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The prioritization of race programs, race events, and race facilities over all other activities is obvious to anyone paying any attention to the operation of the mountain.
It’s money, it’s politics, and it’s just gross.
</blockquote>I feel your pain, but as a capitalist I won’t say business is “gross,” just that sometimes I’m disappointed and saddened, even angered by these business decisions. In the case of Cannon, state owned, it’s understandably harder to swallow.
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Agreed. Business is business - it is neither great nor gross, it simply is. But in this case you have a public asset in the middle of a public park controlled by appointed public servants and staffed by public employees. To that add money and politics. The result is special favors granted to connected and influential individuals that redirects public assets away from the majority and into the control of the minority. That - IMO - is gross.
Not to go all 14th amendment here, but I have never been able to rationalize how one group of citizens can exclude another group of citizens from access to public land simply by virtue of belonging to a private club. This is different from a private enterprise controlling its own assets. IOW: it’s ok with me anywhere but at a state owned facility. And I get it that they have signed agreements that allow this - that’s how they do it - but how do you rationalize those agreements?
Other than to inject money and politics and now we’re back to, well, gross.
