City of Dallas doesn't want voters' input

We support the No Taxpayer Hotel group in Dallas.

This is from the freedom-fighers in Dallas (the city facing a $100 million shortfall) who are working to keep the City Council honest -- and let voters decide if they want a taxpayer-funded convention center hotel:

On Wednesday, our City Council voted to approve development and operating agreements for the proposed, $550,000,000 convention center hotel. With less than 70 days until voting begins, the City continued their effort to ensure the taxpayers who are ultimately responsible for the debt, are completely excluded from the process. Discussion regarding the agreements was conducted behind closed doors and the terms are being kept hidden from the public.

The decision to move forward with the hotel despite a pending vote came just two days after the City Manager announced Dallas was facing a $100,000,000 budget shortfall. Furthermore, St. Louis was forced to sell its convention center hotel at foreclosure auction last week. (The proposed hotel Dallas hotel is the same size as St. Louis' hotel, yet several hundred million dollars more expensive).

We encourage you to share these recent developments with your friends and neighbors and ask them to sign up on our website. Only with your help can we make sure the Dallas taxpayers who will assume $550,000,000 in new debt are able to vote on the hotel.


You can help. Contact your City Council Member and the Mayor and let them know you think the taxpayer funded hotel should be stopped.

go to: http://www.notaxpayerhotel.com/ for more information and to sign up.