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Remember the Federal Courthouse? Ken Mettler thinks it’s a scam. The developer/school board member/president of the Republican Assembly of Kern County says the city is donating its land — part of Central Park — to a private developer, who in turn will get rich off a federal lease. Donna Kunz, the city’s economic development director, said the federal General Services Administration demanded that the underlying land be donated. The amount of money available for the courthouse isn’t enough to cover the cost of land and a new building. Kunz says that’s not at all unusual. Mettler says it’s very unusual. You may have thought this was a done deal back in 2006. But Edwin Wilson is trying to talk the city out of putting the courthouse on the Central Park site. Wilson owns some downtown land that he says would be better for the courthouse. Kunz says the Wilson land was rejected by GSA in 2006 in favor of the southwest site, which then resulted...
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