October 06, 2004
Damn the populace, full speed ahead
About 100 people from a wide range of community groups rallied outside D.C. City Hall yesterday, insisting that the city has better things to spend its money on than a baseball stadium for the Expos. "We say to this mayor and some members of the city council that you will not get this stadium when people are sleeping on the streets and schools are crumbling," said Damu Smith of Black Voices for Peace. "You are not going to have an easy way to get this stadium through."
D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams dismissed the protest as "Williams (D) dismissed the protesters, calling the demonstration "populist grandstanding," telling reporters that the city "can do this [stadium] and make the kinds of investments we can make in schools and recreation." No, Tony, actually it can't.
