And yet in this very article she says she "was concerned about the outcome of their contest “because there had been mischaracterizations of different facts, and I didn’t know if I had an opportunity to correct the record with enough people...."
So if she was so concerned, why not correct what the only public forum in the community was reflecting? Why not reference "the public record" in her reply? The fact remains the carbon-fiber boondoggle has been a tremendous waste of public money, and has not produced the jobs promised, nor does it show signs of doing that.