In response to the Sunday “Our View” column is doesn't seem the view is seeing correctly or they have on rose colored glasses.

Before my heart attack, I attended all of the AIDA and CCIDA meetings. Usually when a possible new client was there they sent all of us and this included the press, out so we didn't know what they were doing until all of the contracts were signed.

As a union carpenter, I hoped local companies and local people would be employed as they were when the older Lattimore was mayor.

In those days, local money stayed here and the city and county prospered.

Since that time, the agencies have decided not to give any local worker any chance of a job if he is union.

One of our former mayors looked me in the eye and lied about the job we were discussing.

He said nothing had been decided when in truth the contract had been signed by one of his friends and the work already started.

Again the work was not done by local workers.

Why should local money be used to promote jobs that go to import workers who take their wages home with them?

This does not help the tax base, and you know this, being in the business of running the local paper.

If private money is used to promote these agencies they will still operate in secrecy even more.

They break the law now in executive sessions which they cannot show any basis for.

The attorney for the IDA on one occasion stated the executive session was legal right in the meeting when if he had any knowledge of the law, could not have said they were able to use this tactic to send those attending out so they could discuss something they did not want the public to know.

When Lattimore Hall was built, almost all of the work went to another county as did the money. The same happens all the time, so what good are jobs that local people don't get anyway?

I hope “Our View's” vision clears up.

Richard L. Nash

Auburn