Ken Avidor comments:
Folks,
If you're looking for something good to embarrass Michele Bachmann with, it's her high-profile support for PRT and the Taxi 2000/Skyweb Corporation. Bachmann has authored PRT legislation in 2004 and 2005. PRT has a 30-year record of failure and controversy. Although it calls itself "transit", it is not supported by traditional transit groups such as Transit for Livable Communities and the Sierra Club Northstar
(both organizations have resolutions opposing public funding of PRT projects).
I have looked at the court records in the Taxi 2000 Corporation vs J. Edward Anderson lawsuit in Hennepin District Court and there is plenty there to show that Taxi 2000 was a very snarky operation... most likely an investment swindle... Minnesota's mini-Enron.
There's a sample of the exhibits in the case here.
Like Enron, the Taxi 2000 story is very complicated, so I've been encouraging publications to assign reporters to investigate PRT and sort out fact from fiction.
Please write to the editors of the Star Tribune and other Minnesota newspapers and Minnesota business publications and ask for an investigative article into what's going on with the Taxi 2000 lawsuit and the connections between Taxi 2000 and politicians like Michele Bachmann, Mark Olson and others.
People need to ask why Bachmann is authoring and supporting legislation that would benefit a corporation (with tax exemptions and subsidies) that is in deep trouble (suing its founder and former CEO). |
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