Councilman Larry Smith is PROUD of the city hall/Columbian Puzzle Palace bail out.

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Some kool aid drinker patted the city on the back for ripping off the taxpayers for $20 million to pick up the democratian building across over by the Esther Snort Park after another letter writter correctly slammed city government for the move that wasted millions.

First, the total cost of just the building as it sat was $20 million out of the taxpayer's pocket.  So, with this phantom million dollars a year bogus savings, it will take 20 years just to break even... and you know by then that these ever-expanding bureaucrats will want an even bigger waste of taxpayer dollars to sit in.

But the important thing is that Councilman Larry Smith (Up for re-election) thinks that it was a great idea.

Of course, he also thinks loot rail and replacing the I-5 bridge is a great idea as well.

It's not.  And neither was this scam.

I wrote in the soon to be deleted by the newspaper comment:

Absolute absurdity.


There was an offer on the table that would have made the city as much as $3 million had they sold the Columbian Palace to that insurance company.... so the move has cost the people of Vancouver at least that $3 million before the first box was packed. Then, of course, there was the $17 million or so it cost to get the building... so the "savings" you people are talking about start off with a $20 million unnecessary cost.

Councilman Smith's "reasoning" shines through since he's a major supporter of the CRC and loot rail, which has wasted $140 million so far, with additional hundreds of millions to go, without turning a single shovelful of dirt.

So, no. This letter was actually a parody of an alternate universe that has nothing to do with reality. But when other people's money is getting spent, politicians frequently turn away from reality.