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Originally Posted by sgt. pepper
Really! i made some comment a while back about how the american will bring much, much attention and tourist dollars to Tulsa and how i was upset that OKC passed it by like it was'nt anything, and people here jump all over me because they said it was dead and not to worry about it. Maybe it is dead, but to this day they are still collectiong money for it. i still think that is the coolest thing, and here we are now talking about a giant oil derreck. i just don't understand.
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I don't think he said he regrets passing on the American. I'm glad we did, we'd be foolish to put our momentum and efforts into a lost cause, that's why Mick Cornett and the City bowed out. Tulsa is still about a decade behind us in development and urban revitalization, they were desperate for the project and took it. It's still going nowhere. Instead of OKC talking about what "could possibly" happen in years down the road, we are working on what WILL happen. I agree the American is much nicer design than this oil derreck, but that doesn't mean either one will happen without funding in place. My guess if the State spent pocket change on our Centennial Celebration (not sure but I think it was $2 million). I'm not sure how this lawmaker is proposing the state give $100 million to this oil derreck. I'm a dreamer but you have to be a realist too.