Ellis’ weekly column touches on my post about campaign promises

Poor Mike, no matter how hard he tries, he can’t bury the past. Just like a Shakespeare play;

Then out pops an ad from the Huether camp. There’s a picture of a smiling My Man Mike, and he’s promising to save taxpayers $100 million by building an events center that costs $100 million.

How do you save $100 million by spending $100 million? Next to Huether’s picture is a picture of Brown and Costello, looking like ghouls who eat puppies. Below that is a summary of the plan they endorsed, albeit with some exaggeration. The ad says Brown and Costello supported a plan that would cost $202 million and increase sales taxes.

At the time, Huether said he would build the facility using private investment, the existing entertainment tax and user fees.

The irony in all this is actually Vernon Brown, while the mayor has HAD to change his mind based on polls and studies and by already securing the office of mayor, Brown is notorious for flip-flopping like a fish out of water. Maybe that is why he got 3rd place in the mayoral election, TWICE.

But back to campaign promises. There was only one candidate running for mayor that would have given us exactly what he promised. And since he told the truth, he was not selected. What a sad state of affairs we are in now. As I told some commenters the other day, you made the Mike Huether bed, now you can sleep in it.