NM Spaceport Presentation Elicits Many Questions

During the question and answer period after Steve Landeene's presentation to Otero County Republicans, Wednesday, September 17, most questions that required a definitive answer remained unanswered.

To the question "will the Spaceport Authority guarantee that ancillary businesses to the spaceport be located in Alamogordo or Otero County?" Mr. Landeene's hesitant answer was that there are no guarantees in life. So much for that concern.

Would the Spaceport Authority protect against the takeover by foreign concerns? Nope. In fact Spaceport Authority has already contracted with DMJM for architectural services. Sounds benign, right? Turns out that DMJM - Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall (architecture, engineering, and construction services firm) is a global firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Mr. Landeene said he did not know where their headquarters are - who believed that whopper?

DMJM will be awarding the contracts for construction and probably the management of the spaceport. Let's take a look at who DMJM contracts with and you decide if any contractor or business in Southern New Mexico has a snowball's chance of participating in NM Spaceport:

Here is the link to their Global Offices: http://www.dmjmhn.aecom.com/Office/38/47/index.jsp

Oh, don't forget that the parent company of DMJM is AECOM. Check out their home page: http://www.aecom.com/ Global doesn't even begin to describe it.
The Americas: http://www.aecom.com/Office/38/46/index.jsp
Over Twenty offices in China: http://www.aecom.com/Office/38/50/index.jsp Austrailia/Pacific Rim: http://www.aecom.com/Office/38/49/index.jsp
Europe: http://www.aecom.com/Office/38/48/index.jsp

Hello, Otero County, wake up. You are being sold a crock in too many ways to address in one post. You are in over your heads and what is so sad is you won't admit it:

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These are the folks that are going to make the bucks. We have resources in Otero County, why not use them and clean up our own back yard and make this a place people will come to for the right reasons? Sometimes, the basics are all you have to do.