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[cross-posted from the award-winning Save Anaheim / No Jordan Brandman blog]
Disney wants more Anaheim tax $$$$$
It isn’t enough that Disney and their minions at SOAR, OCTAX, OCBC, and The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce pushed thru the GIVEAWAY of $158 million in future tax revenue to build 2 luxury hotels at the GardenWalk Ghost Town. Hotels that were, and I believe still are, slated to be operated and branded as Disney properties.
Disney President George Kalogridis and Anaheim Council candidate Jordan Brandman.
To jog your memory, read this portion of a City of Anaheim staff report and then watch SOAR aka Disney members vocally supporting the $158 million giveaway:
“The Owner is currently negotiating with Walt Disney Company (Operator) to manage and operate the hotels under its brand. The Agreement approves the Operator to manage the Project. However, should Operator purchase the hotels, they would not be eligible to receive the City’s financial assistance.”
Now Disney wants Anaheim and federal/state tax dollars to fund a ridiculous rail system to shuttle its guests between ARTIC, their future 4 star Disney branded and operated GardenWalk hotels, and the Anaheim Convention Center.
Disney’s business model is absolutely genius. Here’s how, I believe, they pulled off the $158 million GardenWalk Hotel deal.
Step 1:…
Read the rest of this harrowing tale at Save Anaheim,
and read it before you vote for Council, Anaheimers!
Then people who live in Anaheim should get the previous price for Disney tickets if they ask for tax money from the Anaheim people. If they subsidize the Disney company they should get some quid pro quo.
So that Artic thing is scheduled to be built or not built? Please give us the recent info about that.
“…tax dollars to fund a ridiculous rail system…” Darn, I thought it was on something else!
Disney officially has more money than God! Let them fund their own rail! When are people going to say enough is enough?
Of course, with Save Anaheim, the dinging of the corporatists is mostly on point. It tripped me out, though, to read the 5-point ‘back to the basics’ list near the end mentioned as the motivation for the blog in the first place. I’ve been to all of the debates and too many ice cream trucks never came up as an issue!
No. 3, I really can’t jive with either:
“Curbing the swap meets that take place on my neighbors lawns on a weekly basis. Garage sales are for getting rid of unwanted junk once a year not to supplement ones income.”
In Anaheim’s ‘sacrifice zones’ of neglect gente bust out the swap meet sidewalk/lawn sales and I have ZERO problems with that. It’s a privilege to be able to sell shit without it being a side hustle to make ends meet. Having no rent control ordinances make people vulnerable to slumlords. Connect the dots. Corporatists and sacrifice zones are interconnected.
Lots of folks have faith in the blog. I hope the trajectory of its arc bends towards engaging issues affecting poor and working people in Anaheim instead of calling for ‘curbing’ the shit they feel they gotta do out of necessity.
My two cents. Always open to dialogue.
I am going to add my last two centavos. I had the same reaction as Gabriel did when I went to the cross-referenced website. What’s wrong with my beloved trokas paleteras (ice cream trucks) meandering through the historical downtown area?. Except for Rudy, all the other folks living there must be whites. Signs of pretty boyJB are all over their lawns. Common guys loosen up! Enjoy the paletas made of frutas naturales, no preservatives; appreciate the entrepreneurship of my gente in this free market. One thing I agree is about the Xmas melody, it should be changed. In this website, Pringle and all the people posing with him are like el demonio. Now I know why we are messed up. Where were my rucos when this guy was setting us up? The more I read in the blogs, the more confused I get. Why is the Artic project bad? It is a cool name, but don’t everybody agree that the Disney hood is the main source of revenues and jales? The “gravy train” from the fed,.state and city funds (un poquito no mas from the city, not too much from the city) would not benefit all of us? Don’t you brag about the London tube and Paris speedy trains when you come back from your trips to Europe? Don’t you like progress? Wait a minute, my produce marketa was torn down in the name of progress, here in State College and LIncoln. It was a replaced by a drive-in Starbucks! They’d better stock up on plywood panels, and keep them handy when the outcome of the investigation on the police shootings is released. Don’t we love Anaheim?
That’s too bad that the Anaheim voters are so uuneducated that they like Jordan brandman