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    Don Holbrook's silly groups and his economic development career are dead. Let's give them a proper burial. I will happily offer my services as a degreed musician. Ya know its over when the not so fat lady sings, right???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soapboxmom View Post
    The author Holbrook refers to was talking about political candidates. He is so dang dense he didn't even understand the purpose of the article. We journalists and bloggers share virtually nothing in common with them. Holbrook, however very much so resembles a politician and used car salesman rolled into one. That article very clearly illustrates the dishonest and dirty tactics Holbrook himself employs. Reading that article should be like a frightening look in the mirror for Holbrook!!!
    After reading the first and second rules, my first thoughts were of FranktheBank. But after re-reading 1 and 2, and continuing through 10, I suddenly realized I was reading the "Don Allen Holbrook Manifesto for Wrongly Accused Economic Developers" - definately with ya on that one

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    Quote Originally Posted by Soapboxmom View Post


    Don Holbrook's silly groups and his economic development career are dead. Let's give them a proper burial. I will happily offer my services as a degreed musician. Ya know its over when the not so fat lady sings, right???
    GasBag might as well whip out the super super glue and glue the bumper on those careers.

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    Don Holbroook's wife has been running around showing off a Reverso watch, according to reports I am getting. If Holbrook can afford trinket's like that why is he in bankruptcy again and screwing his creditors???

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    I assume this will show on his expense report for the bankruptcy court as I am forwarding this to the Department of Justice.
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/fa...s-80.html?_r=0
    Reversos range from $5,250 for a women’s model to $13,900 for the Grande GMT version.
    Just where is our bankrupt economic developer getting the money for these high dollar accessories??? I can't wait for the next round of bankruptcy files to post!
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    Gee, Donny your 2011 chapter 7 bankruptcy still in progress lists only $1,000.00 total for the entire family's jewelery. We have all seen just how luxurious a lifestyle you and the wifey have been living over the years. She has been showered with jewelery and very expensive and trendy clothing. Your creditors and the Department of Justice should be demanding answers!
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    A source says there may be a story airing on Channel 2 Investigates concerning Earthquest at 10:00p.m. this evening.

    Houston News Investigations, Local 2 Investigates from KPRC
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    "I'm very confident this is going to happen," Brown said. "That's why I keep spending money every month, like an idiot. hoping it's going to happen. If we only raise $150 million, we're going to do a project. We want to raise the whole $500 million. I believe we can."

    "We have a developer who has a mission to accomplish," McCrady said after the meeting. "Certainly, we are very confident and are placing our faith and trust in the reports we're getting back from our consultants."

    As of Friday, EMCID is not spending any new tax money on the project. The new developer is paying for all the costs associated with the pre-development. If the project breaks ground and gets final approval, Brown said his company would pay back around $8 million to EMCID

    Can you believe this horse hockey crap that chris brown and frank the bank are spilling out on the airwaves of nausea and the twilight zone. I would like to know what investor is crazy enough to invest in a white elephant.

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    Feds looking into amusement park project | News - Home

    Won't all this have the investors running!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soapboxmom View Post
    Gee, Donny your 2011 chapter 7 bankruptcy still in progress lists only $1,000.00 total for the entire family's jewelery. We have all seen just how luxurious a lifestyle you and the wifey have been living over the years. She has been showered with jewelery and very expensive and trendy clothing. Your creditors and the Department of Justice should be demanding answers!
    Leasing the clothes and jewelry?.......not likely

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    Just how many more loads of dung will be dropped on this project? Was it the original owners intent to get enough dung dumped on the low-lying areas of this property to get it out of the flood plain? If so, the mountain depicted in Chris Brown's drawings has already been built.

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    Frank McCrady should be a stand up comic. That moron is rambling on about how he is confident and is placing his faith and trust in his consultants??? If that brainless idiot is listening to Don Holbrook, he is listening to a man desperate to rake the potential millions he built into these unconscionable project contracts and not someone with any integrity or objectivity. Haven't Holbrook's lawsuits and vicious attacks on taxpayers, journalists, bloggers and media outlets exposed him for the lying buffoon he really is???
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    If Holbrook, who was the vice president of a fundraising firm and was hired to secure investors for Earthquest (in fact bringing in his own people for the charity and project,) can't raise a paltry $7,000.00 for a small project, what hope is there for funding Earthquest???

