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Originally posted by 1956packard
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.
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.