Who Is Paying Vic Ajlouny?

And, for that matter Dean Munro?

A source revealed to us that a recent trip down to the City Clerk's office discovered that neither man a) is listed as a City employee, nor b) has a public contract with the City.

Each, however, has a city email address, speaks on behalf of the City, and has been mentioned repeatedly as a 'consultant' or 'advisor' to the Mayor's office. (See, for example, here for Vic and here for Dean.) I have a strong suspicion that neither is doing this for free.

As if secret contracts for the Mayor's political friends weren't bad enough, each is also working separately for entities that can receive a direct benefit from association with the Mayor. Ajlouny is the consultant to the campaign of Hon Lien, whose marionette strings are becoming more visible by the minute, and Munro, of course, represents the Sports Authority, recent recipients of Chuck Reed's commitment of millions of dollars from our City's general fund.

Mayor Chuck Tweed ran on a platform of openness. A platform of fiscal accountability. A platform of honesty. This scenario fails all three of those qualifications, and fails the smell test to boot.

ATTENTION MERCURY NEWS: Once you're done fawning over our new Mayor, see above for an editorial that writes itself.