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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Every Calgarian needs to watch this
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No. Its one of the few times I've disagreed with him, and I'm not going to go into every reason but theres going to be public money involved in CalgaryNEXT and thats fine, its a matter of how much, how its structured and what the City gets back.
I honestly believe that Cities can benefit from these deals if they're shrewd and well structured.
We will get a new arena and we as taxpayers will kick some cash in. Our elected officials just have to ensure that we get decent value out of those dollars and the original presentation and proposal was not it. That was not it.
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Originally Posted by browna
Bettman was invited by the Chamber of Commerce to speak on that topic. Plus, he visits each city for a state of the union to talk to and then do a Q&A session season ticket holders, every year. This wasn't anything more than that annual event.
Just deplorable delivery of a response from the mayor and his holier than thou attitude.
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I'm going to ignorantly disagree with you on that because I dont know for sure whether you're right or wrong. I was under the impression that Bettman asked for a private meeting between Nenshi, King and himself in addition to the 'State of the Union' address.
I mean, it doesnt matter either way. If Bettman invited Nenshi to his Town Hall speech and Nenshi said 'No' I wouldnt blame him for that either. I would have too. What the hell does Nenshi care about the state of the NHL?
And if it was a private meeting with nothing new to discuss I'd have said 'No' to that too. Sounds like a crappy 'gladhanding' waste of time.
Nenshi (and most of us I think) to Flames/NHL: "If you want to talk then quit screwing around and bring something sensible to the table."
Just more sarcastically.
Sometimes if reason doesnt work, try embarrassment.