There's no accounting for taste and tax subsidy in this blame game story where taxpayers (once again) are left to pick up the tab after a highly subsidized biz goes bust: Wyandotte County commissioners seek answers after loss of $2.8 million from failed barbeque restaurant
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It's definitely obvious that these corporate types at Red and Schuessler Creative don't understand that when people want to go out for BBQ, they want to eat the BBQ and could care less about misc million dollar decorations in the BBQ joint.
ReplyDeleteThe "answers" the commissioners are looking for are really pretty much common sense ideas that most people figure out every day.
ReplyDeleteDon't use taxpayer money to subsidize anyone with little more than a pulse and who tells you how their "project" will change the face of civilization as we know it and bring your city billions of dollars, but that they don't have any money of their own so they need to dip big time into the public till.
How's the new downtown convention hotel coming?
why the fuck do taxpayers have to finance barbecue joints in an area where there are HUNDREDS of them to choose from, and most of them have no problem making a profit without government support?
ReplyDeleteSounds like it was a very private auction going on and certain people got awesome deals on those bikes and memorabilia.
ReplyDeleteThe taxpayer got shafted in the end. Why would Wyandotte county loan them that much money to begin with. Someone know someone on the board that's how. Crooks.
And most KCK's fire stations need repair, along with other infrastructure in the east Dotte.
ReplyDeleteMay be some "backfire" alright, because statute of limitations ain't expired on this. "Auction" my arse, Bach and Higgenbottham and others may be compelled to 'splain to the federal court trustees about "announcements made to those who could actually make the buys on the items ..."(sic) as heard on news reports last night.
I don't give a shit if you open a BBQ in Times Square surely these politicians can grasp how many years it would take for a damn BBQ to even net 2.8 million? What the fuck were these clowns smoking?
ReplyDeleteFrom day one, the Legends was simply too far away from Kansas City. Fuck, anyone could see what was going to happen "out there". Nothing survived long at all and what did had to be so heavily subsidized as to make it comical. What a giant fucking Kansas City and investors took on this joke....
ReplyDeleteThat's a shame. I actually liked their burnt ends there. Nice place. But when I went there I did come away thinking that it was overkill from a decor standpoint for a bbq joint.
ReplyDeleteThis has scam and kickbacks written all over it. That or gross incompetence. What would anyone spend that much money to lure a BBQ chain to Kansas City, of all places? If you're a small independent restaurant owner in Wyandotte you have to be beyond pissed. You think Slap's got hundreds of thousands of dollars in memorabilia bought for them? Hell no.
ReplyDeleteOnce a year or so the Unified Crooks are asked why they spend other peoples money for their foolishness. The Legends started as a big scam and it will end that way. It made millionaires out of a few and has broken tax payers. When ordinary citizens are paying $5000 per year for property taxes on a $150,000 property and a scum bag commissioner $250 per year for a $350,000 property it's not hard to see they lie, cheat and steal. Because no one will do a damn thing about it because they destroy anyone who tries. Love how the Mayor never knows anything about anything. All of them are liars and thieves.
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