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Our "illustrious" corporate newspaper, The Herald Times, has been giving Mayor Mark Kruzan some grief about Finelight's departure from downtown Bloomington for the Westside. They say that the mayor displayed a woeful lack of leadership because he wouldn't commit to building the parking structure that the medical marketing firm wanted for its employees.
HOGWASH!!
Mayor Kruzan's refusal to commit was in fact great leadership, and great fiscal responsibility, because he didn't want the City to be building such a structure until it was clear that it was necessary. As it turns out, three independently run studies show that it is NOT necessary. This is yet another reason why I'm glad that DFMC is actively supporting him.
Despite the revelations that another parking structure is unnecessary, the Herald Times continues to harp on this; but what about Finelight CEO Sherman Rogers' leadership? Rogers could have shown some leadership by encouraging Finelight's employees to walk, ride a bicycle, take the bus, or carpool. In fact, why doesn't Finelight buy a small fleet of ethanol-fueled vans which could go around and pick up their employess and bring them to work and take them home?
Oh WAIT! They can't they already spent that money on a $27 million luxury aircraft.
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Hogwash?
I have a less polite word, but never mind.
So Finelight decided to pick up their marbles and move into the Teletron building, where their employees will walk not quite as far from the parking lot as they would have walked from the mostly empty parking garage that is DIRECTLY SOUTH-WEST of where they were planning to build in town.
Sounds like this Rogers guy learned how to be a whiney crybaby from George W. Bush himself. Good for our Mayor for standing up to that kind of crap.