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IS IT TRUE that Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry and other community representatives are in Indianapolis today to testify before the Ways and Means Committee? …that they are there to support a bill authored by Tim O’Brien that will significantly increase the amount of money captured in the Evansville Professional Sports and Convention Development Area (PSCDA)? …that last year, with a cap of $10 per resident, the PSCDA captured $680,000? …that HB 1451 would raise that cap to a flat $5 million? …that the bill increases the captured amount by 750%?
IS IT TRUE that the mayor and E-REP may have unannounced plans for spending a $5 million a year gift from the state? …that the funds could be used to secure a bond that could pay for fun and games projects like a baseball stadium, a really rad skate board park, or maybe fund a professional bocce ball league?
IS IT TRUE that Evansville is home to one of the best car dealerships in America? …that D. Patrick’s Raymond Farabaugh was just named the TIME Dealer of the Year at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show? …that the D. Patrick car dealerships have supported numerous great causes in the community?
With that $5 million gift from the state , how about replacing city sidewalks in the older parts of the city so all citizens including seniors and the disabled can enjoy walking in their neighborhoods ?
It does not sound like a $5 million gift from the state. It sounds like a $5 million tax on the people of Evansville that the state has to gift permission to take. The people of Evansville will pay this tax if the state gifts permission to this conclave of fun and games who are travelling to Indy today. WE will pay the tax and THEY will spend it on trivial pursuits.