‘Real Change’ a waste

Sun., Oct. 12, 2014

Fact: The city of Spokane and Downtown Spokane Partnership spent $25,000 on publicity for their anti-panhandling crusade called “Real Change” that was launched in August. Apparently $20,000 was funded by the city. In other words, taxpayer dollars.

Fact: The “Real Change” campaign, to date, has raised a whopping $212.

What a waste of money, time and effort to unfairly paint all panhandlers as lazy, low-life addicts. I think our taxpayer dollars could have been better spent on actually providing homes for the homeless. What do you think?

Shame on our elected officials, city staff and the DSP for authorizing and spending these funds in this mean-spirited and worthless manner.

Joan Medina

Spokane

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