Any time the “revenue” is the thing lauded first for an occasion I immediately cross that one off my list. The idea that everything has to be looked at from the perspective of monetary gain is a major turn off.
It seems the mayor has drunk the koolaid Obama has offered.
There must be some backstory to this. Why exactly is he not allowing tours of the boats? Are they owned by the wrong people, does he claim it costs too much in police and rescue to guard them (hard to justify that since they will need police to keep people away)?
What possible reason can there be for NOT wanting them?
The lacrosse championships acutally took place at Gillete Stadium, about 35 miles southwest of Boston. Gillete is where the Patriots play, and is owned by Bob Kraft. For all Bostonians, Kraft is the local guy who originally tried to build a stadium in downtown Boston. He was totally rebuffed by the buffoonish mayor, Tom Menino and all the hacks in the State House, especially from Southie. They seemed to have a real problem with a very wealthy and Jewish owner moving into the territory. It got so bad the now disgraced, disbarred form speaker Tom Finneran made it a personal grudge match.
Kraft gets the last laugh, he’s got hotels, movie theaters, shopping centers, including Bass Pro Shops, making Patriot Place a year round destination. And the city of Boston? They are hemorrhaging jobs, soaking what little tourists they have left, and are about to elect the most incompetent and incomprehensible mayor in history.
Of course the idiotic voters of this state keep electing jerks like Mumbles Menino, Deval Patrick, Kennedy, Kerry, Franks, etc. They have only themselves to blame. There is a solid core of about 33% who have reasonable conservative views in line with American values, but the rest are either Moonbats or useful idiot moderates.