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And just look what a cultural wonderland Ritzville is!
He doesn’t want King County to support arts & cultural activities funded in part from revenues received by people spending money IN King County, but I’ll bet he’d scream bloody murder if someone suggested King County residents shouldn’t support funding in HIS district for roads, schools, and the like that his constituents CAN’T fund on their own.
Didn’t even have the decorum to send the standard form letter. What a prick!
honest and direct. art does nothing for his constituents. they don’t care.
unless the art is also a windbreak or a shading device or a meth lab.
@7: Why should anybody bother explaining anything to you? You are a fucking moron.
@aiff, you are so right. Ritzville is home to the friendliest drunken quilters in the state!
Hey, Ritzville just got a Taco del Mar. It’s moving up in the world.
@7: Sure, “art” won’t go away. But this lodging tax funds an amazing diversity of arts organizations and projects around King County, and without, a significant chunk of them will go away. This includes community chorales, small theaters, collectively-run art galleries, dance ensembles, local reading series, and many other arts events that are on a small scale and so have a very hard time making ends meet. Government funding for the arts helps ensure that art that isn’t commercially viable. And while you could take a rabid social-Darwinian attitude about it and say “fuck anyone who can’t survive by their own bootstraps”, the government funds a whole fuck of a lot that I have no interest in supporting, starting with the military and continuing well into corporate welfare and all sorts of regional pork. While we’re funding all that, with considerably larger sums than we give to education and social services and, yes, the arts, we might as well make some tiny gesture towards one of the only things that makes life immediately more enjoyable and survives over the centuries to demonstrate what kind of a culture we live in.
Also, we’re talking about a wee sliver of a tax that isn’t going to go away and has to be used to pay for tourism-related activity. Why the fuck shouldn’t it be used to pay for the arts?
Schoesler is a farmer. Farmers don’t pay taxes on anything in this state. Close the tax loopholes for farmers and all of a sudden, there’s lots of funding for the arts. But majority Democrats would rather fuck their own constituents in Seattle, Tacoma and urban Puget Sound so that red county welfare abusers like Schoesler get to keep their welfare.
HEY! been to Ritzville lately? Don’t you mean Shitzville? No offense but at least the guys honest. Look around at the dying rural areas and towns in our state and country and get real!