City of Tampa will not be reimbursed for $677,000 in RNC costs

[DonCoquixote]

http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/city-of-tampa-will-not-be-reimbursed-for-677000-in-rnc-costs

No surprise at all. Not only were GOP people known for trying to haggle hotel rates that were already low, but contractors made a point to try and discourage GOP types from actually doing things in the city. In part, that was because Ron paul was threatenign all sorts of mayhem.

[hobbit709]

1. Cheapskates all the way.

Like Henry Cisneros said when he was mayor of San Antonio and the Southern Baptists had their convention there. "They showed up with the Ten Commandments and a $10 bill and vowed to break neither one of them"

[DonCoquixote]

2. Not just that

But the fact is the city bent over backwards for them, and what we got was outright mistreatment. Since the GOP did not dare venture out of their pre programmed flight path, none of the city seemed to show on the national leve,and this is a place that hosts Super Bowls on a semi regular basis.

[Shankapotomus]

3. This should be a warning

to all future cities considering hosting the RNC.

And they call everyone else freeloaders?

[DiverDave]

4. Gee, I wonder what the gopers would say if it was

the Democratic party that did this?

Hypocrites

[zbdent]

5. If it were the Dems ...

this would be nationally screamed about in the "liberally-biased media" ...

[Tigress DEM]

6. Surprise the rethugs ran up a tab and left others to pay for it. How original - NOT.

AND they think this means they have financial skills because they can do stuff like this with no conscience and still have money in their pocket that belongs to others if they had any integrity at all.

[darkangel218]

7. It was expected that they would do that.

Assholes.

[n2doc]

8. That should come out of the pockets of the local pols who submitted the bid

They wanted it so bad, they should pay for it. Hope the voters remember next election.

[DonCoquixote]

9. sadly, I agree

even though the supporters were demmayors Iorio and Buckner. They thought it would increase buisness, but ask any resturant owner what the convention was like. People lost money bigtime, because the GOP would do thing like make a makeshift club district out of vacant buildings, so that no one would go downtown. Contractors got the money, not local citizens. Thw whole convention acted like a parasite host.

And no, the Hurricane was not the sole answer, as Tampa looked even more like a ghost town after the storm blew over.