Senator Patrick Anderson of Enid suggests a way to fund the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-lawmaker-offers-options-to-complete-american-indian-cultural-center/article/5365523
Senator Patrick Anderson of Enid suggests a way to fund the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-lawmaker-offers-options-to-complete-american-indian-cultural-center/article/5365523
this is complete bunk. I want so desperately for this to be a moment that us small government people stand up and demand to BULLDOZE this waste of time and money. Take the hit on the lost monies to make a statement that says WE DON’T WANT BULLCRAP LIKE THIS ANYMORE!! bulldozeit.com is for sale from godaddy. I wish I knew how to do that community organizing stuff.
Yeah, what Matt said. Or we could use TNT – might be able to sell tickets to see the explosion and thereby get back some of the money already wasted on this dimwit fiasco.
I totally agree! Not one more penny of state money should go to finish this “money pit”! Bulldoze it or auction it off. Instead of taking money to the state coffers from Indian gaming revenue going to it, let the Indian tribe(s) finish it with their own money from gambling.
When will the legislature get the point… TAXPAYERS don’t want one more red cent put into this boondoggle!
‘We don’t have any tribes in my district, so it’s very difficult for us to accept that we’re going to spend taxpayer dollars for this project if we don’t see a commitment from the tribes as well,” Anderson said.’
The Indians don’t have a say in how that money is spent, so what ‘commitment’ is he talking about?
What does having ‘no tribes’ have to do with wasting money?
How did this guy get elected anyway?
Is this a project of the tribes, who now want the state to finish it because they have run out of funding? Or is it a project of the Oklahoma Historical Society, built on state land, and authorized by state law (even if pushed by the tribes)?
All along, I have thought it was the first option, and have strongly opposed the appropriation of additional (actually, any) state funding. But I guess it is actually a project of the state government (Oklahoma Statutes, §74-1226). So it’s actually Oklahoma that has the unfinished project, as opposed to the tribes. I am not a tribal member, and what they do is not my business. I am, however, a lifelong Oklahoman; so having a major unfinished state project, in a prominent location, does concern me.
We definitely should have done a better job of “considering the cost,” before building this tower. It probably should never have been started at all; but it was started, and that can’t be changed – Now that we have it, we have it.
Just thinking out loud, and now uncomfortably undecided on additional funding.
As others have pointed out though, Anderson’s funding argument is still bogus, as it’s state money, either way.