Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: 1956packard on September 13, 2008, 10:25:34 pm September 13 2008
Aloha and Lawzee: Just something to consider please excuse my poor English The Bells ordeal at the fairgrounds some of you say that Sally bell and her family have a axe to grind and don't know anything about business well most of you probably don't know what's going on. The Bells were run out of business because they are republicans & members of the John Birch society who don't engage in corrupt politics Mrs Mayor, her cronies, & the city counsel were all having running screaming hissy fits back when the city was considering annexing the fairgrounds because they didn't want the Bells around with the Bells around The mayor, and the city could not get away with their mickey mouse political doings. You probably don't remember this but back in the early 1980's 80,81,82,83 the bells wanted to leave the fairgrounds so they could build a water park and a improved amusement park at 193rd east ave and 51st it was just magic they couldn't get water rights from either Tulsa or Broken Arrow and the project failed. Hey boys & girls can you say Murphy brothers and the Just built Big Splash and can you say corrupt fairgrounds trust authority and corrupt city and county governments. Oh where oh where is the grand jury oh that's right I just forgot this is Oklahoma besides a fair and just grand jury in Oklahoma what was I thinking The Bells their amusement park and their business dealings I won't say how I know but Robbie, Bob and Sally Bell are quite astute at the amusement park business if nothing else the have this little quirk they like to eat, to pay their bills & to have a roof over their heads most mom & pop family owned amusement parks are either closed or death traps small amusement parks can't get the cash flow of a Magic Mountain or Six Flags type park the Bells on a much smaller scale bucked that trend but it took them lots of honesty, character, their religious faith, frugal business knowledge and most of all hours and hours of hard work sure Mrs Sally Bell has a axe to grind a big one but who better to start the house cleaning that Tulsa's city & county government needs The Bells don't know anything about politics that's is a erroneous statement Bob & Sally Bell both graduated from Tu where do you think they met and they both are outspoken members of the John Birch Society just look at the white van they drive it's a rolling billboard for the John Birch society Ah so dishonorable Grasshopper you have awoken the proverbial sleeping Dragon P.S. hey people the Bells know more about politics and government than the average person and will do whats right for the city I know how do I know well lets just say that's personal and leave it at that I'm not writing this because I am a nut or a fanatic p.s.+1 for everyone's edification the term Lawzee was a term used by Gailard Sartain on the old mazeppa show P.S.+2 Hey boys and girls you think I don't know what I'm talking about then answer me one question The Bells youngest son just got married earlier this year can you tell me where he went on his honeymoon? there is a lot of garbage going on in local government the people of Tulsa have been screwed over for decades Sally Bell will do what is best for Tulsa. She is not out for revenge I do not have a lot of faith in politicians but I do in Bob, Sally, Laura, Robbie & Jason Bell women like Sally Bell are ultra astute and ultra wise they take care of business and accomplish great things yes the Bells are being discriminated against if nothing else than by public ignorance P.S.+3 long before Bells closed or the city announced that it was considering annexing the fairgrounds all parties concerned had a mutual agreement to get rid of the Bells in favor of the Murphy Brothers asap any way any how or they wouuld not do business together the term fairgrounds trust authority for years used to be a four letter word to Bob,Robbie, and Sally Bell there is no love lost between Bob, Robbie, Sally and the Murphy Brothers either the bottom line with the Bells is they wouldn't play nice with the crooks because they don't play with crook what happened they got burned big time by the crooks Aloha and Lawzee Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: YoungTulsan on September 13, 2008, 11:34:40 pm Formatting and punctuation are your friend.
Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: Hoss on September 13, 2008, 11:58:35 pm quote: I'm guessing once Sally loses on November 4 this poster will fade away....because most of the message has been about Sally. Sorry, not enough experience for me, although I was glad she ran to beat Randi Miller. Although I figured if you could have registered a spider monkey to run against Randi Miller, said spider monkey probably would have beat her. Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: swake on September 14, 2008, 01:11:59 am quote: A spider monkey would have better command of the English language. lawzee. Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: waterboy on September 14, 2008, 08:02:39 am I'm not one to overlook messages because of bad grammar. It makes it harder to converse but I can deal with that. I suggest you keep your posts focussed and simple cause we're all fairly impatient around here!
What I can't deal with is "trust me, I know personally" or the Bell's have been treated badly because they are Republicans and John Bircher's. This city is overwhelmingly conservative Republican in nature. Accusing your fellow party members of discrimination doesn't wash. I believe there is a lot of relationship business going on in local government. Lots of preferential treatment being passed off as "expertise". Stuff like graduates of Leadership Tulsa doing business with each other, fellow country club golfers dealing with each other, fellow TU grads, ORU grads, Rotary members etc. That's life. Especially in the business world. Corruption is too strong a word for that. Cronyism is better. Murphy Bros. and some of the heavy contractors who do business with local government look plenty dirty and at least unethical, but if there is hard core corruption in city/county government its being hidden pretty well. Cheating? Absolutely. Unfair advantage? Absolutely. Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: RecycleMichael on September 14, 2008, 10:10:14 am I think waterboy is right.
The only reason to vote for Sally Bell is because you dislike the way Murphy Brothers does business with the county. That is the crux of the argument from all the supporters I have heard to date. Vote for Sally and she will clean up that. That is not enough for me. I have faith that change is already happening. The other two commissioners outvoted Randi Miller on issues like appointments the last year. The fairgrounds management has changed. Change is already happening at the County. The reason to vote for who gets to be the third commissioner needs to be calculated on more than a single issue. Especially when the singular promise is to continue what is already happening. I am a democrat and support Karen Keith. I think she brings much more experience in government than Sally. I think many more people with have much more confidence in County government if she is elected. Title: Sally Bell/Bells Amusement Park Post by: swake on September 14, 2008, 12:35:24 pm quote: This is complete and utter nonsense. There's a lot that stinks with the County and it is centered on the current and past county Republican leadership of Randi Miller and Bob Dick. It makes no sense that Bells was tossed due to their Republican political leanings, because it was a Republican dominated County Commission that kicked Bells out. Bells was unfairly kicked out because the corrupt Republican county commission was in bed with the Murphy's. Democratic Mayor Kathy Taylor had nothing to do with it and no say. The Republican county commission is the one that was in a hissy fit when the city annexed Expo Square and that happened after Bells was already gone. Bells closed in the fall of 2006 and the city voted to annex the fair grounds in April of 2007. Nice revisionist history to try to blame the Bells debacle on Kathy Taylor but it was ugly local Republican politics that drove out Bells. |