Chris Ericson, a 3rd party candidate for governor and senator, wants to spend $100 million dollars to re-design Springfield, moving all the old buildings hiding the view of the Black River and waterfalls to create a park and then build a new high rise building across the street to market all Vermont products.
The following statements are from the Ericson campaign:
United States Marijuana Party candidate, Cris Ericson, has a new campaign slogan for 2010:
"People Lovingly Educating And Saving Everyone! Please!"
"P.L.E.A.S.E."
Cris Ericson has a brand spanking new video on CCTV, airing now in Burlington, Vermont.
http://www.cctv.org/node/94158
On internet streaming video.
This video emphasizes the total waste of taxpayer dollars arresting about 1,800 Vermonters a year for marijuana possession, (like Russian Roulette, who gets away with it, and who doesn't?) at a cost of about $50 Million dollars to taxpayers;
plus the loss of about $50 Million dollars that could be earned in the small population state of Vermont when marijuana is legalized and taxed.
Cris Ericson shows how the first $100 Million dollars of savings could be put towards economic development in Vermont. This video http://www.cctv.org/node/94158 shows downtown Springfield, Vermont (HOME OF THE SIMPSONS MOVIE) where, after promoting Springfield for the Simpsons Movie, the Springfield Movie Theatre, and the apartments above it, suffered such a devastating fire that the whole building is still boarded up.
Across the street from the Springfield Movie Theatre are a significant number of store fronts that are closed, and Cris Ericson shows how deserted Springfield looks with so many businesses gone out-of-business.
These empty store fronts are in buildings built back to back with the Black River. There is no space at all between the backs of the buildings and the river. This is a shocking ecological error. You can't see the incredibly beautiful Black River and the amazing WATERFALLS because they are hidden by these old factory buildings.
You do see some of the fabulous waterfalls in Cris Ericson's video, where she gets in between spaces in buildings and on a bridge to show you.
Cris Ericson wants to re-design downtown Springfield, Vermont with money she feels the State of Vermont can earn by (1) legalizing and taxing marijuana; and (2) ending marijuana prohibition and releasing offenders from the prisons which are so over-crowded that Vermont is sending prisoners to out-of-state private for profit corporate prisons, that are further draining money from Vermont because their
corporate owners are out-of-state, siphoning tax dollars from VT.
Cris Ericson wants to remove the old factory buildings, a significant number of which have empty store fronts and closed down businesses, and build a beautiful park like Central Park in New York; and then across the street from the river, in the old
burnt out and boarded up Springfield Movie Theatre, take that building down and build a New York style sky scraper to over look the beautiful new park and the Black River and the amazing WATERFALLS, and use it to help ALL of Vermont: to create an ONE STOP SHOPPING high rise for ALL VERMONT PRODUCTS, MAPLE SYRUP PRODUCERS,
CHEESE PRODUCERS, ARTISTS, POTTERY MAKERS, ETC.
This use of tax dollars would help all of Vermont, and Springfield is conveniently located on Interstate HWY 91, with the best access for New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island shoppers seeking all Vermont products; and tour buses.
Cris Ericson is the BEST 2010 Vermont candidate with the most original ideas. She also has a video showing her plans to bring EB-5 foreign investors to Vermont on her blog http://USMJP.com
http://www.sec.state.vt.us Secretary of State
click on Elections
click on Candidate List
scroll down under PE Primary Election candidates to GE General Election candidates
and see:
Cris Ericson, United States Marijuana Party for Governor of Vermont
and
Cris Ericson, United States Marijuana Party for UNITED STATES SENATOR FOR VERMONT.
http://crisericson.com
http://USMJP.com
http://www.cctv.org/node/94158
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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Ms. Ericson may want to re-evaluate the plan of REMOVING the factories that are so much a part of our heritage ~ perhaps RENOVATING them, turning them into the 'high rise' to house Vermont-made products, high-tech industry, etc. Really incorporate the river INTO the buildings! Open them up with windows and sidewalks, let the river showcase itself.
