CEDAR RAPIDS — a 15-million dollars granting EMPLOYMENT remains safely in space today although Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller on Tuesday said City Hall here was "stronger legal arguments" by Gov. Terry Branstad in their ongoing dispute over a contract agreement project task in a complex project of the town 75.6-million dollars.
As notable as anything in the comments of the Miller was what he said was the inability to adopt a formal legal opinion on this subject because of the long-standing policy of adopting these opinions when litigation is pending or imminent.
Lawsuits pending a possible option appeared Tuesday after the Governor's Office dismissed Miller's analysis of the dispute and, in any case, said the Governor was not bound by it.
Disputes also seemed likely Tuesday after Mayor Ron Corbett said a second option, in which the city would give the 15-million-dollar employment to implement complex project contract, was not an option.
In the heart of the matter is Executive Order 69, Branstand, which he set on taking office January and prohibiting the expenditure of State funds into public works agreements work project.
Job City project agreement with the Iowa and Cedar Rapids City building and construction trades Council and Scott Smith, Chairman of the group, which is not included on Tuesday by saying the Agency would go to court to stop the Governor by withholding State funds from the city's Convention Complex because of the project task.
Smith noted, however, that the Convention complex plan of the city is only one of three in the country from which the Office of Governor has threatened to withhold state funds because of project labor agreements. The other two projects — University of Iowa hospitals and clinics, outpatient clinic to build Meteorological and a job in Iowa Veterans Home to the Clarion — have now set aside their labor agreements to comply with the order of Smith said Branstad.
"The Governor does not have the right to invalidate existing agreements," Smith said, adding that Attorney General Miller comments on Tuesday said too much. "Allowing the Governor to fly legally binding contracts would be a dangerous precedent for Iowans of all political persuasions."
Miller's comments came with letters three democratic State legislators had asked Miller weighs. Legislators — Sen. Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids, Sen. Robert Dvorsky, D-Ia and DEMOCRATIC Todd Taylor, D-Cedar Rapids — submitted by Smith for help, Smith said.
In his comments, the Advocate General noted that the Supreme Court of Iowa argued the project labor agreements that do not discriminate between Union and non Union workers.
In addition, Miller pointed out that Spencer Convention complex project receives 35 million dollars in Federal aid, adding that Federal projects are subject to a presidential executive order that said specifically allows the use of project labor agreements.
"The Government expects Courts to meet his contractual obligations," said Miller. "The Governor needs to resolve the dispute with the city, or live up to the State grant agreement and allow the city to live the project labor agreement."
The comments come from a democratic attorney general with three democratic State legislators, in the event of a dispute involving a Republican Governor.
Just in January, Miller and Branstad went their separate ways filing legal briefs in the case of the Federal patient protection and affordable care Act, with Miller, arguing that health care reform law is constitutional and Branstad.
Tim-Albrecht, spokesman of the Governor, on Tuesday dismissed Miller's series of comments on the Governor's Executive, which sounded as pointed out on the subject, such as Branstad two weeks ago, when he visited Cedar Rapids.
"The bottom line, the Attorney General has declined to issue an opinion on this matter," Albrecht said. "The Office of Governor remains committed to ensuring the enforcement of Executive Order 69 forward and is confident that it will withstand any legal challenge".
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