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Name: Traverse City Convention and Visitors Bureau
Age: 17
Occupation: promoters of Traverse City
Last Seen: Traverse City, MI
Bee-otched For: aiming low
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Ahhhh.... Traverse City. It was the town I was born in and grew up around for roughly the first 21 years of my life. Like most towns and cities, the town known as the Cherry Capitol has had its pluses and minuses.
In recent years, there's been that part of me that makes me wish I could move back up north full time. After all, it's the home of the Traverse City Film Festival and Short's Brewery. But sadly, the non-profit group that's designed to promote the city of 14,000 is trying to attract the wrong people.
Yesterday, I heard an ad for the Traverse City Convention and Visitor's Bureau that talks about the pure beauty of traveling up north. It talked about the shopping, the wineries, the brewpubs... You know, what makes Traverse City great. It was a decent ad and all, but there was a small problem.
You see, I heard the ad on regular terrestrial radio. Not only that, it was on WOOD-AM 1300 here in Grand Rapids... Just before 2 p.m.
Yes, the ad was aired during The Rush Limbaugh Show.
Now, in the wake of some 150 advertisers yanking their spots from Limbaugh's show because of his vulgar comments regarding law student Sandra Fluke, why would a Chamber of Commerce-y organization like the TCCVB want to advertise on his show? Why do they need dollars from the idiot Hollanders that are already ruining Grand Rapids and their big, mighty SUVs dragging their boats doing 35 MPH in a 55 MPH zone up US 131 just south of Fife Lake with 10 cars behind them? Folks, these AREN'T the people I want to see in Traverse City. Hell, I want diversity!
Ya know, folks, there's a lesson that needs to be retold. Just one day after Obama was elected president, a well-known gun shop in Traverse City, Hampel's, started flying their American flag upside down. It was clearly in protest of him winning the presidency in a fair and just manner. What's more insulting is that the manager responsible for hanging - and ruining - the flag, Rod Nyland lovingly called the then-president-elect the N-word to a reporter for the Traverse City Record-Eagle, creating further embarrassment to the mostly-white community. Thankfully, that manager was fired.
Oh, and by the way, for many years, Hampel's was a huge advertiser on Rush's show in Traverse City, heard locally on WTCM-580.
Look, I think the TCCVB needs to look where their advertising dollars are spent. There's better places to spend their money other than during Rush Limbaugh's daily hatefest. Wanna know an amazing fact? The last time I was up north, the only time I saw ANY black people was at the Turtle Creek Casino in Williamsburg. Wouldn't it hurt if Traverse City made itself more black friendly? I get tired of seeing old rich white folks everywhere I look, and conservative ones to boot. Let's make Traverse City more liberal-friendly and keep the conservative jerks here in Grand Rapids.
Because Traverse City doesn't need more flags of distress.
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