    Chris Brown and EMCID have no experience in financing or I would imagine even costing out large projects like this proposed theme park. I have no doubt they are still listening to their dubious consultant Don Holbrook, whose continued begging on Twitter hasn't gotten him a dime in weeks!

    Another failed Holbrook project that he will never admit to.
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    Grand Texas Theme Park coming to East Mont. Co.? Two theme Parks?......Too bad Holbrook doesn't have his hands in this pie.
    This project sounds a little more do-able than EarthQuest. Check out the article in the Kingwood Observer. Unfortunately for the citizens of East Mont. Co., a theme park could have been started 2 yrs. ago, if not for a few greedy individuals. Imagine that, a theme park finished for $150-$180 million, not STARTED, as it should have been in the first place.
    Get a load of what's said near the end of the article, when Frank's talking about Contour. It doesn't say whether or not this is quoted by him or not, but this is what's written.....as they (meaning Contour), continue to progress, this is at no cost to EMCID. NO COST TO EMCID? What did it cost them in the first place? Enough of the perfume-spraying, Frank, just come out and say it. "I screwed up, call me Froggy, and I promise it WON'T cost the TAXPAYERS another dime!!!!"


    Fat chance on FranktheBank saying THAT

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    Quote Originally Posted by pantherdadX2 View Post
    Grand Texas Theme Park coming to East Mont. Co.? Two theme Parks?......Too bad Holbrook doesn't have his hands in this pie.
    This project sounds a little more do-able than EarthQuest. Check out the article in the Kingwood Observer. Unfortunately for the citizens of East Mont. Co., a theme park could have been started 2 yrs. ago, if not for a few greedy individuals. Imagine that, a theme park finished for $150-$180 million, not STARTED, as it should have been in the first place.
    Get a load of what's said near the end of the article, when Frank's talking about Contour. It doesn't say whether or not this is quoted by him or not, but this is what's written.....as they (meaning Contour), continue to progress, this is at no cost to EMCID. NO COST TO EMCID? What did it cost them in the first place? Enough of the perfume-spraying, Frank, just come out and say it. "I screwed up, call me Froggy, and I promise it WON'T cost the TAXPAYERS another dime!!!!"


    Fat chance on FranktheBank saying THAT
    Two theme parks for East Montgomery County?EMCID talks with developers for a second theme park to compliment the evolving EarthQuest - Your Houston News: Atascocita News

    The Grand Texas Park is perfect for the Houston area. With that price tag it will be completed and could be sustained by local foot traffic alone. Earthquest is a behemoth with a hefty price tag and millions of dollars wasted already. Earthquest developers have bandied about various ridiculous figures, but one of them was 3 million visitors a year vs. Grand's 650,000. For a $600,000,000.00, or much more as it is likely they have underestimated the final construction cost, they will have a park that is impossible to keep solvent without that tremendous amount of foot traffic. Don Holbrook painted it as an international destination theme park, but I seriously doubt they will have the budget to promote it on that scale and it will end up imploding. When Earthquest implodes (assuming they can find investors for that pipe dream in the first place,) the taxpayers will once again be stick with a horrendous mess to deal with.

    Let's hope Grand Texas gets the investor dollars!!!
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    I'm wondering what county this third site is located in. I'd hate to see a park built and not in EMC after all the taxpayers have been through there. If there was ever a time for Froggy to jump and dip into his personal portfolio
    and treat someone (the Grand Texas Theme Park group) to Chez Nous in order to save face, now would be it.

    .....Fat chance on FranktheBank DOING that

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    Expertise in managing talented teams and very exceptional professionals as well as bottom line responsibility for budgets and attaining corporate goals, milestones and promoting a productive work environment within the values and mission of my employers.

    Professional consulting practice consists of private sector and public sector clients. On the private sector side it assisted businesses in need of capitalization for their operations and/or those in search of a new location for relocation and/or expansion for new business opportunities and market expansion for business development. Pointing out the most advantageous business climate and location and negotiation of public incentives and inducements that lower the upfront costs for the client thus lowering market entry risks.

