At Thursday’s city council meeting, the city council approved $25 million in revenue bonds for a new Drillers stadium, and then approved a resolution to ask the state lawmakers to save OSU Medical Center.
Ask? When is asking held off until there’s a vote? How long do you plan to drag this on? As long as it takes to keep it out of your hands? This is your city.
Bad city council! Bad!
If I had my choice between dinner at Red Lobster, or an appendectomy, I would choose the surgery. If my appendix burst, I wouldn’t approve of myself ordering lobster and then ask someone to have surgery for me. I would need to have the surgery. Health is priority. Death would hamper my ability to enjoy lobster.
A burst appendix would be out of my control, but I would not ignore the pain in my side for more than a year. I would find a solution, or at least acknowledge there’s a problem.
I know the OSU Medical Center issue has brewed longer than some of you have been in office. I know there is a limit to what the city can do. This issue with me is priorities. The city finds $30 million in donations to build a ballpark, finds the money move city hall, but makes no mention of the OSU Medical Center until recently.
State Treasure Scott Meacham hit the mark when he said, “We’re getting letters from the mayor and the city council … but nobody’s offering to actually put any money up to help the situation.”
Good to know where our priorities are. Now if you excuse me, I think I’ll have the lobster with a side of pen and paper. I need to write a letter to my doctor about my intense abdominal pain.
