Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy?
I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as a $400 million deck park.
And didn’t we just have an election? On May 3 we had a school board election. Couldn’t we have voted on the deck park then?
Not a lot of people vote in school board elections. If the deck park supporters thought they could muster the vote, they would have put that project on the ballot.
So why didn’t we put the deck park to a vote?
Oh, yeah, because the deck park would have been voted down. The only people who support the deck park are the boot lickers who kowtow to our alleged “ruling class,” their country club buddies and the politicians and hangers on who live on the ruling class’ teat.
Back in the twilight ages, that brief cusp between the Dark Ages and the Enlightenment, I used to sell memberships to health clubs. All the spa head salesmen loved pre-sales for new health clubs because there was nothing wrong with a health club that hadn’t been built yet. The hot water was hot and the pool was clean and the weight machines were brand new.
It’s the same with the deck park before it’s built. In the imaginary deck park, there are no drunks guzzling quarts of Old Milwaukee out of paper bags. No plastic grocery bags festooning the trees. No hundred degree heat.
You’d think that it would be an easy sell. So let’s vote on it and put the issue out of our misery.