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Candidate: McLennan County on the hook for bonds on privatized jail

I received an interesting press release this weekend from a county judge candidate in Waco regarding alleged misreportage by the local paper, the Tribune-Herald (now paid only, no story available), regarding the financing arrangement for McLennan County's new, mostly empty, privatized jail, repeating many of the critiques of the project's ill-conceived fiscal arrangement voiced frequently on Grits, albeit in shrill campaign rhetoric:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERalph Cooper, Candidate for County Judge, Challenges Trib Story about Dallas County Inmates, Alleges Continued Falsification of Facts about the Jail ContractRalph Cooper, Candidate for County Judge of McLennan County, issued a blog post and email blitz this morning in response to the lead article in today?s Waco Tribune-Herald...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).