Ed Morrison · Bad timing

January 1st, 2009

New Year’s Day…

…and we wake to see…

County extends Medical Mart deadline

Psst, leaders, today is for hope, inspiration, a spirit of expectation. Good luck food, like noodles or black-eyed peas.

Someone please step forward with a sense of direction…

Addendum

Here’s an example of a leading edge mayor giving a sense of direction by looking back at 2008. Notice how Mayor Abramson uses his top ten list to build themes about where Louisville is heading.

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  1. Mark W. "Some Guy on Bridge" Schumann Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 am

    I liked this part the most:

    Commissioners already face criticism for the slow pace on the $1 billion project, which includes an accompanying convention center and is expected to capitalize on the region’s strong health care industry.

    The old passive voice strikes again! Who expects the project to capitalize on health care? Can they quote just one serious independent observer who believes that?

  2. Ed Morrison Says:
    January 3rd, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Business plans organize a calculable probability of success for a venture.

    The fact that we do not have one speaks volumes.

    These folks have no idea if this idea will succeed. Sadly, I doubt they care. They are looking at taxpayer funds as “free money”.

    What’s disheartening to a lifelong Democrat like me is how perverse the local party has become.

    Machine politics thrives on collusion between a tight circle of business and political bosses. We could not have the tight control of the Cuyahoga County Democratic party without the collusion of business and leading members of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. (The latest collusion — the siting study of the Greater Cleveland Partnership which MMPI quickly discarded.)

    Corruption provides the funds that political bosses need to run their political federation. One of the major sources of corruption — where the big dollars can be skimmed — involves public projects.

    The dynamic is inherently self-serving and self-absorbed. It has little to do with what’s best for the broader community.

    The fact that we have no logical investment process for a convention center and no business plan — in the face of extraordinarily high market uncertainty (anyone bothered to calculate the exposure of the next generation of County taxpayers on this deal?) — indicates how perversely warped this project has become.