" It's about the economy, stupid " - or is it all about the weather in Arizona? It's both! . . . Chris Brady, Mesa City Manager has snagged a reporter for a run around the bases in the media to try to trump other Arizona cities Cactus League Spring Training. True or False?
While spring training is a ‘second Christmas,’ others await anticipated boom
Here are some details from a report yesterday where Chris Brady compares sales tax revenues for last year from Spring Training 2015 here in Mesa to sales tax revenues for the holiday shopping season calling it "a second Christmas". . . mixing figures of speech
However, just like the weather, the city manager changes his tune practically every time Quarterly FY data comes out. Yesterday he uses a reporter to spread the good news that Mesa is apparently doing better than the other nine Arizona cities hosting Cactus League Spring Training to reap more rewards in the competition for a home run in sports revenues
Let's just call it "a seasonable adjustment" - it's up one season and down the next.
There was not an increase in project monies after the windfall from Spring Training last year, but on 21 October 2015 Arizona Republic's Maria Polletta published this headline story with a not-so-happy image of the city manager seen at the right.
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