporation, ID# S097470, a real estate development project owned by private citizen Llewellyn and possible other partners.

On 4 November 2003 Llewellyn was elected to the Warren County Board of Supervisors to represent the North River District.

On 3 August 2004 Warren County Attorney Napier became Registered Agent on file with the State Corporation Commission representing Catlett Road Limited Liability Corporation, ID# S129345, a real estate development project owned by Warren County Supervisor Llewellyn and possible other partners.

On 28 December 2005 Warren County Attorney Napier became Registered Agent on file with the State Corporation Commission representing LBX3 Limited Liability Corporation, ID# S174305, a real estate development project owned by Warren County Supervisor Llewellyn and brothers Charlie and Stephen and possible other partners.

The above 3 events beg the question, “How does the Attorney-Client Privilege conflict Napier’s roll as County Attorney representing Warren County and his roll as Registered Agent for multiple companies with official business before the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors? Mr. Napier’s client is a sitting Board member. Napier’s job as County Attorney is to provide legal advice to the Planning Commission, the Board Of Supervisors, and other county government officials.

To this mix factor in Llewellyn’s dual position as a Developer with business before the Board of Supervisors and as a sitting Supervisor on the Board, all conveniently wrapped up in the loving attorney-client arms of Doug Napier.

What could possibly be wrong about these relationships affecting the best interests of Warren County residents?

Should a Warren County Supervisor discuss his personal real estate development interests within the county with other Supervisors and county officials? Llewellyn says he did not discuss his business deals with anybody. Why should we believe him?

Should the Warren County Attorney become involved in the private business interests of a citizen who may bring this private business before County agencies for a vote of approval? Did County Attorney Napier ever publicly disclose his business relationship with citizen Llewellyn? Was this ethical?

Should the Warren County Attorney become involved in the private business interests of a sitting member of the County Board of Supervisors who may, acting in the role of Developer, bring this private business before County agencies for vote of approval?

Is this ethical? Documents on file with the Commonwealth of Virginia appear to support the existence of the Napier/Llewellyn business relationship. Did Napier or Llewellyn ever publicly disclose this business relationship?

Clifford Athey, a member of the law firm Napier joined, is a former Mayor of Front Royal, and now Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Athey is active in representing local developers before various governmental agencies. I witnessed one of Mr. Athey's performances before the largely asleep Middletown Town Council representing Dave Holliday's 225 home (plus commercial development) rezoning proposal to be located on the north side of town at the intersection of Reliance Road and Route 11.

Supervisor Traczyk is constantly touting the value of the property known as Royal Phoenix, but has never publicly revealed any information about businesses interested in the property. To date, with no tenants and no sales, where is the value? Is the value in the future with future tenants and future sales? Why is no business on board today? Waiting for a better deal, perhaps?

When Mr. Napier resigned, he took with him all of his experiences while employed as County Attorney. From the Meeting Minutes of the Warren County Board of Supervisors:

02-21-2006 BOS Meeting Minutes:
“Mr. Napier noted that under the consent agenda the County would be accepting the 28.5 acre site from the Industrial Development Authority for the Soccerplex facility.”

04-04-2006 BOS Meeting Minutes:
“Mr. Napier reported that he would be attending an Economic Development Authority meeting that afternoon to discuss, among other things, negotiations regarding the redevelopment of the Royal Phoenix site (former Avtex site).”

05-16-2006 BOS Meeting Minutes:
“Mr. Napier reported that he the Economic Development Authority (EDA) would be holding its regular meeting Friday, May 19, 2006 at 8:00 a.m. and Mr. Stanley and he would attend. He noted that he continued to work with the EDA in drafting contracts and other legal documents with private businesses and industries to further promote economic development in Warren County.”

08-01-2006 BOS Meeting Minutes:
“Mr. Napier reported that he continued to provided legal advice and documents on a daily basis not only to the County staff, Board of Supervisors and Constitutional Officers, but to the Economic Development Authority, who had been busy selling its properties in industrial parks to industrial concerns. He said this brought these properties into productive tax-paying status, which helped funding.”

Two weeks after this flurry of activity involving the Economic Development Authority, drafting contracts and other legal documents, and providing legal advice on a daily basis, Mr. Napier decides to bolt for the door, leaving his 30-year tenure as County Attorney without giving a customary notice of intent to resign. What was the big hurry, the pressing urgency, he could not give a customary 2-week or 30 day notice?

08-15-2006 BOS Meeting Minutes:
“Mr. Traczyk reported that Mr. Napier had tendered his resignation effective immediately. Mr. Llewellyn read Mr. Napier’s letter of resignation. Mr. Llewellyn said he had enjoyed working with Mr. Napier and felt that Mr. Napier had done an outstanding job.”

“On a motion by Mr. Llewellyn, seconded by Mr. Fox and by the following vote, the Board of Supervisors accepted the resignation letter tendered by Mr. Napier:

Carter, aye; Fox, aye; Llewellyn, aye; Traczyk, aye; Weinberg, aye”

09-05-2006 BOS Meeting Minutes:
“Mr. Stanley reported that at the last Board meeting it had been announced that Mr. Douglas Napier had resigned to take on other legal opportunities. Since there were several unfinished matters in which Mr. Napier had been involved, the County asked him to remain as a consultant to work on these projects through December 31, 2006 and Mr. Napier agreed.”

