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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2366535, member: 405"] His claim to fame, according to the Post-Standard endorsement, was his lead role in securing a developer to renovate and reopen Hotel Syracuse. The big challenge, which I don't know that he can do anything about, is the fact that 50% of the properties in Syacuse pay no tax. How do you grow a tax base when everytime someone wants to build a simple commercial building - a hotel, a store - people want tax breaks to do it? We have had idiots running the local government for a long time who have had no concept of the long-term implications of how they have been doing business. [/QUOTE]