Tom Bulllock Wants Lakewood To Adopt British Rule
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 10:07 pm
Bullock is the gift that keeps giving.
He is kicking off the new "PAC of Lies" talking points on Monday night where wants to have Lakewood adopt the British Rule.
He wants the taxpayers in the taxpayer lawsuit to pay the city's legal expenses.
If he understood the law, the Taxpayer Lawsuit is based upon a statute that would allow the taxpayers to be awarded legal fees.
The legislature specifically decided not to allow the defendants, i.e Summers and the city. their attorney fees.
But that won't stop Tom "Grandstand" Bullock from Grandstanding.
BTW, Bullock was happy to divert $50K in charitable taxpayer funds to support a PAC of lies last year.
What a hypocrite.
Re: Enumerating costs to Lakewood taxpayers of defending hospital lawsuit
Dear Mayor and Members of Council:
For more than a year, the City of Lakewood has been conducting a legal defense against a
lawsuit brought by five Lakewood citizens against the City and other parties related to the plan, now in
effect, to preserve dozens of medical services in the heart of Lakewood' s downtown by transitioning
Lakewood Hospital to an outpatient medical center.
Those citizens filed the lawsuit relying on their legal standing as taxpayers, speaking in those
legal documents as if they represent all taxpayers, although they do not. Not only do the plaintiffs not
speak for all Lakewood taxpayers: they are costing their fellow Lakewood taxpayers a significant sum
of money due to the costs of the legal representation required by the City necessitated by their lawsuit.
Those costs comprise both direct costs, such as payments to the law film providing outside
counsel, and indirect costs, such as the personnel costs of employee time required for legal and public
records work entailed by the lawsuit.
By this letter, I am officially requesting that the Administration provide an exact enumeration
of all direct costs involved with the lawsuit to date as well as an accounting of indirect costs. I also
request a projection of additional costs, both direct and indirect, that will be incurred by the City in
conducting the remainder of the still - pending lawsuit, to the degree that is possible.
Finally, I request that the Administration state whether the City can pursue a legal avenue in the
lawsuit that could compensate Lakewood taxpayers, in whole or in part, for the costs of this lawsuit
which five of their neighbors have filed without their consent.
Sincerely,
Thomas R. Bullock III
He is kicking off the new "PAC of Lies" talking points on Monday night where wants to have Lakewood adopt the British Rule.
He wants the taxpayers in the taxpayer lawsuit to pay the city's legal expenses.
If he understood the law, the Taxpayer Lawsuit is based upon a statute that would allow the taxpayers to be awarded legal fees.
The legislature specifically decided not to allow the defendants, i.e Summers and the city. their attorney fees.
But that won't stop Tom "Grandstand" Bullock from Grandstanding.
BTW, Bullock was happy to divert $50K in charitable taxpayer funds to support a PAC of lies last year.
What a hypocrite.
Re: Enumerating costs to Lakewood taxpayers of defending hospital lawsuit
Dear Mayor and Members of Council:
For more than a year, the City of Lakewood has been conducting a legal defense against a
lawsuit brought by five Lakewood citizens against the City and other parties related to the plan, now in
effect, to preserve dozens of medical services in the heart of Lakewood' s downtown by transitioning
Lakewood Hospital to an outpatient medical center.
Those citizens filed the lawsuit relying on their legal standing as taxpayers, speaking in those
legal documents as if they represent all taxpayers, although they do not. Not only do the plaintiffs not
speak for all Lakewood taxpayers: they are costing their fellow Lakewood taxpayers a significant sum
of money due to the costs of the legal representation required by the City necessitated by their lawsuit.
Those costs comprise both direct costs, such as payments to the law film providing outside
counsel, and indirect costs, such as the personnel costs of employee time required for legal and public
records work entailed by the lawsuit.
By this letter, I am officially requesting that the Administration provide an exact enumeration
of all direct costs involved with the lawsuit to date as well as an accounting of indirect costs. I also
request a projection of additional costs, both direct and indirect, that will be incurred by the City in
conducting the remainder of the still - pending lawsuit, to the degree that is possible.
Finally, I request that the Administration state whether the City can pursue a legal avenue in the
lawsuit that could compensate Lakewood taxpayers, in whole or in part, for the costs of this lawsuit
which five of their neighbors have filed without their consent.
Sincerely,
Thomas R. Bullock III
