Our political priorities, in High Definition
August 30, 2007 at 5:56 pm by Wayne GarciaMy column this week deals with a decision by the Tampa Sports Authority to ask city and county taxpayers for more than $3 million in capital improvements, including $1.5 million for $4,000, HD flat-screen TVs for the luxury suites and pricey Club Level. In time for the Super Bowl in 2009. At a time when the governments are slicing jobs.
The give-it-all-to-the-Bucs contract approved by the local governments in Hillsborough in 1996 mandates that Raymond James Stadium must be kept up to the standards of all the other taxpayer-financed money pits in the NFL. I get that, but my question was, in the middle of the property tax crisis, couldn’t we defer the TVs for a while more and, instead, ask the Super Bowl fatcats to turn around in their seats and watch the game live, in reality, instead of viewing it on the HD sets in their suites?
Check it out here and let me know what you think.
