HENDERSON Bribed?........

For quite some time it has been rumored that 14th District Metro Councilman Bob Henderson was offered a $30,000 bribe to use his influence to get a contract for the Providence Group of Mississippi for two low income apartment housing projects in PRP, one on Terry Rd and the other one on Moorman Rd.

Both projects have been halted for years because the developer skipped town, possibly with an unknown amount of our money, and then declared bankruptcy last year.

I have often wondered whether these allegations are true.

Then I was offered evidence of a tape recording involving Larry Mattingly, Henderson's Legislative Aide.

Rumors can apparently have some substance after all.

According to sources, Larry Mattingly talked openly about the $30,000 in front of at least 6 witnesses, one of whom is now deceased, and in all honesty I was even shocked by this info. To speak in a group, whether you consider it private or not, about something illegal is very brazen.

In this particular case, in my opinion, he was indeed very brazen. Normal behavior by Henderson and cronies.

The projects in question were to be done through a company named Kentucky Commons via the Providence Group run by W.T. Person. The Providence Group specialized in building low income housing projects, that is before they declared bankruptcy in 2007 (see: http://bankrupt.com/misc/msnb07-11260.pdf). My sources indicated that Henderson actively campaigned for these projects in the Southwest and within government and the tape recording suggests that there was $30,000 involved in this matter.

Larry Mattingly ,Henderson's aide, has a history of questionable ethics himself, including him receiving many FREE truckloads of MSD dirt, the subject of Sarah Lynn Cunningham's Federal whistleblower lawsuit, which she won. (For copies of the testimony by Bob Henderson at the Federal trial click here, contact me).

It is time to let these guys know that we have had enough. We do that by voting them OUT OF OFFICE.

Henderson has had ethics problems, a federal lawsuit, now a tape recording from Henderson's number 1 guy, Larry Mattingly, regarding $30,000. What more do we need?

Time for change folks and the time is now.