The PeeDee recycles a story published in Crain's Cleveland. It's about Labor complaining that the zombie Convention center plan here in Cleveland was not backed by the mayor when it became clear the idea had no popular support. Maybe the people don't care how many special interests or other parties come banging on their doors for extra taxes to fund projects with dubious chances of doing anything very positive for the local economy. But don't take my word for it, the backers themselves say:

In the wake of the Gateway development, which promised thousands of jobs it failed to deliver, union officials are aware that overblown employment estimates will backfire.

But they go on to say, "this one is different". If we keep feeding this pig, as with baseball park, the football stadium, and the other tax funded monstrosities downtown, they'll be back for more chow later. As in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, when Bullwinkle says "I'm going to pull a rabbit out of my hat", the retort from Rocky is "that trick never works!". Let's ignore Bullwinkle's lame reply of "This time for sure!".