Comment 46037

By UrbanRenaissance (registered) | Posted August 20, 2010 at 09:00:23

I see, so on one hand, Jason (taxpayer) is allowed to spew off without restraint and on the other hand, a guy, Young, who has invested millions into a business and the city has to shut up.

No one told Bob Young to shut up, he did that himself when he walked away from the table. But if you're referring to earlier when he was promising to use $15 million of his own money for the stadium, he would have been contributing less than 6% of the overall cost, hardly a majority shareholder. Then he has the gall to try to force the city into a position where he would get almost 100% of the revenue from his 6% investment. Nobody in their right mind would agree to a deal like that.

I'm not saying he hasn't been generous with his philanthropy over the years (and I feel that includes owning the Ti-Cats) but all the philanthropy in the world doesn't give you the right to hijack this process for personal gain.

I would be more than willing to consider alternatives but the fact of the matter is that Bob Young has not produced a single shred of evidence as to why the WH won't work for him. All we have is innuendo, hearsay and in some cases (like the accessibility of the WH) outright falsehoods. Talk may be cheap but so is making claims without any proof.

Raising the Hammer and user name character limits since '09

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