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Kick The Bastards Out!

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Day
26
Month
July
Year
1974
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Kick the Bastards Out!

Dear Sun:

After reading about City Council killing this year's Blues and Jazz Festival, I just had to write you.

This city is really fucked! The Republicans in City Council are trying to kill all the cultural, student, street-people oriented activities that makes Ann Arbor a cool place to live. First, they try to kill the Free Concerts by not funding them, and charging a "police protection fee", when the real protection, traffic direction, drug help, cleanup, keeping order, etc, is done by the Psychedelic Rangers. These concerts draw people from miles away; I know -- I was picked up hitching to the concert by two dudes from Toledo; and the concerts provide entertainment for thousands every Sunday.

Next, they try to quash the "Free" Art Fair, by forbidding concerts on Wednesday and Thursday because it would "disturb the peace", and by, for no apparent reason, closing the fair 5 hours early on Saturday - no music, no booths, no fair.

Now it's the Blues and Jazz Festival. Granted, trash is a hassle, but the Rainbow Multi-Media (the Sponsors) offered a $5,000 grant to assure the site would be left clean.

Not to mention other things the council has done to "benefit" the city. Why is it that an old, established restaurant takes second place and a new restaurant owner with a little green in his jeans gets top priority? Why did Bicycle Jims not even have to wait for a liquor license, while the Brown Jug waited three years, and other restaurants are STILL waiting? (By the way, Bicycle Jims is under the same ownership as Lums on North Campus, but merely changed the name to procure two liquor licenses.) Why, also, were McDonalds and Burger King approved for Maynard St., when there are already six other restaurants in just the one block area of State-Liberty-Maynard-William?

The things that make Arm Arbor a nice place for students and other young people are being suppressed by a fucked-up Republican controlled City Council. Next election, KICK THE BASTARDS OUT!

Sincerely,

Karen