Conflict

Some interesting and provocative news from the Chico News & Review…It is Chico news and technically it doesn’t involve me, but since I’m sure it happens everywhere, I think it’s worth mentioning. It seems that every election year the Chamber of Commerce conducts a review of the candidates for City Council and then endorses those candidates it feels will be “business friendly”. There certainly is nothing wrong with that…on the surface. That same Chamber of Commerce also goes to the City Council and asks for funding as a community organization. And they always want the most of any organization; $118,948 this year. Whoa! And guess what? They have always received their requested amounts. Does anyone see a conflict of interest here?