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Jay Peak bombshell

AdironRider

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Notice how Shummy does not outright deny wrongdoing.

VTDigger has documented how Shumlin and Company KNEW that it was a fraud but made the decision to allow the projects to get done. It was strategic--completed Hotels at Burke and Jay are worth more than uncompleted projects left to rot.

In some weird way, he’s not wrong. Well I should say I guess I see the logic.

Assuming they sniffed out a fraud sometime after the stuff started getting built, it is inherently better to see that project completed rather than completely destroy the only economic engines of the NEK.

I do think people often forget EB5 was effectively a VISA buying program. The investment was permanent US residency.
 

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That would be great, but I'll be at the Grateful Campout in Maine that weekend. Can't beat a weekend of camping and music for $100.
 

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Got the boss to agree to a waterpark weekend next week.

Haven't been to jay in some number of years. Decent place to eat Saturday afternoon? Kids will be with us. They eat normal kid stuff: pizza or chicken; wife eats salad. Decent draft beer is a requirement.
 

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Got the boss to agree to a waterpark weekend next week.

Haven't been to jay in some number of years. Decent place to eat Saturday afternoon? Kids will be with us. They eat normal kid stuff: pizza or chicken; wife eats salad. Decent draft beer is a requirement.
The foundry pub on the mt...
 

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JRAD at Stateside Amphitheatre August 13

too bad its a sunday. i'd be all about that on a saturday
JRAD is playing the day before, Saturday, August 12th at the Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston OR Saturday, Aug 5th at the Hampton Beach Casino. There's 2 Saturday shows from ya.
 

KustyTheKlown

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JRAD is playing the day before, Saturday, August 12th at the Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston OR Saturday, Aug 5th at the Hampton Beach Casino. There's 2 Saturday shows from ya.

all good - i saw them last month at brooklyn bowl with bob weir sitting in, and i am seeing them on a Thursday this summer in NYC on a rooftop pier just south of the bk bridge. plenty of jrad for me locally.

is leader bank the former boa pavilion? cool venue.

it's very much BUY CONCERT TICKETS season.

coming up - disco biscuits tonight, four tet in may, hot chip in june, dmb in june, LCD in june, jrad in july, possibly newport jazz in aug, sigur ros with 40 piece orchestra in aug, ween in sept, black coffee msg rave October. probably missing things.
 

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Looks like your friends were right after all…

i always told them i'd go to thursday if it were free but i am skiing on the weekend. that's exactly whats going down.

these losers cant sell tickets. even if the show is crowded, the tdb crowd doesn't buy tix til day of (and why would they - tdb tix are almost always available under face value as the show approaches). i honestly think nyc venues/promotoers have blackballed them because their shows aren't profitable. they haven't played in NYC since 2019, just the cap and the wellmont in the burbs.

they gave a friend like 50 tickets to just distribute as he sees fit. LOSERS
 

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The disco biscuits ineptitude as businessmen has always intruiged me. Its amazing that they still do it, TBH.

its insane the number of horrible decisions and misfortunes they have experienced. its the recurring reason why they never broke thru and graduated into larger venues. most notably was jon punching a paper towel dispenser and breaking his wrist in 2010 on the eve of a ~50 show tour and a mainstage set at Ultra Miami

but we also have jon falling thru a vent and breaking his leg, sammy walking thru a plate glass window, allen inhaling some sort of construction dust causing him to miss the entire new years run one year, marc being kicked out of the band for 6 months in 2000. it goes on and on and on.
 
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