In fact, I think I’m going to set up “TheState’sDwindlingReadership” and Tweet about all the fluffy feature stories they run instead of news about how Mayor Bob Coble and others have run Columbia into the ground with astronomical unemployment, unfathomable crime rates, and a failing economy. That’s funny, right?
Had taxpayer’s been footing the bill — like with the $3,000 “team-building” retreat or the$10,000 drag queen performance — I bet the cake would have been 25 layers tall and coated with diamond icing.
RuPaul is expensive
COLUMBIA DROPS $10,000 ON DRAG QUEEN PERFORMANCE — CRIME, CORRUPTION STILL MAJOR PROBLEM
With violent crime, homelessness, gang activity, domestic abuse,corruption and various other things running rampant in Columbia the city council has decided to allocate $10,000 taxpayer dollars to the South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Pride Movement which said it will use that money on their September festival, the Free Times reports. Much of that funding will come from a hospitality tax and go toward paying drag entertainer RuPaul.
The hospitality tax, a 2 percent levy on prepared food and drink, goes toward supporting tourism in the city. [...]
Mayor Bob Coble says he is pleased that the city is presenting a welcoming image. “Columbia respects people of all walks of life, and this diversity is our strength,” Coble says.
From a financial standpoint, Coble says having an open and accepting community is important if the city wants to be competitive in the global economy. [Free Times]
You know what else is important? Not getting mugged or having your property stolen because the $10,000 that could have paid for an extra police officer to patrol the streets at night for a third of the year was spent on a drag show.
But just like the “So Gay” campaign, it’s only a few thousand dollars, supporters say. No big deal. Chump change.
Forget that it could have been put to use in about 500 million better ways that would bring about desperately needed changes. And forget that the city budget is loaded with BS handouts like this and the nearly $500,000 allocated by a member of city council to HIMSELF.
Nope, saving lives apparently isn’t PC-enough anymore.
Note: The first loud-mouthed New Englander that has never lived in Columbia and had their car broken into, their house robbed, their friends attacked at gunpoint and on and on because there aren’t enough on-duty police officers who comes on here calling me a bigot or homophobe is banned for life.
Waldo's been calling on Boy Fogle to put up or shut up on these claims for a year now, and Mr. Fatwah won't do it.
Time to double down, McLovin'. Prove your contention that a grant to a gay pride event costs police protection, leads to home break-ins and car prowling, and friends of yours being attacked at gunpoint.
How on earth, Scoopy, can $10,000 cause that much havoc? Let us all in on the news.
And, for the record, we're happy to call you out as a bigot and a homophobe. Not for the first time, either. Ban away.
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