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An even more appropriate comparison race would be the 2000 contest between Adrian Fenty and Charlene Jarvis, another career politician who had been on the council for 17 years when Fenty knocked her off and actually started reviving Georgia Avenue instead of simply talking about it.

The fantasy that Evans' is about "economic development" is just that--a fantasy. We're paying 23+ million dollar per year in debt service on his last big boondoggle--the Covention Center--and despite citywide opposition to a baseball stadium, he led the charge to gift the city with that white elephant.

As "J" noted above, Evans has gifted his developer buddies and cronies with all sorts of TIFs and goodies that will take decades to bear fruit for the residents/taxpayers, if they ever do. And with the amount of debt the city has piled up to produce these deals, it has very little capacity left to take on truly sustainable economic development.

In closing, please don't forget who was head fox of the Finance and Revenue Committee and who has had oversight for all these years of the CFO's henhouse--the one where $50+ million went missing.

Another four years of Jack Evans? Not for this voter.

by LongtimeRez on Jul 29, 2008 4:49 pm • link • report

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