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

[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.