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An aide to Mayor William Bell, Kwani Dickerson Carson, expressed her outrage over the reporting of public spending for the DNC , calling the release of information anti-Birmingham and an attack on Bell.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- An aide to Mayor William Bell, Kwani Dickerson Carson, this afternoon expressed her outrage over the reporting of public spending for the Democratic National Convention, calling the release of information anti-Birmingham and an attack on Bell.

Carson, a community development liaison appointed by Bell, took to Facebook to attack AL.com's reporting of details regarding $275,000 approved to hire three consultants to lobby for the 2016 DNC.

"I tell you... some people are SO Anti-Birmingham and claim to be "journalists" that they would intentionally attempt to derail any strategic opportunities we have to market OUR city... the same CITY they work in, write about and HATE..," Carson wrote this afternoon.

Contracts were approved for the Podesta Group for $150,000; Partnering for Progress for $100,000; and the Covington & Burling law firm for $25,000.

The contracts had been cloaked in secrecy. Chuck Faush, Bell's chief of staff, and City Attorney Ralph Cook called for an executive session, saying the discussions in public could hurt Birmingham in its competition with other cities for the major conference.

Cook cited Alabama Code §36-25A-7(7) of Alabama Open Meetings Act which exempts discussions of "preliminary negotiations involving matters of trade or commerce in which the governmental body is in competition with private individuals or entities or other governmental bodies..."

AL.com maintains that contracts paid for with public money from a public body are public documents.

While city officials had been guarded about the contracts, AL.com obtained copies of the proposed contracts and resolutions to approve the three companies.

According to Carson, the public disclosure of the spending potentially compromised Birmingham's competitive advantage over other cities.

Birmingham is in competition with Columbus, Ohio; New York, Philadelphia and Phoenix.

While Carson wrote that the contracts were competitively bid, they were in fact, no-bid professional service contracts.

According to Carson, "there are so many FABULOUS things Mayor Bell and TEAM BELL are doing to write about...these pathetic excuses for "stories" are kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face..."

Carson previously served as spokeswoman for Bell's first successful mayoral campaign.

Carson paraphrased a quote from Alabama State University President Gwendolyn Boyd.

"New levels, same devils," Carson wrote.

During an unrelated presentation at the SCLC Women's Empowerment luncheon Monday, Boyd in her complete quote said: "We know that as we climb, there's new levels, new devils," Boyd said in her complete quote Monday. "The more they attack us, the more we know we're on the right side."

Carson on her blog mused about no longer reading news reports altogether.

"...you can't keep attacking MY BOSS and ALL OUR work and expect me to pay you for a scathing ill-written piece of slanted toilet tissue."