These boys will build you a cun-ven-shun sinner.
Let's follow this chain of logic shall we... 1) Metro Council votes to appropriate tax revenues to MDHA for "predevelopment activities." 2) Then, MDHA turns around and uses those tax dollars to hire local PR firm McNeeley Piggott & Fox. 3) Then MP&F turns back around and lobbies the Council, doing things like mass-mailing Council members from the website they set up and enticing audiences to Council hearings with free ice cream. Says CM Mike Jameson: "I bet there are Appalachian hillbillies who aren't this incestuous." Or wasteful. It almost makes more sense for each Council member to burn a $20 bill while staring in a mirror trying to persuade their reflection. At least that'd eliminate the middle man. Last bit of Music City Center news before the weekend (we swear): Remember Jim Forkum, chair of Budget & Finance, who made such a stink this week about a public debate over the convention center? Yeah, he's officially nixed the idea of bringing said debate into his committee. Guess he just didn't want that thing to happen at all, no matter if it were at Vandy or not.
