Justice or Spectacle? Isabella O’Brien, Hegseth & Government Accountability

We're going to examine two major local spending matters.

Osage Beach is considering substantial police and ambulance capital expenditures, including a replacement ambulance and multiple police vehicles.

Lake Ozark is moving towards spending $530,000 on two parcels of land.

totaling roughly 12.5 acres, with plans in the future to consolidate public works and preserve land for a possible future city hall and police department.

That's not a scandal.

It's a public decision involving public money, and so it deserves more than just a headline unanimous vote.

I'm not against it.

I think the city hall now is old and crappy, and so I don't know.

We're supposed to be some kind of a resort place.

My initial reaction would be, well, I wonder who's behind this.

It would be, you know, geez, I wonder who's profiting from this.

It's because it'll be something like that.

Somebody will be profiting somewhere else.

and has connections to somebody somewhere.

And that's the sad part.

But I'm not against a program.

We're also going to spend a little bit of the program on those two.

And we're going to spend a substantial portion of this program on the death of two-year-old Isabella O'Brien.

and a federal lawsuit filed by her family.

We have now in our grubby little paws the original complaint, their amended complaint, a copy of the search warrant, the warrant application itself, that's the important thing, what they said to get a judge to give them a warrant, and The children's division notes when they were stealing people's children.

That's what people do.

And I don't know these people, and I say that just because I don't like children's division.

They're always that way.

The people that work there are extremely condescending.

And what really troubles me is when people take kids away from their parents I don't believe it's as serious a consideration as it ought to be.