    Also public sector clients to recommend the creation of incentive and capitalization strategies and tools that will increase their ability to attract investment into their locales. Our focus is on deals that create quality jobs, significant investment and improve the quality of life for residents of our community clients. Typically this helps the community's economic development organization diversify their economy and improve their outcomes to their communities. Assisted in creating conceptual catalyst projects that can achieve their economic development expectations and design the business case to attract such opportunities to our client communities. We can assist EDO's in vetting developers, operators and investors in such concepts. Specialized in destination tourism projects that create branding value, additional jobs & tax base and greater economic impact than many more traditional economic development projects.

    Specialties: Site Location Analysis, Business capitalization, Hybrid capitalization using special economic development tools, public policy such as incentive strategies tied to ROI, deal negotiations for public incentives and investment inducements




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    Blue Green Resorts BXG

    August 2012 – Present (6 months)Las Vegas, Nevada AreaResponsible for creating an economic desire to purchase the company's time share product of flexible vacation ownership. This position requires two 60 minute presentations each day in front of a mixed audience of solicited attendees and converting their built in resistance to acting today into a sense of urgency and desire to make a choice to do so now.




    Board of Director

    CDC Small Business Finance

    March 2007 – Present (5 years 11 months)CDC Small Business is the largest SBA Certified Lending Organization in the USA, they serve the California, Nevada and Arizona markets. CDC has over $1B in capitalization and loans nearly $300M per year to economic development based business needs.

    Keynote Speaker, Economist, Author, CEcD

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    January 2007 – Present (6 years 1 month)Don speaks on the topic of the impact of globalization and how local economies can rebuild and retool themselves to better compete, survive and thrive in globally chaotic times. He discusses the perfect storm that set this in motion in simple understandable details and advocates for fearless leadership as the first line of defense and the best offense to address globalization. His approach is any city or town can become a world class locale.
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    January 1990 – December 2012 (23 years)
    Professional Economic Developer and Site Location Consultant specializing in public policy incentives to attract business. In addition I actually do turn key financing for projects that I am involved in from inception to construction through my network of non-traditional capital market sources.




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    January 2004 – October 2012 (8 years 10 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaI have been active in the volunteer leadership of the economic development industry for approximately 16 years, serving first on the Mid-American Economic Development Council, MAEDC and eventually becoming Chairman of the Board. Now I have served for four terms on the International Economic Development Council, IEDC. My greatest contribution has been to remain a neutral thought leader advocating for the needs of the practitioners. I am one of the most active writers and public speakers in the industry on leadership and business investment attraction strategies in the world. As an economist I take a critical look at how to use public-endorsed and/or backed incentives to grow local economies in smart and responsible manner, but I am definitely pro-incentives and not against their responsible use.

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    January 2010 – August 2012 (2 years 8 months)worldwideI have just released my third book in a series started prior to the Global Financial Crisis that engages the discussion of rebooting, rebuilding and renewing America to remain the most competitive economy in the world. The lighthouse of hope for those that want a better quality of life, the most competitive business climate for investment and the hub of innovation and world class quality of life.
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    January 2006 – August 2012 (6 years 8 months)Las Vegas, Nevada AreaI am the chief executive officer and primary consultant for all contractual obligations to clients and business manager of the enterprise to create business development opportunities with particular focus on public incentives negotiations and public affairs for corporate clients seeking to expand or relocate their businesses. This included site location screening and systemic site search considerations for capital investment criteria that best benefits the corporate clients.


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    2008 – July 2012 (4 years)Las Vegas, Nevada AreaI have written the first of a series of fictional history novels that are based on the Knights Templars... the series incorporates actual history but is set in modern day. It is a combination of spy, mystery, adventure and action thriller all in one. The book is now ready for publication.


    Interim President & CEO (acting on pro-bono basis currently)

    The EarthQuest Institute

    2009 – May 2012 (3 years)East Montgomery County TexasI helped to found and organize the non-profite and developed the mission and objectives. I later negotiated for their acquisition of their future site for the construction of their public demonstration facility and showcase pavilion for green strategies and products that will raise consumer awareness. Currently EQI is not soliciting funds as they are awaiting the announcement of the new theme park developer by EMCID and the expected official business relationship that EQI desires to have with the new developer. At that time I expect the new board will hire a new President/CEO for renewed and sustained operations going forward. I am still a major supporter of this concept and believe in it's purpose greatly!


