TMC: Thirty Miles of Corruption

The City of Riverside pays approximately $80 million dollars during redevelopment for the Fox Theater, and we are now giving it away!  These tickets were found in a box in front of a store on Main Street.  The box said to “take one.”  When counted there were 44 tickets.  What’s egregious, is that some people paid for the event while others don’t.  Was this a last ditch attempt to fill empty seats?

According to the PE, the Fox launched the Pink Panther Festival to begin August 22, 2014 with ticket prices to begin at $7 and up.  These just state to redeem voucher for a ticket, I would suspect at the ticket counter.

Live Nation runs the entertainment and show schedule for the Fox Theatre, incidently, Mayor William “Rusty” Bailey’s childhood friend, Paul McGuigan works for Live Nation according to the Press Enterprise.  The McGuigan Family even lived with the Bailey family for two months when they were young!  Bailey has been friends with Paul McGuigan, who works for Live Nation, since the fifth grade.  That’s a familial close tie.  According to the Press Enterprise the two (Bailey and McGuigan) attentded school and church together from fifth through 12th grades as attested per Bailey.

The McGuigan family lived with the Bailey family for two months when the McGuigans first moved from England for McGuigan’s father to become pastor of Calgary Presbyterian Church, which the Baileys attended. The families remain friends, Bailey said.

Bailey said he had asked McGuigan if Live Nation would be interested in running the Fox. (He also asked that applications be sent to other big-time operators including AEG, Bailey said.)

But after that, he stepped away, he said. “I didn’t want anybody to think there was any undue influence.”  I see Mr. Bailey, that was justifiably good of you.

“This is an exacting opportunity for the City of Riverside,” Mayor Rusty Bailey said., “this contact will provide Riverside with a world-class entertainment provider to match are world-class facilities.”  We at TMC were not aware or anybody in the City of Riverside that Riverside had “world class facilities.”  Did Mayor Bailey give this paid gig to Live Nation because he grew up with one of the officials Live Nation, Paul McGuigan?

The City continues to be in the business of government entertainment, even though the Fox Theatres continues to operate in the black at over $1 million a year.

No matter which way you look at it, handing out tickets is a “Gift of Public Funds.”  This would have been a decision the City would have had to make.

TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!  TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED.  I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO THE ACLU.  RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS..  TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVLY EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (WE BELIEVE THIS WILL END SOON, SINCE THE FOCUS IS NOW ON THE IMPROPRIETIES OF MR. “Z”, WE TRIED TO TELL YOU, BUT NOBODY LISTENED), AND DON’T FORGET WE ARE PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… A STRATEGIC LEGAL MANEUVER THAT CAN BE DONE ONLY IN RIVERSIDE WITHOUT A CONTRACT, WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!   COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  WE JUST CAN’T SPELL!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT BY CONTACTING US AT:   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM