"Employee in the hospitality industry" Katie Turner of Glenwood Springs writes in to the PI with her feeling of "how sad" of an individual Jolene Varley of Carbondale 'is'.
Wouldn't it be nice for our city coffers to have tourism based representation not repeatedly show our community in the same light as those within our tourism industry that are divisive, elitist, intolerant and just plain old 'subtle' and arrogant 'bullies'?
What we hear Jolene actually saying, that is now taken out of context by Katie Turner and turned into a personal attack on Jolene; is that we cannot afford, at this time, what we are spending on public art and the maintenance of.
Jolene 'attacks', in her letter to the editor linked above, the elected officials, the known suppliers and vendors that perpetuate what she considers waste spending. As a taxpayer that has no choice but to assist putting heads in beds for her community to survive, technically somebody like Katie Turner, in the "hospitality" industry...works for Jolene Varley.
What Jolene is implying is a bit like the 'birthday cake gimmick' and $600 dollars per minute ($300 of that covered by another bailout to tourism marketing by the folks) for the fireworks this year; both of which are just a small portion of the reason we are so buried in the hole with our tourism dollars here in Glenwood Springs.
How 'sad' it is that no matter how much deeper we sink into the quagmire, our hospitality and tourism representation still resorts to attacks on the general population.
Weighing the two letters against each other, Jolene Varley most certainly comes out on top as the class act.
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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
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I'm struck by Katie's thinking that she's a class act.
How old are you now, Katie?
Definitely no longer in High School or hanging out with the 'sorority sistahs'.
Katie doesn't know how old she is. That's why she acts this way.
When we have our bills paid and a tourism marketing base of minimum 3 million (puts us in the low range of everybody else) to work with for promotion and draws, then we'll have some public art. And maintain it.
Meanwhile, Jolene is dead on.
We can't afford it and our government officials are wasting money. What part of debt (still over 50% to 60% down before we can call any month a good month) do you not understand?
Great hospitable delivery though, Katie. You keep up that great representation of Glenwood Springs now, OK?
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