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Originally Posted by bobg
If a conspiracy was capable of funneling $150 million dollars into Denver in order to attract the RNC convention one would hope they would have funneled some of that money to Coors and the convention committee. (You know the committee that was short on funds and the primary reason we got booted from the running.)
If a conspiracy was capable of manipulating the media (some have been) one would hope they would find something more desirable to your average conservative than a public transit hub.
Either this conspiracy doesn't exist or they are the most inept conspirators in the history of mankind.
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In my opinion, there was some friction between members of the moneyed community. Perhaps this friction could have been the result of who gets the payoff and who does not if Denver were to get the Convention (the biggest single profit generator would have been the Pepsi Center).
The failure of the "Bright Guys"- who likely are not the rich or powerful, but, are upper middle class employees- was not their ability to sell to the public (they are extraordinarily good at that), but their failure to get enough committed money from those that have it.
This suggests to me that the "Bright Guys" had a rough time getting their "employers" to put money on the table.
Lastly, I suspect that the Major, the city council, and, elected State offices whose precincts cover Lodo and the surrounding area, did not want to publically promise money unless a certain financial threshold in promised private money was reached.