Will you clowns get over the ballpark scam?

So, as next year rolls around, will the democratian keep sniveling about the ballpark deal Hillsboro put together to get the Yakima Millionaires?

At the end of the day, those Hicks in Hillsboro are getting 50% more stadium for 10 million or so less... and no one in the entire county is getting scammed to pay for a facility they will never go to just because they go to a movie... or play golf... or a fair... PARTICULARLY when, as the ballpark scammers here set up, those ACTUALLY ATTENDING THE GAME WOULD PAY LESS FOR THE BALLPARK THEN SOMEONE GOING TO A MOVIE.

Ron Arp, who, unfortunately, serves on the school board of the district by kids no longer attend (Hockinson) showed his political stupidity with THIS nonsense:

The political uncertainty was a surprise, said Vancouver resident Ron Arp, who served as a spokesman for Short Season LLC, the company that owns the Bears.

"The team had done its homework for six months before ever going public," Arp said. The proposal had widespread support from the business community, but the proposed tax certainly had critics. Residents of the west Vancouver neighborhood near the Clark College ball fields where the stadium would have been built were critical, too.

(If he's a "Vancouver resident," then how can he be on the Hockinson school board?)

That Arp believes "the team did their homework," shows a basic level of political incompetence that's inexplicable.

The fatal flaw of this scam is that that they wanted to jack us with a tax to support millionaires....without asking us.... and right after the clowns running Vancouver had shut down a fire station for budgetary reasons.  So... what homework, exactly, is it they actually did?

"I think they are seeing the true multiple use and the value of the facility," Arp said of Hillsboro leaders. "I think they see that and recognize it. That's the risk that the city of Hillsboro was willing to take, and it certainly wasn't a risk that the city or the county or Clark College were willing to take here."

First, with a much cheaper facility, there is a much smaller likelihood of default.  Second, they didn't stupidly try and shaft everyone with a bizarre ticket tax for events completely unrelated to a ballpark, and third, those actually USING this stadium will actually PAY for the stadium.

What a series of bizarre concepts!  WHY couldn't they have done that HERE?

Who knows.  Who cares.  The thing is that IF they "had done their homework," they should have known that without the support of the PEOPLE... none of the rest of this scam mattered.
Those who would make money off this ripoff would naturally support it.  It's no different then many of those same clowns supporting the CRC:  THEY aren't going to have to pay for it... so why NOT support it?

But oddly, those shilling for this rip off didn't face a tax for it, and NONE of them volunteered THEIR products or services to be scammed with a tax to pay for this.  They even went so far as to make up absurd economic impact statements that bore as much resemblance to reality as Star Wars.

I must have missed the newspaper editorial where they came out and said, "oh, yeah, by the way?  To set the example, we'll lead the way by paying the 5% tax on our newspaper since we're going to make advertising bank off this scam."

Of course, the rag flipped from their righteous indignation when there was a small movement afoot to move the Portland Beavers Triple-A team over here and this same newspaper that had bent over for the Yakima Millionaires told us:

But back to luring the baseball team over to this side of the river. That would require a stadium with at least 8,000 seats, which would cost about $40 million. As we’ve editorialized before, there appears to be no way any of that money could — or even should — be provided by taxpayers. That hurdle hasn’t discouraged Leavitt, though. “There’s still a lot of interest in bringing Beavers baseball or Triple-A baseball to Clark County. Private interests are working on a financing plan,” he said. To which we respond: Great! Work away! Which is a nice way of saying don’t come begging to cash-strapped city or county governments.

So, yeah... Hillsboro will get this team... and they should have.  They had a much better deal for the people of the area, and it's hard to complain about how they went about it... unlike the slime shilling the ballpark over here.

So, get over it.. and let's move on.  You tried to screw us, and you lost.

The end.