Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Greg Davis: its everyone's fault but his.

Southaven Mayor Greg "His Name is Lancelot" Davis blames shady land deals on the Southaven Board of Aldermen. See, he's just an ignorant rube and didn't approve anything. It's those Aldermen that approved sweetheart deals with his friends. Never mind searching the title, appraising the property, and putting the deal together is the Mayor's responsibility. Nope, it's the Aldermen's fault. The AP reports:

"SOUTHAVEN — Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, speaking publicly for the first time about business dealings that benefited friends and associates, said he believes he did nothing wrong because the city’s aldermen approved all transactions.

Davis spoke yesterday with The Commercial Appeal about deals involving a Florida condominium he co-owns with a developer who has received more than $3.4 million through real estate dealings with the city since 2008, a fire station that could cost taxpayers up to $4 million because of an unusual no-bid contract negotiated by Davis, and other recently reported transactions....

Davis, who is under criminal investigation for misuse of city funds after being ordered by the state auditor to repay about $170,000, said he couldn’t do anything without approval from the Board of Aldermen.

“What I think people need to realize is I don’t sign contracts without board authority,” said Davis, 45. “I don’t approve payments, so I don’t see how there could be any correlation between me returning favors for anyone because I am not the decision-maker. My job is to implement the policies approved by the board.”

One alderman responded to Davis’ comments by saying again that the mayor kept them in the dark about much of what he was doing.

“He would bring us the deals that we trusted him to present honestly and ethically but would give us half the story,” Alderman Ronnie Hale said. “He is speaking out to the media now because he is in this blame game, trying to take the heat off himself so he will look better. But we are not playing games with him. We are here to do what is in the best interest of the citizens.”....

Regarding a 20-acre site where Roberts’ firm, RH Holdings, pocketed $45,000 for a single day’s work, Davis said he didn’t know how much his friend made from the transaction.

“I was not there when he closed on the deal,” Davis said. “I can’t emphasize enough that a mayor in a co-chartered city, by law, doesn’t enter into land deals or authorize payments on these deals.
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Dear Lancelot, when the city spends over $300,000 on a tract of land, it is supposed to do what is called a title search. That is where the attorney reviews the ownership of the land and then notifies the buyer and/or lender of any defects in title. In this case, the lawyer for the city should have told the city the land belonged to someone else other than the claimed seller so the blame falls right back on the Mayor, who will probably blame some poor secretary making $25,000 for the whole mess. BUT we are not finished with Lancelot. The Commercial Appeal reported today the Chamber of Commerce paid his expenses, no questions asked, no receipts needed. I kid you not:

"The reports released Tuesday by the chamber to The Commercial Appeal include a statement by auditors saying they "were unable to examine sufficient documentation'' involving $75,800 in expenses incurred in 2008 and 2009.

Overall, Davis is believed to have received as much as $123,807 from the chamber between 2008 and 2010 for expenses incurred while promoting the city to prospective businesses.

A source familiar with the reports said the chamber couldn't fulfill auditors' demands for documentation because the organization didn't require Davis to submit receipts and simply accepted periodic handwritten invoices from the mayor
..." Article


10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just looking at and listening to Mayor Davis, one would not think him sharp enough to defraud the entire city and chamber and get away with it. But, then, many of us thought the same thing about Lieutenant Graham.

Anonymous said...

22 minutes of Mayor Sex Store explaining there is nothing to see.

Video link to WMC interview of Mayor Sex Store:

http://www.wmctv.com/category/195967/video-landing-page?clipId=6739348&autostart=true

"Mistakes" might have been made; but the world and city of Southaven has people who are against him because they just don't understand how to make the third largest city in Mississippi from nothing but hard sweat and expense account drinking and eating and showing important people you know how to tip. He has noticed a few are haters too.

Anonymous said...

Lance a lot. That's funny.

Anonymous said...

I gave up on the 22 minute interview, but the WMC site had a story to go with the video.

http://www.wmctv.com/story/16926483/southaven-mayor-greg-davis-first-tv-interview

Davis said that all of the money he spent came from a fund designated by the state legislature to promote Southaven.

Anonymous said...

Interestingly enough one of the details mentioned in the story concerning the Chamber of Commerce and the expense account reveals that at the Chamber the Mayors reimbursements were approved by someone he owned property with.

The same story reports the same person has other real estate dealings with the City of Southaven.

Anonymous said...

Davis has been half-ass even since he was a legislator. BTW, he was hand-picked by John Grisham to take Grisham's seat when he left the legislature when his writing career took off suddenly.

Given that there is about a year to do this, some group in Southaven ought to get candidates together and run a "clean house" slate to replace not only Davis (the politically walking dead) but also ALL of the Aldermen, who obviously were complacent in their duties to watch the public money.

Anonymous said...

Are we mixing our Davises? Both of then look as if they grew up eating plutonium, but one is mayor and one was a legislator.

Unbelievable: My word verification is "consmuch".

James said...

No, 6:36, MAYOR Davis was a legislator before he was Mayor. The kinfolk, Doug Davis, was only a legislator.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully Davis will end up in Parchmen, there he can get all the kinky sex he wants.

Anonymous said...

Check out the Desoto Times Tribune article from Thursday:

Mayor explains how it all works. When it comes to real estate deals and leases. Also explains large tips and how his email is 6 to one in support of him.


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