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To: sauropod
There's an even bigger lie in the story: "... a municipal building where the Scouts have resided practically rent free since 1928."

As others have pointed out, the building belongs to the Scouts, who built it in 1928 at their own expense. Despite the dollar-a-year ground rent, the BSA has maintained the Beaux Arts (which, incidentally, is a legitimate architectural-historical landmark) for the last 80 years. And it was the Scouts, not the city, who undertook and paid for its $2.7 million renovation in the late '90s.

The conduct of the Philly city council, and of its proudly out-of-the-closet ringleader, is beneath despicable.

81 posted on 12/06/2007 12:52:41 PM PST by Tenniel2 (Shelob delenda est!)
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To: Tenniel2
The conduct of the Philly city council, and of its proudly out-of-the-closet ringleader, is beneath despicable.

So I have heard.

91 posted on 12/06/2007 1:19:36 PM PST by sauropod (Welcome to O'Malleyland. What's in your wallet?)
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