Posted on 07/13/2010 5:01:22 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
As home to pop legend Michael Jackson, Neverland Ranch housed a working locomotive, a Ferris wheel and other amusement park rides, a 10,000-volume library and a zoo.
But could the opulent Santa Barbara County estate become home to California's newest state park?
A resolution is in the works to order state parks officials to study converting the roughly 2,600-acre property into a state park. The state NAACP is backing the idea, and a lawmaker has signaled he is on board to carry the legislation.
"I think Michael's history is world history and I think it would become the No. 1 attraction for the state parks if we could pull it off," said state NAACP President Alice Huffman, who also serves on the state Parks Commission.
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Gotta love the NAALCP: racism in tea parties, Arizona's immigration law, MJ State Park, desert is not a right!
I started to imagine the rides at that park, and quickly shifted to another line of thought.
NAMBLA should join them. Together they could make it a national monument.
Would make a great place for NAMBLA conventions.
Thankfully my coffee cup was not quite to my lips when I read your post! LOL
Will they be removing the child seats from the tunnel of love ride?
They are missing the obvious....privately owned and operated. I grant you that there would be plenty of people who would pay money to visit and overnight at Graceland, but government would still find a way to loose money on the deal. The state of NY has a lock on OT betting which has a controlled outcome and a way to run it with minimal overhead, yet the agency is deeply in debt and no longer paying its bills.
Giving a private company tax breaks to make the property purchase and needed renovations happen quickly would soon give the state a nice revenue stream from taxes on admission and concessions. But I doubt that they will go that route.
The difference between the Kingand the King of Pop:
Graceland became a legendary attraction without the assistance of government aid, and continues so, 30 years later.
The NAACP wants the people of California to maintain Neverland so it doesn’t matter whether people go or not.
Museums come and go. The Roy Rogers museum is dissolved largely because of death taxes. The Dick Tracy museum closed due to lack of interest (Chester Gould was ultimately succeeded by a liberal writer). A state subsidized museum will never go away.
Oh, come on. Are they kidding us?
The one that should happen to that park is to condemn it, tear it down and build a state prison on the land !
Wow, that will save the Jackson’s a whole lotta cash.
I just can’t imagine a State park dedicated to a pedophile.
I thought Jackson was white?
“Thankfully my coffee cup was not quite to my lips when I read your post! LOL”
Same here....will wonders never cease! LOL!
Wow these folks are dumb.
FIGURES
He was proof that only in America could a poor black boy become a rich white woman.
Wow, even child molesters get honored as long as they got the complexion for the protection. If Michael Jackson had been a mestizo Hispanic, I don’t believe the NAACP would be doing what they’re doing now.
“I thought Jackson was white?”
He was getting close to pulling off that ruse...until his nose fell off.
How about transforming it into a sewage treatment facility.
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