Posted on 08/30/2015 11:45:24 AM PDT by GeronL
In 2012, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave Donald Trump control of a $236 million public golf course at Ferry Point and threw in a slew of giveaways that include a low revenue-sharing plan with the city and free water. No other city golf course enjoys these perks.
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How many ways do you spell sweetheart deal?
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg apparently wasn’t satisfied with simply handing Donald Trump control over one of the most expensive public golf courses ever built in this country – the new $236 million, 18-hole Parks Department course scheduled to open next spring at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx.
Bloomberg’s aides quietly added a slew of financial giveaways in the 2012 deal with The Donald that no other city golf course concessionaire enjoys, a Daily News review of Parks Department golf contracts has found.
Those giveaways include: no concession fees for four years; then decades of extraordinarily low revenue-sharing with the city; tens of millions of gallons of free water annually; even a five-year delay for Trump to build a $10 million clubhouse, his only major capital investment in the project.
Start with the greens fees, the basic charge for a round of golf; virtually all of the city’s existing 13 public golf courses charge $48 per person during weekend peak hours, higher for non-city residents.
But the new Trump National Golf Course at Ferry Point plans to charge nearly three times as much — $125 per person.
Trump’s split of revenues with the city, however, will be far less than all other courses.
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Hasn’t Trump spoken to the fact that he’s been on the other side of the aisle? Or don’t you actually listen to what he’s been saying.
Of course, I don’t know too many people who can afford to play on private courses and most of the people I know who can afford to play on public courses have no interest in golf. Most of them play handball and softball. Most of them are couch potatoes like a lot of NYers.
We want sweet deals with other nations, not the laughingstock turd end of the deals we get from Obama.
Don’t waste time on these guys, they’re not changing anyone’s mind anyway.
trump is a Democrat’
How enlightening. So it is the Dems who want to stop the flood of foreign invaders that are streaming across our wide open borders. Dems want to restore our sovereignty. Dems are in favor of ending the anchor baby madness. Dems are the ones detailing the human toll on real Americans wreaked by the rapists and murderers, etc., for whom the US has rolled out the welcome mat.
Those Dems have really turned on their ccriminal base, haven’t they? What’s next? Dems calling for building the military back up after Obama’s decimation of same?
Since you are so smart, explain to me how “socialist fascist” is right-wing.
Moving from Marxism on the far Left to Democracies, and then on to the Libertarians on the right, how exactly do you picture uber libertarians becoming socialist fascists? Pure nonsense.
I wonder what the balance sheet looks like now vs. a year ago.
Care to tell us?
OUTSTANDING!
Seems like the PERFECT PERSON to be negotiating trade deals with China and Mexico.
Thanks for seeing the light, finally.
You know Geron, I rember you from the early days here. Please correct me if my memory is faulty, but back in the start you were very much an activist on this forum for NAFTA and immigration.
Explains your anti Trump stance very well.
If you want to call people stupid don’t say “HIGHTH.”
That’s STUPID..
Trump always said he was good at getting a good deal. He proved it here. Imagine what deal he will get from China? Russia? Mexico?
Most likely Geron and Nick have become drinking buddies meeting on a regular basis watching Trump grow in popularity.
I'd like to know more about that, how should I search to find more info on it?
Thanks!!
There is no such thing as right wing fascism or socialism. You prove your own ignorance and level of media brainwashing by your own words there.
Some cunning freepers have attempted all types of reasons to disparage Trump.
1. He is not conservative (nothing is more conservative than putting American citizen’s interests ahead of all others)
2. He was a democrat once (so was Ronald Reagan, and so was I, intelligent people are capable of evolving, non-thinking people never can evolve)
3. He is a liberal (anyone who has built more things, finished more projects on time, and have signed more paychecks on the front than 535 congress critters & the 2 in executive branch, COMBINED, I wish we had more “liberals” like that in elected positions.)
4. He will never file papers, and never file his financials because he is not worth $8 Billion as he brags (he did all of that and is actually worth $10 Billion)
5. He is a clown and will go the way of Giuliani & Herman Cain (wishful thinking by Trump haters, those 2 needed sugar daddy rich donors, Trump does not, 3 months later he is still GAINING in polls in every early state, which the others never did)
6. He dodged the draft (anyone who WANTED to become cannon fodder in the stupidest war America has ever fought, Vietnam, needs a shrink)
7. He is married 3 times (Reagan was married twice and that was long time ago when divorce was not common as now, no bimbo eruptions ever made the Enquirer for Trump, he has raised responsible kids, even his first wife supports him which is very rare with divorced spouses)
8. He is another Ross Perot (Trump is a foot taller, can give speeches without charts & teleprompters, and is 100 times more exciting with charisma than Ross ever had)
I guess even that moron Bloomberg knew a private run course would be better than letting a government park service run it into the ground (/pun).
Bingo!
You play the game that you’re dealt. I don’t hold it against Trump to bribe politicians. I hold it against politicians for accepting it
Adolph Trump’s popularity is based on nothing
Highth??? LOL.
TRUMP—> fascist socialist... (right-wing)
LOL, in the European definition yes, what are you really trying to say?
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