Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Too funny. Ruth's List Florida, a pro-choice group that seeks to elect Democratic women to office, says it has paid for this billboard to greet attendees of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Billboard greets RNC guests: Welcome to Tampa, a city run by Democrats:
The billboard is at the intersection of I-275 and Armenia. Officially, city elections are nonpartisan, but Mayor Bob Buckhorn and council members are registered Democrats.
Those Tea-Publican attendees in Tampa should take the time to thank the good citizens of Tampa for building the Tampa Bay Times Forum venue for the convention with their public tax dollars -- "they built that."
A Marquette University study (pdf) found that the facility "was financed by $66.8 million in revenue bonds from the stadium authority [and] $28.8 million in revenue bonds from the state," while private sources funded roughly a third of the costs. The return of a self-defeating attack:
Republican organizers have announced "We Built It" as the theme for the second day of the party's national convention, hoping to capitalize on a controversial remark by President Obama about the role he feels government has in helping businesses succeed.
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In other words, Republicans hope to embarrass President Obama, who said public institutions and government investments help create a society in which the private sector thrives, and they'll prove their point by exclaiming "We Built It" in an arena largely financed by taxpayers.
Oops.
Sometimes the comedy writes itself.
"Mayor Bob Buckhorn and council members are registered Democrats."
And this is what the dems have accomplished for Tampa.
http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/05/16/consumer-distress-index-tampa-credability-crisis-unstable-mortgages/
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2012/08/22/tampa-metro-among-top-areas-in.html
"Oops."
"Sometimes the comedy writes itself."
It certainly does!
Posted by: NidanGoju | August 24, 2012 at 06:13 PM
As is the case with you, and SO many others of your political thought,you seem to find the meme that suits your purpose without ever asking "why?" You never dig deeper, accepting the talking points that you find.I have a problem with that.No critical thinking skills is NOT something to boast about. So here's the REAL reason behind the mess in Tampa and so many other cities that have to deal with the loons in their midst.
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/18/tampa_americas_hottest_mess/
Poke around the White House website and you can still find the hopeful “fact sheet” for a 324-mile high-speed rail line linking Miami, Orlando and Tampa.
No such system exists, of course — it was killed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. Today, there’s a 40-acre vacant lot where the Tampa terminal would have stood. And when Republicans arrive for their national convention in about a week and catch a glimpse of it, they’ll likely see a big win. In fact, the GOP will find a lot of things in Tampa that exemplify their commitment to not investing in the future.
“The trend [in Tampa] today is to say, ‘We don’t need it — no new taxes — we are not going to invest anymore,’” former Pinellas County Commissioner Ronnie Duncan recently told Tampa Bay Online. “And that message resonates from not only the constituents, but the leadership of the Republican Party.” You could fairly call the GOP vision for the country the Tampafication of America.
Tampa is a hot urban mess, equal parts Reagan ’80s and Paul Ryan 2010s. Urban renewal projects decimated the city in the ’60s, but its current persona was forged in earnest starting three decades ago, when finance and insurance companies started moving their back-office operations there, attracted by the sunshine and low-cost labor. The 1988 bestseller “Megatrends” declared Tampa “America’s next great city.” Real estate joined the service economy as a major economic pillar, and the city embarked on a building spree, sprouting large glass towers disconnected from the city itself, a development pattern that offered little incentive to invest in things like parks, transit or walkable spaces.
This left little of the quality urbanism people now pay a premium for. And while other cities made similar mistakes, Tampa has been slow to correct theirs, stymied by tight-fisted Tea Party politics. “
And here's more:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un-plot.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=Agenda%2021&st=cse
So things are not as they appear, are they? But because you, and others that have an aversion to factual info cling to the meme that suits....yeah, sometimes the comedy writes itself...only thing is, this is no laughing matter.
Posted by: Cheri | August 25, 2012 at 07:35 AM
Salon and the NYT! ROTFLMAO...... talk about lack of critical thinking.
Posted by: NidanGoju | August 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Cheri, do not feed the trolls.
Posted by: AZ BlueMeanie | August 25, 2012 at 01:40 PM