Posted by
Terry Gray on Friday, April 24, 2009 8:59:21 PM
For those of you who come to Louisville for the Derby, we are like any other town during a big shindig. We love the attention and the money that comes to town but we have to work too.
What you don't see is our crooked mayor hiding the homeless, the city sweeping its garbage under the rug, and the residents being put out royally.
All Derby week there are events that draw attention and participation from all over the world. Saturday, April 25 this year (tomorrow), the mini marathon begins at six a.m. Every street in the south end is barricaded and residents cannot leave their blocks. Runners have precedence over our roads. There are many people who need to go to work who cannot get out. There are deliveries that can't happen. If there is a fire no one knows what would happen. Would the race be halted to allow fire trucks access to the neighborhood where the house or business is burning?
One year I expect that something dire is going to occur and someone is going to die because the city too busy putting events to provide the services for which we pay taxes.
Mayor "Happy Pants" Abramson, why don't you move the mini marathon to your neighborhood one year so your east end rich folks can't leave their streets? We don't want your damn mini marathon here bud. And so we are clear, if something happens to one of my family and I need to get out, there will be some mashed runners to scrape off the roads.
How about you join the race?