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2006-12-18 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by jackal 2006-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, not only do they fuck up traffic, but they rape the city for money too. It DOES sound like the UN....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-18 11:59|| 2006-12-18 11:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's what they've got to look forward to. Boston 2004. I remember it well:

In addition to the events such as a planned Tall Ships visit cancelled by the city, widely announced rapid transit and road closures provoked thousands of area businesses (even outside the city) to shut down for the duration, and tourists who would normally have visited Boston at that time stayed away in droves. Furthermore, the anticipated gain in business in the restaurant trades never materialized, as security and other considerations kept the delegates to restricted venues. The Boston Globe estimated the economic loss to the city inflicted by the convention to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

The plan was to basically shut down all access to the city between 3PM and midnight. And when even the Globe admits it was a fiasco, it was a fiasco...

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-18 12:14|| 2006-12-18 12:14|| Front Page Top

#3 What a city could gain by hosting a political convention is dwarfed by what they lose.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-18 13:10|| 2006-12-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 - What the hell do they gain?

(Except the hysterical pointing and laughing by everybody else.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-18 15:27|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-18 15:27|| Front Page Top

#5 The original figure was 80 mil but since then Howlin' Howard has learned that Coloradoans expect their politicians to be graft-lite so he lowered the price.

Posted by Whereling Ebbuque4617 2006-12-18 16:12|| 2006-12-18 16:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh nooooooo... not ANOTHER convention circus. I live in Manhattan, and these things f* us 8 ways from Tuesday.
Prediction: If New York gets the convention, LOTS of NYPD will be putting in early vacation requests.
That said, they did a fantastic job for the 2004 convention, and us 'normal' New Yorkers deeply appreciate it.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-18 22:08|| 2006-12-18 22:08|| Front Page Top

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