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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because of what happened at Turtle Park, Cheh is jamming the pool down Hearst's throat.[/quote]

You mean that people didn't want other facilities at Turtle Park to be paved over for a pool?

They way residents in Massachusetts Heights didn't want a 6 story homeless shelter right next door?

Cheh always kowtows to the first squeaky wheels, and then gets frustrated, digs in and jams projects down the throats of her less favored precincts.[/quote]

Many people in AU Park wanted the pool at Turtle. The baseball mafia had more sway with DGS.

It is only the selfish immediate Hearst people (who would benefit the most) who are fighting this. The NW Current article indicated over 75% of the people want the pool. If Cheh can bring it home, she will be seen as a hero.

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"75 percent" according to a ridiculously flawed, manipulated "survey,"  with weaknesses that several others have pointed out.  Even the Kremlin runs more honest polling.

As for sports mafias, Stoddert soccer opposes any pool that would impact the soccer field.  Thousands of kids in Upper NW play soccer, and many of their teams play at Hearst.  Their parents vote.[/quote]

The implication of "mafia" is a tight-knit group with disproportionate influence. NWLL had 43 teams in the fall, Stoddert had 450 -- yet there are three times as many baseball fields in Ward 3 as soccer fields -- and DPR considers the baseball fields more sacrosanct than the soccer fields. Stoddert Soccer is probably the largest membership organization of any kind in Ward 3, at any given time a quarter of all kids in the ward are participants and one in ten residents of the ward is either a player or a parent.[/quote]

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