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    EMCID

    October 2006 – May 2012 (5 years 8 months)East Montgomery County TexasI have been a working project director under a consulting agreement to help create EMCID as the largest central time zone tourism destination in the US. It is anchored by the EarthQuest Theme Park & Resort, but we have expanded the concept to focus on ancillary and stand alone additional destination tourism concepts and opportunities to build the district's over-all tourism capacity even greater.


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    The Vercitas Group

    January 2007 – January 2012 (5 years 1 month)Las Vegas, NVVercitas is a consulting firm that specializes in economic development services for community based economic development organizations. In addition, they provide site location and business capitalization services which include negotiation of incentives and investment inducements that lower front end business investment costs for projects. I am the only partner in the firm and I utilize world-class associates in response to our clients needs, such as economists, subject matter experts, investment bankers, creative venue and thematic attraction design & costing consultants, land use & planning experts, tourism experts, market feasibility and others depending on the unique needs of our client base. It is important to note that Vercitas and Economic Developer are both entities that are controlled by Don A. Holbrook and collaboratively supported each other.

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    Professional Economic Development Organizations

    January 1990 – February 2006 (16 years 2 months)Don worked in several economic development non-profit organizations as the chief executive officer. His tenure included Port Authority's, County wide EDC's and local Muncipal EDC's. His breath of experience covers most economic development agency types. He served on MAEDC Board of Directors and as their Chairman in 1996.
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      Don is an innovative economic developer and a thoughtful writer and presenter on the tends in the field of economic development. Don has been at the forefront in the use of technology in the profession and is now cutting new ground in the area of...View
    Holbrook's explanation of how he sells timeshares (the unexploded Pinto salesman's approach) is quite telling. What a perfect fit for a dishonest, dirtbag. Does he throw in a few lawsuit threats for good measure???

    When party boy Holbrook received his Fellow Member award, he was accompanied to that party by his drinking buddies from the East Montgomery County Improvement District (EMCID). Holbrook had his hand in every pie with that group while consulting on that Earthquest international destination theme park fiasco. The real question is did the taxpayers get to fund the trip to that award ceremony???

    Since he dropped out of the IEDC (International Economic Development Council), he is no longer a Fellow Member and can quite bragging about that phony designation he got whilst dishonestly pimping the Earthquest project years ago. The IEDc says, "A Fellow holds the classification as long as membership in the Council is maintained." I am sure that was good riddance for the IEDC!!!
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    Holbrook is spending like he is quite successful according to his bankruptcy.

    Holbrook Bankruptcy Motion to Reinstate Stay.pdf

    Holbrook Bankruptcy Order.pdf

    Holbrook Monthly Operating Report.pdf
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    After reading the above reports, how does this guy own all that KY properties. His monthly statement does not make sense. If the bankruptcy judge can not see that then it needs to be replace. My god what a scammimg crook holbrook is.

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    Idoux resigns from EMCID board - Monday, January 14, 2013 - Copyright 2007 Ourtribune.com
    McCrady and staff operations are often without proper oversight from elected board members, which has led to public board mistrust after a series of news reports first reported by The Tribune documented hundreds of thousands of dollars in board, staff and district consultant expenses, Idoux claims.....

    Idoux claims she has been adamant in demands for increased transparency.

    But, “It just seems like were not changing,” she said.

    Some board members are not given equal information regarding expenses and existing ‘understood’ procedures, according to her.

    “I believe steps were taken that deliberately kept the new people in the dark,” Idoux said.
    This is a scathing commentary on the antics of Frank McCrady. Rumor has it Holbrook was in town recently and may still be trying to get more of the pie.
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    Don Holbrook bragged in May 2012 just before his attorney wench made the disastrous third-party suit filing:
    The only true course someone has that has been targeted by such a person or group of people is to hire a very good attorney and litigate those that participated in damaging you.
    Don Holbrook's legal battle with the city of Huber Heights is heating up and his attorney wench is proving once again just how foolish she is. Filing the losing third-party suit that resulted in her having to dismiss most of the parties they sued before they could even answer (as it was obvious the judge was going to do it for her and did for the remaining defendants) was just her first foible of many.

