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Metro Council's Angela Leet announces run for Louisville mayor

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RE: Metro Council's Angela Leet announces run for Louisville...

October 5th, 2017 @ 11:54AM (6 years ago)

Merger was a farce intended to fool people into thinking Louisville was a safe city on par with cities like Boston. I still remember how the merger advocates tried to say Louisville would pass up Boston once merger happened. They wanted to make crime look artificially lower by mixing the City of Louisville's crime rates with the lower-crime unincorporated county. Surprise, surprise, nobody's fooled. There are people who can still tabulate the crime rate for the urban services district (the old city).

Businesses considering a relocation have always counted the total population within local commuting distance of downtown, not county borders. They also look at things like the availability of non-stop flights, taxes, crime levels, skillsets and education of the workforce and a whole lot of other things that Louisville's not doing well in.

People aren't as ignorant about the facts as when King Jerry used to bamboozle the residents into re-electing him over and over. That's why nobody's buying the story being told by the Mayor and the Chief about crime being down "except for murders doubling." That's too big of an exception to be overlooked.