Randi Miller’s Fat In the Fire
Tulsa County Commissioner Randi Miller has evidently begun feeling the heat over the eviction of Bell’s Amusement Park from the Tulsa Fairground.
So much so that she’s now resorting to smoke and mirrors in an attempt to get her fat out of the fire.
A fire which came to light when a KOTV/Tulsa World poll published over the weekend indicated that 70 percent of those surveyed said they disagree with the decision not to renew Bell’s lease at the Fairgrounds.
Even more alarming to Miller and others behind the Bell’s ouster is that 24 percent of those surveyed indicated that the closing of Bell’s would affect their decision about whether to attend the Tulsa State Fair.
Now, Miller is trying to find a way to release a confidential business plan submitted last fall to the Tulsa County Fair Board by Bell’s Amusement Park, claiming that once voters see the business plan they will understand why Bell’s was evicted.
Robby Bell, President of Bell’s Amusement Park and family spokesman says that a release of the information would be a breach of confidentiality and goes on to point out that “They made a decision; now they have to live with it“.
Having to “live with it” is the last thing that Randi Miller wants right about now, as the Tulsa Drillers baseball team is planning on moving from the Fairgrounds to Jenks, the Fair Board having already paid Matrix more than $300,000 for plans for a new armory kitchen for the Fairgrounds is now going to pay CJC Architects Inc. of Tulsa another $315,000 for new plans because the Fair Board did not like the originals, the Fair Meadows race track and off-track betting parlor have become a sad joke and Tulsa County voters are likely to defeat to Miller’s “water in the Arkansas River tax hike” come October.
But having to “live with it” is exactly what Randi Miller needs right about now and at the next election.
Tulsa and the Fairgrounds will be a lot better off once Randi Miller’s fat has had a chance to throughly cook in the fire and the voters of Tulsa County have had the opportunity to ‘put her out’…
I hope you know that it is important to release the business plan of Bells to set the record straight and get all the facts on the table. It is Bells who has been using smoke and mirrors for years to hide what had become a very run down and sad operation with no money. Bells had turned into a very unsafe place for families and no longer even a shadow of what it use to be decades before. The Fairgrounds had done great things over the last few years including improving existing buildings and building new ones that will bring events to Tulsa that have a real positive dollar impact.
I am sure Robby Bell is a good person, but good business man? He has be spreading lies about the Fairgrounds issue and trying to drag them through the mud that he created.
I for one with no stake in the Fairground- but glad that they are making more money and bringing outside money in through events. I hope the facts on Bells are allowed to come out. If Robby Bell is allowed to publicly lie then he must be ready to face facts that become public. If he didn’t wanted the facts of his business plan public then he should of stayed silent.
Excuse me, Mr. McAdams, Besides your several misspellings and poor grammar, your ignorance is betrayed by your glaring illogic. I have researched this matter, not exhaustively, but extensively and I have not heard or read anyone behind the decision to put Bell’s out of business ever mention “run down” or “unsafe” conditions at the park as the reason(s) for ending their lease. (Incidentally, the safe operating condition of Bell’s as well as all amusement park rides in Oklahoma is the responsibility of the state Commissioner of Labor and Bell’s could NOT operate without a certificate of inspection therefrom for each and every ride.) It was always some vague, unspecified problem with Bell’s business plan that was cited. Bell’s had a 56 year track record of success. What could possibly have been so wrong with it’s latest business plan that it warranted this kind of hostile treatment from our elected public officials? (Channel 6 examined it and found nothing extraordinary.) So far they have not adequately explained/justified their actions to us, their constituents and we must hold them accountable. The question is, HOW?
As for you, Mr. McAdams, whenever you accuse anyone of spreading lies or any other scurrilous offense, you should do yourself and everyone else the simple civil decency of giving at least one prime, specific example or you are nothing more than noise polution.
No Zingo, No Pepsi, No golf, Still no parking, No Skee-ball, No hometown feeling anymore. Now we have to call the Expo Center something that our overly corporate city government has decided on. If I wanted to go to a generic fair…I can go to Okla. City. At least it is bigger. I am very disappointed in the fair this year and our so called city leaders that have brought about the death of one of our city icons (ZINGO). Makes me want to ask the mayor and the other powers that be just who do they intend to run out of town next?
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