So, the City Council's investigative counsel suggested to @lennycurry's chief admin officer, Brian Hughes, that the reason the JEA bidding timeline was accelerated was to save the whole effort because the public was losing confidence. Here's his (under oath) response to that: 1/

Note: "Cynical" and "stupid."

So, which pundits suggested this outrageous claim? Who could possibly have believed the timeline to sell JEA was accelerated to save it? Well, Hughes' deputy admin officer, Stephanie Burch, and the city treasurer - who were on the negotiating team:

(Those two were the ones responsible for actually making the decision to accelerate the timeline).

Happy Wednesday!

But maybe the mayor had a totally different goal in mind when he - independently of the negotiators (he wasn't supposed to communicate with them) - spontaneously had the same idea to publicly advocate for accelerating the bidding process on the same timeline.

Now I can certainly agree accelerating the timeline to save the privatization process was cynical. But suggesting it was done for that purpose, when two of the negotiating team members (who are part of Curry's administration), acknowledged as much? That's just a reading exercise.