Get it? Good LB officials, bad U.S. Senator.

But as LBReport.com reported yesterday, the real story is nearly the opposite: some official(s) at LB City Hall made a decision not to use city money to fund the skatepark. LB officials quietly spent the city money on other things they thought more important.

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Again: LB city officials did this, not the U.S. Senator.

And City Hall did this despite a Sept. 27 media event touting city plans for the skatepark with drawings, speakers and elected officials. LBReport.com was there and covered the story. Plans for the skatepark park were prominently displayed. City officials spoke. None that we recall at that event indicated the skatepark project wasn't a city priority. The entire Sept. 27 event was calculated to create exactly the opposite impression...that the project was a city priority.

This came six weeks before an election that sent LB's then-1st dist. Councilwoman to Sacramento. City Hall organizers of the event invited reporters, knowing full well it would produce print coverage the next day, Sunday, the PT's largest print day.

Successor Councilman Garcia has since said publicly that one of his top priorities on taking office was to ensure the skatepark was built...something we don't recall his saying at any of the 1st dist. campaign events we covered. After Councilman Garcia (busily running for reelection in less than a year) leaned on city management about the skatepark, some person(s) at City Hall whipped it into a federally sought "stimulus" project.

Among the gymnastic claims in the city's HUD application seeking $620,000 federal taxpayer dollars: the skatepark will reduce pollution because users won't have to drive across town.

¡Ya basta! City taxpayers have a right to know who at City Hall diverted city money away from the skatepark in the first place...and how the skatepark became a federal project when it wasn't included in the lengthy list of City Hall's federally-sought stimulus projects for months.

LBReport.com will not let spinners divert attention to a U.S. Senator when the real story is right here in LB.

LBReport.com has made (another) Public Records Act to find out what happened. When we do, we'll report it in full.