Posted on 12/19/2004 6:00:38 AM PST by bikepacker67
After 33 years of waiting, Washington had the chance to get a major league baseball team. And after months of negotiations, we had a deal to make it happen. And yet, at the last minute, Chairman Linda Cropp chose to torpedo this deal – even though she herself was one of the people who negotiated it.
Enough is enough. It is time to drop Cropp. We are waging a campaign to Recall Linda Cropp, and remove her from office. Please show your support by using the form below to send an email to Chairman Cropp. This is about more than baseball. These antics have once again made Washington, DC the laughingstock of the nation.
Please send an email to Chairman Cropp today, and tell your friends to do the same. Tell her to hold up her end of the bargain, and support the deal to bring back baseball. And tell her if she doesn’t, you will support this Recall – and work to drop Cropp.
| Dear Chairman Cropp: After 33 years of waiting, Washington has the chance to get a major league baseball team. And yet, you have chosen to torpedo this deal at the last minute – even though you helped to negotiate it. As a result, we are on the verge of losing this opportunity, and Washington DC is once again viewed as the laughingstock of the nation. Chairman Cropp, I am asking you to reconsider. Time is short, but you can still change your position and save this deal. If you do not do this, I pledge to work for and support any recall efforts to remove you from office. And I will get my friends and neighbors to do the same. Respectfully yours, (Your Name Will Be Inserted Here) |
The problem with this is that the people who are the most angry at Cropp for costing DC its team and again making DC an object of ridicule don't live in DC. I work in DC, care deeply about the city, and would be a fan and supporter of the Nationals, but Linda Cropp doesn't give a damn about what some resident of Annapolis thinks about her.
Can't do it. I'm inalterably opposed to spending public funds for sports facilities which will be used by professional teams.
Now that the area in SE (that's Southeast Washington, for those of you in Rio Linda) that was scheduled for a Supreme Court takings case will not develop for another 20 years.
Having lived in another section of DC where development overtures started and then vanished for 15 years only to have a large convention center appear, when a territory is "in paly", all other development, sensibly, doesn't happen.
Sorry, SE.
In Palestine? Might as well be.
What's conservative about using taxpayer money to build a facility for a private business?
Let's see..the "good" (sic) people of DC elect disgraced felon, coke-head, womanizing no good former mayorMarion Barry to the DC city council, and you're pissed because this lady refuses to spend public $$$$ on a baseball stadium?....They got the government they voted for, and so so richly deserve..
Linda Cropp was just voting her constituents position. Recall her and she'll be replaced with someone who will vote the same way. This vote was taken after three new members were elected to the council but before they've taken office. Public sentiment is against public funding of a replacement stadium.
What's so conservative about using hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize MLB?
I would be happy that somebody had the impulse to actually think of the taxpayers, for once.
Shh. Big money interests like it, so it must be conservative. Don't you see?
Just a question. How does DC elect Council members? Is it at large or do they have districts? If it is the latter, the whole city cannot be blamed for the most recent resurrection of Marion Barry.
The 8 wards have generally different characters: Ward 1, Adams-Morgan, big old houses, trendy restaurants, some renovation areas. Ward 2: Downtown, Georgetown, Dupont Circle, the city's cash cow. Ward 3: White, liberal, high-income residential. Ward 4: Same as ward 3, sort of, but mostly black. (If you don't know what "high yellow" is, drive through there.) Ward 5: Blue collar, black. Ward 6: Capitol hill mostly white, yuppie. Ward 7 Middle class black. Same house in Ward 3 goes for double or triple, and there are a lot similar, though not at the high-end. Ward 8: Marion Berry's territory. Mostly black, but not as homogeneous as one would think. Anacostia. The basket case.
Er, if you're waging a campaign to recall someone because she wanted to cut spending of taxpayer dollars and transfer more functions from government to the private economy, you'll have better luck on Democratic Underground. Play your cards right and you might even make the DUFunnies!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.