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Finnigan’s Wake Receives Grant For Expansion Because Of Course It Does

Do you remember a little while back when we mentioned bastion of douchebaggery Finnigan’s Wake was going to expand to include a three-story outdoor bar? Did you think to yourself, “Oh boy, I hope they can get some money from someone else to help pay for that?” No? Well they did anyway.

According to The Somers Blog, instead of just paying for the whole thing itself, since it’s … you know … for profit, Finnigan’s was awarded a $74,000 grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District. Why? Because apparently they don’t like you very much.

More about why this is ridiculous is here.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 10:32 am.

  • http://twitter.com/jayzio jayzio

    That’s fucking outrageous. Crony Capitalism at it’s finest and localist. Finnegan’s Wake just received a $74k grant to landscape an alley! An alley behind their business that many people don’t even realize exists. Not to mention that (if the amount is correct) this is the LARGEST grant given out by the Penn Treaty SSD and the ONLY grant given to a for Profit organization (from what I can tell). This is EXACTLY the kind of shit that everyone was warning about when the PTSSD was formed. The least they could do is landscape the front of finnegans or the concrete median in the middle of spring garden. This is outrageous. Imma bout to ‘splode

  • Ryan Roat

    So politically connected businesses are benefiting from politically connected foundations that funnel money extracted from taxpayers in politically connected and derived casinos?

    I’m shocked, SHOCKED.

    Good job libertarians and Rendell Dems.

    Listen, this is modern American government:  it exists to benefit multiple layers of skimming and independent bureaucracy.  If Bodine St needs ‘greening’ and/or ‘improvement’ the government should hire someone to do that.  It’d be little more than a rounding error in the city budget.

    But instead, we have casinos, which take large sums of money from (mostly local) taxpayers, allow private operators to skim a significant portion off,  maybe reduce our wage tax a few bucks a year, and then hand a small amount over to a foundation/CDC/SSD/non-profit.  Of course, that entity has it’s own bureaucracy to support (read: skimming) as it doles out money–through a process that may or may not be fair and open– to further entities, which then use portions of the funds to support their ‘oversight’ of  projects, before hiring outside contractors to do whatever it was that needed doing in the first place.

    We’ve reached the point where using or even (heaven-forbid!) raising the tiniest fraction of tax revenue is evil, EVIL, but we instead hand hundreds of millions to casinos  to effect the same result.  

  • Ryan Roat

    it’s not the only grant giver to a for-profit.  I know of at least one other:  they gave money to one of the local papers (Spirit or Star–I forget which) to upgrade some computers and hire interns.

  • tsarstruck

    Wow. Just. Wow.

  • friendlynerd

    The Summers Eve Foundation for Douche Awareness?

  • thegreengrass

    That’s kind of shitty :(

  • Cooper11

     Libertarians?  That’s about the only party you can’t blame.  More like Thanks Rendell Dems, and thanks all other Dems. 

  • Henry Pyatt

    Funny, because a certain PTSSD board member told me that they really don’t want to grant money to private businesses when they were asked about supporting existing programs for legitimately struggling small independent businesses…

  • Henry Pyatt

    Funny, because a certain PTSSD board member told me that they really don’t want to grant money to private businesses when they were asked about supporting existing programs for legitimately struggling small independent businesses…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=682299931 Christopher Sawyer

    Just talked to Chris Somers.  He stands by his story.

  • Henry Pyatt

     I believe it.  Its just funny how there seems to be a double standard.

  • Ryan Roat

    Libertarians for the anything gov’t can do, private enterprise can do better and cheaper.  It’s why we need SSD’s to bequeath us money to fix sidewalks and plant trees.