ReplyDeleteWhile she's at it, let's return the town green to the center of town! Perhaps Springfield can offer an incentive to the nice folks who own the Chittenden Bank building to invite them to move across Main St into those empty store-fronts; the parking lot can return to its former life as a town green, a hub of activity, free music, the Community Market, etc. Perhaps parking can be re-designed, and one of the old factory buildings can be renovated into a parking garage.
Springfield is, in a nutshell, a dead little nothing of a town. Most of the inhabitants are on welfare, milking unemployment or lack the ambition to do anything other than get by. Since I've lived here, it's been nothing but problems dealing with the uneducated, meth addicted pot heads. They steal from my business, they steal from the donation boxes, they do nothing but hold out their hand for bogus workman's comp claims and welfare.
ReplyDeleteCLEAN up the place, run out the riffraff. Price them out and they can either step up and get a job or go away. Do you see meth heads wandering the streets of tourist towns?
Restore the nice old buildings, tear down the junky ones, then get a restaurant that isn't completely horrid and people might stop in instead of lock their doors until they get from the highway to Chester. I'm moving my business away from here the first chance I get, and I'm not the only one!
Anonymous...I'm very sorry (but not surprised) to hear that you are being robbed; years ago, my husband and I owned a store on the 2nd floor that was broken into in the middle of the night and vandalized. It's very disheartening, discouraging, and infuriating.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I sure wish you would consider staying and helping those of us who want to save Springfield find ways to do just that. If the good people all leave town, it will be left to the "riffraff" you talk about. There are many folks in the community who are rolling up their sleeves and getting work done that is aimed at improving the situation in this town; just "running out the meth-heads" isn't good enough...they will simply move their issues and crimes to other communities. In a way, we all live downstream; do we want to handle our problems or hand them off? :-)
I agree, it's exasperating to be working hard all day and see a portion of the community lazing about, apparently collecting "compensation" from the sweat of your brow and the brows of others. I'm right there with you, Anonymous. Please don't give up on Springfield; we're a microcosm for the rest of the country. People need to be held accountable for their decisions, and bad behavior must have dire consequences. Otherwise, it won't matter if people choose to do drugs or steal ~ there is no need to be responsible for your actions if there is no serious repercussions.
Cris Ericson cannot help Springfield, Springfield is controlled by a network of evil dooers called THE CIRCLE OF ZERO
ReplyDeleteThey control The Grid here. They steal tax money and lie to the public.
Look Closely at "The Top" local officials re-development and re-invention concepts. ALL FUNDED WITH OTHER PEOPLES MONEY and hidden through false 503c and similar tax advataged fronts.
Now the point is THEY LIE TO GET THE MONEY and HURT THOSE WHO KNOW THE TRUTH.
AUDIT SPRINGFIELDS 503c groups and ALL "REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT" groups.
Get rid of those who are taking business away from downtown and buildings along the river and let the owners of these buildings heal from the economic damage caused by those whose opinions are fical.
Cris Ericson,
If you, or anyone else for that matter, came to Springfield with $100,000,000.00
The CIRCLE OF ZERO would steal it from you.
I suggest you use the old factory in your movie to grow Marijuana. Local Marijuana will reduce hard drug use and initial experimentation. Eventually leading to good people sticking around Springfield and our kids not moving away the minute they turn 18.
Good people are needed in Springfield to save Springfield. There is NO re-development or re-invention plan that will ever work. Those who believe so are "barking up the wrong tree"
There will be only one answer. Together WE STAND Divided WE FALL. Anything less is genocide.
Seriously? Marijuana? This town doesn't need more potheads, sitting around eating cheetos.
ReplyDeleteThis town needs an industry that employs people other than transient hourly entry level people. People deal drugs in the Black River Produce parking lot and nothing is done. People are caught on camera stealing from businesses and nothing is done.
Defense contracting is a great way to go, aerospace, the opportunities are there. Sure, you'd have to import 99% of the work force since most of Springfield is uneducated- but the service industries would pick up for the newly imported skilled work force.