At no point in the debacle did the founders of the Active Living Task Force, Lakewood Hospital Foundation or others admit, their active participation in the massive loss to the City of Lakewood or that the plan was to help a failed ex-Mayor in his support of lobbyist in a construction company get a lack luster building, that would house the co-conspirators and schemers in yet another underwhelming mixed use strip mall. This one calle strangely enough a name the failed ex-Mayor had trademarked nearly a decade earlier.
And that instead of a full service hospital, we would get a state of the art, very large Urgent Care Center, albeit run by one of the largest hospital chains in the world. No, through all that we were lied to, mislead, feed false information, berated, even stalk and intimidated by city officials, members of support groups all formed to hammer this night mare home.
Our largest employer, sent packing. Our largest draw to DowntowN Lakewood sent packing. The entire focal point that the schemers had worked so hard to get us to fund, liquidated into their hands, while we lost a full service hospital. It truly seems like a nightmare or DEBACLE as even some of the very participants now call it.
BUT it might have been worse.
The recently downsized Cleveland Clinic Sports and Fitness err urgi-care center in Madison.
They had removed sports medicine from the sign, but not the building.
Tiki patio.
Cozy front end.
Complete with rural bait on the mailbox.
So, let me assure you, and I was not inside.
It could have been worse.
So next time you are out having a drink, lift one to the worse Mayor and administration in Lakewood history, and the handful of sycophants that enabled them to fail the community in every possible way, except helping themselves, and remember Madison CCF offices.
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