Bonding bill fraggle
Proponents of another bonding bill project are accusing Gov. Tim Pawlenty of mischaracterization.
John Munger of the City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation sent out a press advisory today for an afternoon news conference. Foundation officials planned to explain the Olympic Training Center at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis.
In the advisory, Munger said the governor wrongly described the project as a snowboarding and a tubing facility. He said this project is about infrastructure for an Olympic Training facility that will be used by the general public and Olympic-level athletes and has nothing to do with tubing and snowboarding. The center is seeking $1 million from the bonding bill.
City officials in Chatfield recently made a similar complaint. They said the governor mischaracterized their bonding bill project, the Potter Center for the Arts, as a pottery facility.
Okay, the Minneapolis project has nothing to do with snowboarding. But in times of misunderstanding, I've often found the ABC's of Snowboarding to be instructive.
In terms of the bonding bill, the airdogs and hoedads need to shred more and bonk less. Just chillax.
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