Pat Morris Blasts MCC Baseball Stadium

Pat Morris has been a Crystal Lake activist for decades.

I remember when she wrote words to the Kingston Trio song, “Charlie on the MTA,” during the fight over the Regional Transportation Authority’s rip-off of McHenry County.

Here’s the song’s chorus,

Did he ever return?
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn’d
He may ride forever
‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned.

Charlie had a dime to get on, but not the needed nickel to get off. (The lyrics are here.)

The Pat Morris version asked whether McHenry County’s money would ever return and you can guess what the answer was.

How appropriate for a day before the Illinois House is scheduled to ship suburban money to the Chicago Transit Authority–otherwise known as the CTA—through the RTA, now headed by former Jacksonville State Rep. Jim Reilly and former mass transit lobbyist Steve Schlickman.

With that digression, here is the Morris opinion:

This is a Trojan horse of a epic proportions.

Question:

Who is in the saddle?

Whose idea was it to lease tax exempt property to a for-profit baseball team?

If you think traffic is bad now, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”

Mention is made of blocking off some streets to all but local traffic.

How do you prove you are local traffic? How do you prove you live there?

A traffic light will have to be placed at Lucas and Rt. 14. Will the state allow a light in such a close proximity to an existing one?

Wells are the source of the college’s water supply. They will have to dig additional wells for the P.U.D. If you have a private well and live near the college, please refrain from flushing on game nights.

The P.U.D. also mentions using the stadium for “concerts” (another for-profit venture?) and a license for “permanent fireworks display.”

What isn’t mentioned is that they also intend to apply for a liquor license.

While you watch the sky get lit up, you can watch some of the patrons get lit up, too.

This type of activity is completely unrelated to the reason why the college exists, and should not be approved.

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The Trojan horse is from Wickipedia.


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