…and ignore the cowardly, anti-democratic Cleveland City Council
“We are in a position where our economic pie continues to shrink of resources, and we still have to provide the services that residents deserve and expect,” he said, echoing the line the administration gave to council when they begged for more casino funds.
Principled, data-driven explanations like these are tailor-made for voters who regard themselves as enlightened, who support democracy-building efforts in principle but who fear that the annual allocation in the PB charter amendment is simply too large to warrant support.In the first place, funding PB is not an example of what’s called a zero-sum game, in which the gains of one party necessitate the losses of another.
Indeed, residents who are eager to see improved resources and infrastructure in their redlined neighborhoods are the last people on earth who would gamble away precious public dollars on ill-conceived projects that imperil city services.We needn’t dig up ancient history to find an example. It was only last month that thein urgent repairs at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse — escalators, TV cables, things of that nature — that must be paid, per the team’s lease, by the public.
Local elected leaders have been funneling hundreds of millions of public dollars to privately operated stadiums for decades. It just so happens that this time, the unfunded remainder of one routine Cavs request is the same annual value that the November charter amendment seeks for PB, so it presents a tidy side-by-side case study.
It should be perfectly obvious, given this dynamic, that when guys like Kris Harsh rave about the 2% allocated to PB being spent “outside the guardrails” of city council, many voters take it as an insult. What have these supposed guardrails done for us lately? “If this is actually about stadium costs, then let's address that directly and together, he said. “There is no need to fight labor, City Council, the mayor and the people of Cleveland on this."
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