Okay, you poor losers in Cleveland… get on your knees to Christopher Kennedy. Beg Chris to come.
Kennedy in The Plain Dealer got some advice from his pal Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan. Be as offensive to Cleveland people as you can be. Talk to them as if they are losers. Actually, yell it. Losers!
We’re such losers that we’re going to give Kennedy of MMPI some $425 million and pay almost as much in interest. Give him ownership for 20 years of what we build. Then, as a sweetener, give MMPI another $108 million over 17 years to show us what losers we are.
Are we pathetic or not?
MMPI (Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.) of Chicago – not losers by anyone’s definition – was brought here by King Hagan, the Kennedy family’s go-to guy in Cleveland.
“Without us,” Kennedy says, “you would have no one.”
He tells us where we stand.
Wow! He’s making Forest City Enterprises look humble. That’s some accomplishment.
“If the mentality of the town is people shouldn’t be successful, I don’t want to do business there,” he says.
You know where the door is, don’t you?
The PD news story says… “The medical mart project is Cleveland’s biggest hope for a rebirth.”
Who sez? Where is that written in concrete? What authority gave that dictate?
Please stay in Chicago, Kennedy. We don’t need you, and if you took a vote you’d find that we don’t want you.