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Keystone Writer

(65 posts) Fri Mar 2, 2012, 10:45 AM Mar 2012

This guy has it all figured out. I read it in a reader's forum.

The link to the article is included, but Sean Kell's comment is in the reader's forum.

He called it the Chamber of Commerce's Corruption Food Chain, and if we can get this message to a broader audience, I think we will have found the Chamber's Achille's Heel.

1. Corrupt local officials give our tax dollars to their local chamber.

2. Naive small businesses join their local Chamber with money you spend buying their services.

3.The local Chamber helps support the US Chamber

4. The US Chamber spends money lobbying for big busines to recieve things like tax breaks for moving jobs over seas and the recent Supreme Court battle which now gives corporations the legal right to find fund and push any politician they choose with unlimited amounts of cash.

http://discussions.orlandosentinel.com/20/orlnews/os-scott-maxwell-chamber-honesty-money-030212-20120301/10

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This guy has it all figured out. I read it in a reader's forum. (Original Post) Keystone Writer Mar 2012 OP

Just Curious - What Happens If You Are A Small Businessman In A Community And Refuse To Join..... global1 Mar 2012 #1

I have heard stories. Keystone Writer Mar 2012 #2

global1

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1. Just Curious - What Happens If You Are A Small Businessman In A Community And Refuse To Join.....

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Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:57 PM

Mar 2012

your local chamber of commerce? Do they in turn make it hard for you to survive as a business in that community? Is it a form of extortion/insurance like mob tactics you would see on an episode of the Soprano's? Anyone out in DU land have any experience with your local chambers of commerce?

Keystone Writer

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2. I have heard stories.

Reply to global1 (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 02:27 PM

Mar 2012

A reader in another article in the same paper, did specify that they experienced extortion tactics.

I can see it happen in Central Florida. In my city where there is no deviation between the city and the local mover and shakers, yes, it gets ugly. Very ugly. It's a double hit. Not only are there negative ramifications for not playing along, but you have to sit back and see the most corrupt people get rewarded for selling you out.

What do you call it when a city discretely passes public money to a private development through a beautification project supported by a ring of good ole boys who have been sitting on people to keep them quiet about fraud and conspiracy?

And, yes, many of them are now members of the local chamber of commerce.

The legal authorities have been asleep at the wheel.

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