Archive for June 4th, 2009
York County steps in crap again
by Maddog on Jun.04, 2009, under News, Politics
Last week I first read about a concerted push for an increase in the hotel tax in York County from 3 percent to 5 percent. I talked about it in my podcast.
It turns out the BS is deeper than I thought.
Two of the three York County commissioners voted to spend $40,000 of tax money on a tourism ad promoting York County. Then I find out the $40,000 was part of a $50,000 ad proposed by John Riggle, who happens to own a marketing firm. Mr Riggle allegedly contributed $2,000 toward the ad, with the remaining $8,000 coming from the York County Economic Development Corp.
The ad ran on TV and radio in May, and it contained a toll free number. Now you think that is bad enough?
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