This is exactly what's happening in Philadelphia, thanks to "America's
Mayor," now chair of the Democratic National Committee and presumptive
future governor of Pennsylvania, Edward G. Rendell. Almost the first thing
he did when he took office eight years ago was to virtually eliminate
funding for the Philadelphia Zoo (oldest in the nation) and the Art Museum.
He and Vice President-in-waiting Tom Ridge blew a highly lucrative deal to
bring a German shipbuilding firm to the former Navy Yard; then they went out
and pulled in Kvaerner, a real sweetheart deal complete with massive
subsidies and tax writeoffs...only to have Kvaerner announce that they're
getting out of the shipbuilding industry entirely. (Why? Could it be that
investigators are getting too close to exactly why the Kvaerner-built
Estonian ferry sank in the Baltic Sea several years ago?) One of Rendell's
proudest "achievements" was to get Disney to agree to build a "DisneyQuest"
urban theme park/mall like the one Rudy Giuliani has in Times
Square...except that as soon as Eddie left office, his successor, former
City Council President "Fighting John" Street, announced that the deal was
dead... You gotta love it, people!
----- Original Message -----
From: Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 7:05 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Censored by the Bay
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>>THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES
The San Francisco Zoo is still in deep trouble. And six
years of private management hasn't helped.
In fact, since the private San Francisco Zoo Society took
over, salaries are skyrocketing, admission fees are up, and the
animals are no better off.
That's just one example of how the privatization trend --
the giving away of public assets to the wealthy -- is robbing the
San Francisco Bay Area. And yet it continues apace -- at the
Presidio, at the Edison Charter Academy, perhaps soon at a
private parking garage beneath Golden Gate Park. Unaccountable
"friends of" groups are making spending decisions for city
departments, untouched by public influence or public
accountability. It's a massive shift of resources away from
taxpayers and voters and toward big business and wealthy
foundations -- and you won't read about it in the Chron[icle] or
the Ex[aminer] [San Francisco's only two daily newspapers].<<
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