We expect to receive assurances that if the city of West Wendover becomes the owner of Wendover Gas it will not sell its gas at a loss.
What’s the old saying fool us once shame on you, fool us twice shame on us.
We have lost count on how many times the citizens of West W
endover were fooled by assurances from local government that they would not have to pay for or suffer from the next big boondoggle, only to see the results on their property tax bills or increased fees for something or other.
Some of the biggest whoppers we remember include the golf course, the new city hall, the bus service, the sell off of city property at an ‘open’ auction only for the city council to change the rules after the auction was over.
There are probably many more some we forget and some we never found out.
And we will probably never find out about the price the city will charge for gas.
As a commodity it is bound to fluctuate and whose to say if the city is taking a loss or making a profit.
Yes we know the city will supply numbers and numbers on numbers.
We remember seeing numbers on virtually every project or deal the city has undertaken and any resemblance those predictions had with the truth were purely coincidental, if they happened at all.
There is a good way to tell if a private business is doing well in the market place. It either stays open or it closes.
With a public enterprise that law of the jungle is more of a suggestion.
At least it begins as a suggestion.
However if mismanagement becomes too much even publicly owned concerns will eventually fold.
it just takes a whole lot longer and it will take a lot of people with it.
As the election season begins we will miss Alfonso Orazco even more.
Every two years we would sit and stratagize on what we could do to increase the number of Latinos on the voting rolls.
And every two years we failed miserably.
Still we tried and every two years Alfonso would proclaim that this was the year. the issues local, statewide and nationally were so important that Wendover Latinos would flock to the polls.
He was always wrong but stayed optimistic.
What Alfonso could not do in life, perhaps he can accomplish with his death.
We can think of no better tribute to the man if that wave of latino voters he had so longed for would register this year for his memory.
Si se pueda!!!