Or I guess I should say, “Maybe Tom Leppert could invent a time machine, go not too far into the future and see how other cities handled the convention center hotel issue, come back to Dallas and the present, and change his mind about public funding.” From Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, which, for some reason, is the exact name I expected the mayor of Nashville to have, via Nashville Public Radio reporter Blake Farmer, which is a solid name for a reporter for Nashville Public Radio:
“He told council members it would not be wise to ask taxpayers to pay for a publicly owned hotel in the current economy.”
Preach.
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