The revisionist history has begun. While discussing a contract for an owner advisor on the dock project, Mayor Tom Morphet and Eben Sargent characterize our relationship with the previous contractors as full of “complications and distrust” or claiming R&M was “working for Turnagain,” not for us.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Last year Morphet and some assembly members were working against the will of the majority to undermine the contract with Turnagain by attempting to change the dock design, approved by the planning commission, ports and harbors and the Haines assembly. Morphet wants to rewrite history and make you believe it was the contractors’ fault that the project failed. Our contractors were working in your best interest to complete the dock project.
The reason Morphet and his fellow conspirators think the contractors were at fault is due to the fact that he could not bend them to his will and undermine our contract by changing the design. The contractors are his scapegoat, and now one has taken us to court. Mediation has failed, the next step is litigation.
To exonerate himself, Morphet proposes that our contractors were at fault and Sargent claims that “R&M started working for Turnagain and not enough as our bulldog.” Nothing is further from the truth. Let’s see how Morphet works his magic to convince us of his alternate fact in his campaign to change history and steer us into his alternate reality. I doubt a judge will be convinced.
Richard Clement