Endorsement editorial “Charlie Smithgall a hands-on leader” (not posted at www.LancasterOnLine.com) says:
“Even with respect to the $177.6 million downtown Lancaster convention center and hotel – the single-biggest economic-development project in city history – Gray and Smithgall can share in the bragging rights.”
WATCHDOG: Not quite. Rick Gray disclosed new and startling information during last week’s debate.
According to Gray, when there was a $20 million dollar funding gap which was deemed insurmountable, Smithgall had recommended that it was time to reevaluate the project.
Instead Gray called a press conference and told the public that the $20 million had been raised from various sources. It wasn’t true.
It may have been Smithgall’s project at the outset, but he is not one to dissemble.
