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"the chair of ABRA (I think?) had made a statement along the lines that 'This city needs tax revenues, and one family's sleep shouldn't get in the way of a new restaurant opening which can bring in added tax dollars."

The ABC Chair said nothing of the sort. The above is a re-phrasing of an out-of-context quote provided by DCCA's president, for little more than dramatic impact, at the mtg with Gray. The ABC Chair's actual quote can be found in the transcript of the Hank's hearing. He was simply asking one of the protestants to run through a list of VA items and quantify some things, and the protestant kept avoiding the question (a habit the protestants exhibited continuously throughout the hearing), and kept talking rhetorically about resident's sleep, and the Chair expressed some exasperation and then confusion at how that might be quantified.

The fact that the Hank's protestants failed to understand what was said, what was asked, and who's really to blame for their loss, shouldn't be surprising really.

by VAwatcher on Nov 30, 2010 1:07 pm • link • report