French says the meetings were not secret
French says the meetings appeared on his calendar, were discoverable through a public-record request, and were not secret.
“There were no secret meetings. … You discovered them with the public records request. They're right out there. … There's no secrets.”
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Plains. Secret meetings? There were no secret meetings. Every all the meetings were listed in my calendar. You discovered them with the public records request. They're right out there. I've been a an opponent a proponent of this uh hydrogen project for 2 and 1/2 years. There's no secrets uh about this. I've been out in the public. I've been in before boards. I've been through um even even uh meetings here at the county. So, there's no secrets. Nothing that's done under uh enclosed doors. The attacks about the data center have