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MERRY MARRIOTT

By Terry Gray

A ground breaking recently took place for the new taxpayer owned Marriott in what would be “VIBRANT DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE”. Mayor Dave drove the bulldozer and everything.  Such forethought and planning has gone into this anchor for “VIBRANT DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE” that the ceremony took place before the needed property acquisition.  It seems that Mayor Dave and his lackeys have two messages to send through their ceremonial agenda, appeasing Marriott and showing the “girls, girls, girls” that the power of governmental condemnation is on the side of “families, families, families”. I wonder if the “girls, girls, girls” have “families, families, families”?  If you really want to draw conventions why don’t you put some of those “girls, girls, girls” to work at the Marriott?

There are about 30 hotels/motels in the Louisville area.  One of those is a Marriott and, I’m only guessing, some others are Marriott affiliates.  Five nice hotels/motels are in “VIBRANT DOWNTOWN”.  That’s a lot of rooms for a dying downtown.  Marriott will be a nice bandage for what ails a Demon-cratic controlled metro government but where is the medicine?

We taxpayers will hold a $46.5 million bond on the hotel and will fund a $1 million walkway from the Marriott to the Galt House.  Why?  Will visitors be needing a quick egress from the Marriott to the Galt House?  Maybe it’s the other way around.  Maybe the faithful, long standing Galt House will serve as a lobby for the Marriott.  Who knows what these yahoos are thinking?

I will give them this however, a $110 million Marriott, partially taxpayer funded, but paying taxes, will be more useful, more attractive, and by far easier on the citizens’ pockets than a $106 million light rail system that is totally taxpayer funded and becomes a continuous drain on the taxpayers.  No, I’m not making some esoteric comparison.  They both, as well as every other idea that our brave leaders birth, are part of the “NEW VIBRANT DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE”.

Mayor Dave, I was wondering if there are any out-of-work, QUALIFIED bulldozer operators in the area that would have been happy to knock down that shack for a few bucks?  It would have been a nice gesture and great public relations to have included a “Peasant Joe” taxpayer in your ceremony.  After all, we peasants own most of it.

Terry Gray

Rabid Peasant

(Editor’s note:  Perhaps we common folk could find ways to encourage the owners of the Marriott and the elected officials who vote for these boondoggles to regain their self-esteem and their sense of shame at robbing the taxpayers. Boycotting the recipients of corporate welfare and voting the rascals out come to mind.) 

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