Shame on Ed Hollett

Someone should do something about those awful Bond Papers. Ed Hollett scribbles today:

What was it Danny Williams said about that business of announcing old announcements so that it appears like more money than is actually there?

Oh yeah:

"But to come in and double- and triple-announce money, that's giving the appearance of being new money, that's misleading...".

We couldn't agree more.

It's misleading.

Ed Hollett is misleading. He is totally taking Williams Government’s words out of context. Williams Government’s full, original, unedited remarks were:

As these contracts are let, then we notify the people in the communities that they’re let. So there is a double process there, but it’s not about getting a second bang for the buck on these things, it’s a matter of fact it’s about informing people early, and then once the contracts are awarded, it’s letting them know after. But to come in and double- and triple-announce money, that's giving the appearance of being new money, that's just – that’s misleading...

Williams Government is not “misleading” by re-hashing the announcement of its autonomous use of federal funding to autonomously make some Williams Government buildings “greener” and more autonomous.

No, not misleading at all.

Williams Government is merely “notifying The People”, through its “double process” thereby “informing people early”.

Presumably, once the contracts are actually awarded, it will then become a “triple process” that will “let The People know after”. There might even be a “quadruple process” when the switch is ceremonially thrown on the new, autonomous, green energy systems.

It is not about “getting the second bang for the buck.”

Totally different.

Shame on you, Sir, for suggesting otherwise.

Shame on you.