The expensive Uptown bus sales game
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You have got to just love the nerve of government. Take that Uptown bus deal.
Uptown Officials want to tear up beautiful Post Oak Blvd so they can add two exclusive bus lanes.
It will cost more than $200 million. Your money.
Part of the cost is apparently the sales job to convince you that this project is not the total waste of tax dollars it appears to be.
You know who’s paying for that? You are. That’s right.
Records obtained by Dolcefino Consulting show Uptown agreed to spend more than $150,000, in the last three months, to put on the “let’s convince the taxpayers” show. The professional agreement with Edelman Associates includes fees charged for that ceremonial groundbreaking in June.
So if you saw the Mayor and her Uptown friends shoveling fake dirt on TV, just remember. You paid for it.
Your tax dollars at work.
“We know some Uptown officials stand to make bank if this project goes through and they don’t even have the decency to spend their own money to sell the deal,” says Wayne Dolcefino, President of Dolcefino Consulting. “Is that nerve or what?”
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