    Now, his attorney wench is dragging out discovery. He was served the initial request in April 2012 and she responded in June 2012. There is now a Motion to Compel Discovery Directed to Defendant by Plaintiff and Request for Dismissal. Lots of juicy details Holbrook would never have wanted to be made public are now in the filings and will be publicly available for the world to see. We journalists have contacted many of his former clients and now have a list of all the rest of his recent ones who have been hit up for a ridiculous $395.00 an hour.

    Page 12 is the piece de resistance. Scammer boy has yet to name a single expert witness. Since he left or was forced out of the IEDC, I suspect anyone there who was on the board and heard from me has no interest in getting tangled up with Holbrook in any fashion.

    His obscene Earthquest deal is also covered in the latest filing on page 16:
    EarthQuest- Site Location analysis, business incentive model to investor business case, design economic zone, solicitation support of investor/developer discussions, SWOT analysis of mitigation of bankruptcy of Developer, Strategy for movement to new developer and revised public-private partnership agreement.

    1. $1,052,000.00 plus remainder upon land purchase of $810,000 today.
    2. On-going consultation $200,000 through June 1, 2012
    The authorities need to step in and stop this madness! Earthquest is nothing but Holbrook's personal pocketbook.

    Motion to Compel Discovery Directed to Defendant by Plaintiff and Request for Dismissal.pdf
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    Holbrook whines:
    Furthermore, these folks have attacked me at my professional industry level by emailing my colleagues over a 100 of them about their meritless claims. These folks have emailed my professional membership in my social circles and attacked my reputation asking for me to written up on ethics violations and/or removed from the professional and civic membership.
    Absolutely! The Templars' discussion group on Linkedin sent him packing. He is off of the IEDC board as of October 2012. He is no longer a member of the IEDC and his Fellow Member designation is null and void as a result. I will keep warning and informing anyone and everyone that needs the facts about this litigious clown! I am getting great things accomplished!
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    From the latest court filing:
    Hard Rock Theme park Analysis- Site Location Incentive Negotiations, Strategy Development and incentive Modeling $90,000.00, plus a performance bonus of 5% of the gross value of the incentives utilized cumulatively by a public-private development agreement once it is executed.
    Now, we know that Holbrook was intimately involved in that Hard Rock Park colossal disaster.

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-alle...html#post36380

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-alle...html#post36404

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-alle...html#post36375

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-alle...html#post19966

    So, we know all about the Holbrook touch!!!
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    Court doc says under paid work:
    Livingston Parrish- (Baker Leisure Group)
    Holbrook will facilitate the appropriate public investment jurisdictions and create the model public investment portfolio in conjunction with BLG Final Report to LEDC. Holbrook will find acceptable new suitable site(s) in the Livingston parish (target area for consideration) for meeting the targeted recommendations as specified in the Final BLG report. Holbrook will coordinate all work in conjunction with client and any other contractors as directed by the Client. The project shall remain confidential. $30,000.00 50% upon execution of contract/ 50% upon submittal of final report.
    Holbrook listed this simple report in his list of 100s of successful projects in one of his angry rants quoted below. That fraud Holbrook tried to sell these folks a destination theme park with Chris Brown of Contour entertainment and they ran him out of town with record speed. He had a very limited role in a project well underway when he swooped in and finished without any involvement on his part whatsoever. Bass Pro Shops hardly needed his help to expand across the country and come to Livingston Parrish. Holbrook is a total frost. Earthquest has no chance judging from his previous circus side shows that went nowhere!

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-alle...html#post19651

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-alle...html#post24076

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/don-allen-holbrook-iedc-international-economic-development-council-rogue-member-1240/index19.html#post24150


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    Quote Originally Posted by Soapboxmom View Post
    Holbrook whines:

    Absolutely! The Templars' discussion group on Linkedin sent him packing. He is off of the IEDC board as of October 2012. He is no longer a member of the IEDC and his Fellow Member designation is null and void as a result. I will keep warning and informing anyone and everyone that needs the facts about this litigious clown! I am getting great things accomplished!
    Atta girl !!!! .......Hold it a sec, gotta finish my prayer......and Lord, thank you for the opportunity to release my brain from the insanity of lutes thread and return to normalcy on SBMs thread. AMEN

    Boy, I bet he gives his psychiatrist fits. On the bright side, whoever it is must make a chunk of money in overtime alone.

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