Flashpoint for Nov. 8, 2005

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005 | 8:02 a.m.

By Jon Ralston

So now that we have the punishment baseline established by Mayor Oscar Goodman -- lose your thumb if you deface public property -- let's apply the standard to the newest Waltergate at City Hall. Seems that developer Billy Walters might have been given preferential treatment on a 1997 deal on the Royal Links Golf Course, with help from a sweetheart of a Public Works director. So what happens to the city attorney, city manager and mayor who covered up these revelations with a speak-no-evil attitude before a critical vote Walters needed to free up the land for lucrative residential development? If graffitists should lose their thumbs, how about a snip of the tongue for the city trio?

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