In a 02-09-2007 Northern Virginia Dailey article by Ben Orcutt:
“…former Warren County Attorney Douglas W. Napier says that the contractual arrangement that North River Supervisor Ron L. Llewellyn has with Brookfield Homes is above board.”

To calm growing vocal opposition to his association with Brookfield Washington over the Catlett Road development, Mr. Llewellyn gave us the impression he had sought and received an unbiased legal endorsement from former County Attorney Douglas Napier as to the propriety of the Brookfield/Llewellyn contractual agreement. Mr. Llewellyn did not disclose his behind the scenes relationship with Napier. The summary of Mr. Napier’s review of the Llewellyn/Brookfield contract amounted to, Yep, it sure is a contract all right. That description falls far short of “without potential for conflict of interest”.

Mr. Napier did not disclose his relationship with Llewellyn as his 3-times-over Registered Agent on file with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. This relationship and Mr. Napier’s failure to disclose it raises multiple questions best asked by the voting constituents of Warren County.

According to the Northern Virginia Dailey article, Mr. Napier went on to say the terms of the contract were such that the monies Llewellyn received were his to keep no matter what happened with the zoning and development. If that were true, why the need to record the money Llewellyn received as a lien against the properties? Has Brookfield simply given over $2,000,000.00 to Llewellyn without expecting something in return?

Napier describes the transactions between Llewellyn and Brookfield as purchase contracts. Two separate Deeds of Trust on file at the Warren County Courthouse, one for Swan Farm and one for Catlett Road, describes the transactions as loans secured by liens against the properties.

The question raised is what is the true nature of this $2,000,000.00 money exchange? Is it a gift, a loan, a purchase contract, or a buy-in as a partner?

Napier goes on to opine, “I feel almost certain that’s what it was.” Napier’s comments resemble nothing like a definitive legal statement absolving Llewellyn of conflict of interest or an explanation as to the true nature of the contracts.

Perhaps someone not so close to the action as Mr. Napier should examine the legal documents between Supervisor Llewellyn and Brookfield? I would enjoy a second opinion by a disinterested third party. Perhaps someone with standing such as District Court Judge Hupp could be persuaded to do the examination without prejudice?

Mr. Napier has joined the law firm of Pond, Athey, Athey & Pond. The website www.findlaw.com has information showing another attorney by the name of Ronald Lewis Napier working for the firm. Any relation? Is this the same Ronald Lewis Napier a current or former Judge?

The same website, www.findlaw.com, allows legal professionals to examine cases litigated by other attorneys. Douglas W. Napier, as a law firm employee, shows 3 cases on file, 2 State, 1 Federal. I wonder what they were about? Anybody care to enlighten me?

In business and industry, employee contracts, especially those professions working with sensitive, sometimes proprietary information, it is common to include an anti-competitive clause. This type of clause prevents an employee from running off with the company secrets to use for his own benefit for a period of time after his departure.

Hmmmmm……..so many questions, so few answers. Isn’t the time ripe for anybody with information to step forward?

Mr. Llewellyn is a Glass House resident throwing rocks when he accuses his election opponent, Mr. White, of ethical blindness. Shame on you, Ron.

A Glass House Resident Throws Rocks

Subject: Business Relationships With Developers Email

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Pierceall
To: Supervisor Ron Llewellyn

Cc: [Undisclosed Recepients]

Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:36 AM
Subject: Business Relationships With Developers

Mr. Llewellyn,
Two recent newspaper articles have quoted you as saying your opponent in the November election, Mr. White, does business with developers.

In The Warren County Report late September edition you are quoted as saying this about Mr. White:
“As a challenger in a race he has to find a way to try to separate himself from the incumbent. And it’s often hard for challengers to do that. But in his case he knows better than to say some of the things he’s said because as a real estate agent he does work with developers.”

Further, you were quoted as saying:

“You have to chuckle when you do have a real estate agent who deals directly with many developers, and Glenn does deal with other developers on selling their projects. But it’s easy to cast stones and what else is he going to talk about other than this potential difference between us?” Llewellyn asks."

An article appearing in the 09-13-2007 Northern Virginia Daily had this to say:
"Llewellyn said that White could benefit from development because he is a real estate agent. White works part time as a real estate agent at Weichert Realty in Front Royal. White said that as a real estate agent, he sells existing houses and doesn't do development."

In the interests of accuracy and fairness, I’m interested in getting to the bottom of this, as I assume you are too.

It is common public knowledge you, Mr. Llewellyn, received something over $2,000,000.00 from Brookfield Washington LLC, a developer and builder of high density housing projects and other projects as well, in connection with 2 of your development projects, Swan Farm and Catlett Road. There may be others involving other developers, but for now, let us concentrate on just these two.

Do you deny you have a business relationship with Brookfield Washington LLC? If you do not, please say so now and set the record straight.

Now let us look at the business relationships of Mr. White.

You implied Mr. White does business with "many" developers. Do you, Mr. Llewellyn, have specific knowledge of any business relationship involving ANY developer and Mr. White? Do you know of any other person who has that knowledge?

If you do, please say so now. I (and perhaps others) would like to independently verify that relationship and alert the voters.

Best regards,
Bill Pierceall