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November 1, 2009 in City
Burning dollars, not rubber
Wouldn’t it be great to have your own time machine and be able to prevent some of our biggest blunders from happening?
For example, I’d set my Wayback Machine to April 2008.
Then I’d travel back and lock Todd Mielke and Mark Richard in a Spokane County Courthouse broom closet.
Hopefully that would keep these county commissioner nincompoops from blowing $4.5 million on an IDIOTIC RACETRACK!!!
Hmm. Now what do we call that boondoggle out in Airway Heights?
Oh, yeah. I remember.
Spokane Wasteway Park.
You know, I’m still confounded at why these two twits got the county involved in …
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Gwen Peterson on November 01 at 8:04 a.m.
We have publicly-funded facilities for just about every form of recreation known to man. Why is the racetrack unacceptable to Mr. Clark, yet we never hear about how Bobby Brett stifles any attempt to bring AAA baseball back to Spokane. We have public horse venues, coliseums, stadiums, ball fields galore, huge plots of developed and undeveloped land set aside for recreation.
Doug Clark, so why are you singling out the racetrack? $4.5 million from a county budget of hundreds of millions isn't out of whack. You're out of whack and so might be the people you work for who not long ago took the City of Spokane down for about $30 million. And the city owns none of that parking garage or shopping mall now. At least Todd and Mark didn't get bamboozled by the Cowles.
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