{"id":186,"date":"2004-07-02T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2004-07-02T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T13:55:51","slug":"turns-out-they-didnt-think-we-could-steal-the-abma-from-the-marriott-sawgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Turns out they didn&#8217;t think we could steal the ABMA from the Marriott Sawgrass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibo.nyc.ny.us\/\">Independent Budget Association<\/a> released its analysis of the proposed Jets stadium yesterday, and it turns out they don&#8217;t think the city can find 35 new mid-sized conventions to fill the space after eight Jets games and Ozzfest. The <i>Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/02\/nyregion\/02stadium.html\">reports<\/a> the Jets responsed with the charge that the IBO was both &#8220;pessimitic and inexpert&#8221;. And, for once, you know, I might be inclined to agree with them. I don&#8217;t think the city really has tried hard enough to determine if they really could do better than 20 (the IBO number) new events a year. If we call go out and find just one potential convention group, I think we could have at least six or seven by the end of the day. Look, I&#8217;ll start: out in Aurora, Illinois, there is the <a href=\"http:\/\/abma.org\/conventionnews.htm\">American Brush Manufacturers Association<\/a>, who just had their convention in Ponte Verde, Florida, at the Marriott Sawgrass. And if you mistype their URL, you get the <a href=\"http:\/\/amba.org\/conf_sessionsGrid.php?conf_id=4&#038;\">American Mold Builders Association<\/a>, who have <i>two<\/i> yearly events, in Cleveland and Key West, in the coming year. I&#8217;ll bet the IBO didn&#8217;t even consider the AMBA and ABMA. It&#8217;s the kind of small minded thinking that will talk yourself out spending $600 million on a stadium. I, for one, am embarrased for my city today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Budget Association released its analysis of the proposed Jets stadium yesterday, and it turns out they don&#8217;t think the city can find 35 new mid-sized conventions to fill the space after eight Jets games and Ozzfest. The Times reports the Jets responsed with the charge that the IBO was both &#8220;pessimitic and inexpert&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}