Lars Larson: Be honest with taxpayers when you nab $600M

By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,

The Northwest Nonsense

If Oregon taxpayers saved new Trailblazers team owner Tom Dundon half a billion dollars, the least he could give them is a little honesty.

With the blessing of the NBA on the team deal this week Willamette Week reporter Robert Ohman writes “ Dundon bristled at the notion that there was ever a threat of him moving the team.”

Well, Mr Dundon, some of us have ears to hear and eyes to see and we don’t believe in the Easter Bunny.

Dundon closed the deal to buy the Blazers for four and a-quarter billion.

The team wasn’t worth nearly that much while tied to the boat-anchor of the badly-in-need-of- renovation MODA center.

Trust fund kid and former Mayor Ted Wheeler transferred that 600-million dollar obligation to taxpayers by foolishly buying MODA for a dollar less than 2 years ago.

Dundon owns a hockey team in North Carolina that needed a stadium fixup. Taxpayers got the 300-million dollar bill and Dundon put in zip.

Does Dundon really expect folks to believe that he would not tell Portland and Oregon “fix it up so we’re happy or we can pack up and move the team.”?

That’s the Rose City Rap. Join me at noon on KXL for 4 hours of Honestly provocative talk. I’m Lars Larson