World: Lawmaker's Home Sale Raises Queries
By Mick Hinton/Tulsa World Capitol Bureau ~ Rep. Rex Duncan led the neighborhood charge against a company's effort to double the size of its landfill, less than a mile downwind from the west Sand Springs subdivision where the state lawmaker lived.
Duncan was the neighborhood champion, noted for making emotional pleas at several public hearings in early 2006.
But then, American Environmental Landfill Inc. bought Duncan's house, doubling the price the lawmaker had paid for the property 13 years earlier. Duncan, R-Sand Springs, received $270,000 for the house that had cost him $135,000.
Read the entire story at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=12&articleID=20080907_16_A17_Americ956726.
Duncan was the neighborhood champion, noted for making emotional pleas at several public hearings in early 2006.
But then, American Environmental Landfill Inc. bought Duncan's house, doubling the price the lawmaker had paid for the property 13 years earlier. Duncan, R-Sand Springs, received $270,000 for the house that had cost him $135,000.
Read the entire story at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=12&articleID=20080907_16_A17_Americ956726.
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