This one wasn't worth picking up when we noticed it in the newspaper but now more important media are starting to broadcast this bit of hype from City Hall for a troubled project that's taking cash away from the Zoo. Take a look: Downtown hotel plan already paying off, 4 new conventions coming to KC
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Quilting convention... Is this a SNL bit?
ReplyDeleteYes and three of those conventions go to a different town each year in fact all four will so more bullshit from city hall.
ReplyDeleteI regret voting for Shields, but when Glover took it up the ass to vote for this hotel I voted for Shields. Now it does not even look like she is going to stop it. Nothing has been signed yet.
ReplyDeleteOne of the conventions is a national gathering of laboratory animal professionals. A pow-wow for rat and monkey torturers, in other words. People who do this stuff as children grow up into Jeffrey Dahmers. Is Kansas City so lacking in skeezy people that we need to import them by the thousands?
ReplyDeleteThis is why this should of never come to a vote in Clay Co.
ReplyDeleteMoney that Clay Co. voters approved for the ZOO is being misspent and being use for a slush fund. Money from Clay Co. could of been better used for our roads & bridges.
This is a vote that Clay Co. should take back.
If there's a party going on, COUNT on TKC to poop it. Natch. Whilst.
ReplyDeleteUsing zoo money to entertain and shelter animal torturers? Back to SNL: "Bad Theater."
ReplyDeleteI am with 8:10
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed that Shields has not declared war on that hotel.
Still, Glover's support of that rip-off told me that he had been around too long.
Only one with half a business brain will tell you that conventions are a fast dying event. They cost to much to put on and they seldom bring anywhere close to the money in that the politicians would like you to think they are.
ReplyDeleteIf the hotel was a good business deal, the operators would not have needed a public subsidy to finance it. The private capital markets would have lined up to fund a profitable proposal.
ReplyDeleteWhat are we going to have to do for the other hotels that will lose business with yet another competitor in town? So we TIF'd the existing hotels and now we are bringing in a competitor (with subsidies) to crush them. Aren't we smart?
ReplyDeleteThis is like the blarney surrounding the trolley... billions of dollars of development suddenly appear as a result of the tracks... it's just that blarney... and the tax-break STAR just prints what they're told.
ReplyDeleteI uh would like a Tif because uh I might do business in Los Angeles or Bagdad otherwise. And I cannot otherwise afford to do business here. Yeah. That's it. I just need a little help to develop your city. Yeah.
ReplyDeleteWill the TOY TRAIN stop there?
ReplyDeleteOMG, that term is so funny.
Even better than LIBTARD or the Cum Guy.
I come here for the cutting edge originality.
We used to call this counting your chickens before they are hatched.
ReplyDeleteThey booked their conventions because KCMO is planning to build a new convention hotel??? Shame on the media for giving this press release any coverage. It is an insult to the taxpayers’ intelligent level.
ReplyDeleteAnyone dumb enough to believe these conventions booked KC because of the promise of a hotel THAT ISN'T EVEN FULLY APPROVED OR FUNDED YET deserves to screwing that KCMO is giving them.
ReplyDeleteThe only hope in this debacle is Clay County suing to stop the use of zoological tax funds, as they were dedicated use when passed. That wrinkle in the financing would hopefully slow down the financing and delay the bond sale.
Downtown hotel plan already paying off, 4 new conventions coming to KC
ReplyDeleteYup, here they go again. Hoping the greater fool theory still has it's grip on whatever fools are left.
And just wait until all those Milanese businessmen start booking their conventions in KC after LIl' Cindy's Italian Va-kay earlier this year... that's when KC will really start raking in the profits!
ReplyDeleteOf course the hotel is already fully booked. After all, the streetcar is at breakeven. Kansas City is truly an economic miracle. Coming next: Kansas City water will be turned into wine and visions of the Madonna will appear on city hall.
ReplyDelete"now more important media are starting to broadcast this"
ReplyDeletesaid the nigger with one tenth the traffic of The Star and zero tenths of its revenue.
The problem with these pet projects is the mayor is long gone by the time tax payers want to tar and feather him.
ReplyDeleteAnything that improves KC gets flushed. Man, Rita must be real pissed at somebody at 12th & Oak. That teat must have been cut off too soon.
ReplyDeleteStupor Dave, urban planner, and world economist weighs in from the maintenance shack at a golf course after mowing the 16th tee box.
ReplyDeleteHow about booking conventions into the hotels that are paying the C/T taxes? 800 rooms is not enough for a real difference, why not 1200 rooms?
ReplyDeletethe Mayor and city manager need to be watched that they don't use C/T tax money to pay to a underperforming hotel catering business
Streetcar is already past break even. Sorry, shill, sucks to be dead wrong I guess. Maybe you should form your opinions after you get some facts next time instead of the other way around...
ReplyDeleteOf course it is, and the hotel is already full. That stuff you're smoking must be pretty powerful. Have you seen the image of the Blessed Virgin on city hall as well?
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