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Talk About Tulsa => Other Tulsa Discussion => Topic started by: TeeDub on September 17, 2007, 11:20:52 AM

Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: TeeDub on September 17, 2007, 11:20:52 AM

Is there a real reason she is going to India and China?   While I understand that she needs to "get away" once in a while... One would think there is more than enough work to do around here.

Oh, and any insight on who is paying for the trip if it isn't city dollars?  If someone can figure that out, then we all should be able to quickly deduce who she will pander to next.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070915_1_A12_hShew15244
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: Double A on September 17, 2007, 03:56:30 PM
Maybe it's Norman Hsu?
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: pmcalk on September 17, 2007, 04:07:57 PM
If she is visiting a sister city, my guess is she is getting at least some money from TGA.
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: inteller on September 17, 2007, 07:13:32 PM
quote:
Originally posted by TeeDub


Is there a real reason she is going to India and China?   While I understand that she needs to "get away" once in a while... One would think there is more than enough work to do around here.

Oh, and any insight on who is paying for the trip if it isn't city dollars?  If someone can figure that out, then we all should be able to quickly deduce who she will pander to next.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070915_1_A12_hShew15244


My guess she is going to go get rid of our remaining call centers.
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: Steve on September 17, 2007, 08:20:15 PM
These overseas junkets are just pleasure trips in disguise.  So the City may not be paying for it; Her Honor ought to keep her donkey at home and address more important issues, like the 4 murders we have had in Tulsa in the past 7 days.
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: guido911 on September 17, 2007, 09:15:42 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Steve

Her Honor ought to keep her donkey at home and address more important issues, like the 4 murders we have had in Tulsa in the past 7 days.




Yeah Mayor, it's your fault those four people were killed. /sarc
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: pfox on September 18, 2007, 02:19:33 PM
"No city funds will be used to pay for the trip for Taylor, Davis or any member of the business delegation."

from the article...
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: Chicken Little on September 18, 2007, 02:24:53 PM
China and India?  There are over 2 billion people there, if I were looking for opportunities, I'd start there, too.

Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: Rico on September 19, 2007, 07:43:54 PM



Originally posted by TeeDub.
quote:

"Is there a real reason she is going to India and China?"


I have heard a rumor we are looking into outsourcing the "Low Water Damns"....

Someone took a look at the "Great Wall" and thought, these people, for the right $price$ may get this River thing done at a fraction of the cost...

They will require the workers to stay in either a Hotel or Motel the entire time they are working on the project...

[}:)]
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: MichaelBates on September 20, 2007, 12:06:26 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Rico


I have heard a rumor we are looking into outsourcing the "Low Water Damns"....

Someone took a look at the "Great Wall" and thought, these people, for the right $price$ may get this River thing done at a fraction of the cost...

They will require the workers to stay in either a Hotel or Motel the entire time they are working on the project...

[}:)]



Let's hope she doesn't get any ideas from the Three Gorges Dam (//%22http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam%22). Goodbye, Brookside....
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: Conan71 on September 20, 2007, 12:56:13 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Rico




Originally posted by TeeDub.
quote:

"Is there a real reason she is going to India and China?"


I have heard a rumor we are looking into outsourcing the "Low Water Damns"....

Someone took a look at the "Great Wall" and thought, these people, for the right $price$ may get this River thing done at a fraction of the cost...

They will require the workers to stay in either a Hotel or Motel the entire time they are working on the project...

[}:)]



Wow, it's a shame the Camelot is already coming down.  Would have been better digs than they got back home in India or China.
Title: Mayor takes trip to India/China
Post by: Steve on September 20, 2007, 04:35:30 PM
quote:
Originally posted by guido911

quote:
Originally posted by Steve

Her Honor ought to keep her donkey at home and address more important issues, like the 4 murders we have had in Tulsa in the past 7 days.




Yeah Mayor, it's your fault those four people were killed. /sarc



No, I don't believe the mayor had any connection to the recent rash of murders.  But she should be concentrating city efforts on increasing personnel on our police force, increasing police visibility and neighborhood patrols, and not tooting off to some useless overseas trip.