Whipped Cream Difficulties

…and I wasn’t a gun owner, so I didn’t say anything.

(No, wait: actually, I did. Previously.)

Then they came for the ROT Rally and the Heat Wave car show.

Travis County commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to lease the banquet hall to the Travis County Central Appraisal District instead. The lease would be from May to August, making the banquet hall unavailable for the Republic of Texas biker rally, which would take place in June, and the Heat Wave car show, which is scheduled for July.
Organizers with both events said that not having access to the banquet hall could be a deal-breaker.

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If commissioners approve the agenda item on the banquet hall lease, “there won’t be a ROT rally in 2019,” Bragg said. “If they decide to postpone the decision, there’s room for negotiation.”
The same goes for Heat Wave, said David MacDonald, the show’s owner.

I don’t have anything against motorcycle people: some of my best (virtual) friends are motorcycle people. And I kind of agree with part of the argument: why give the space to the county (basically moving money from one pocket to the other) instead of letting a profitable event that brings in a host of visitors every year pay to use it?

But as I said several years ago: there are more deaths associated with the ROT Rally every year than were ever associated with the old Saxet gun shows at the Expo Center. The ROT Rally is always something I find vaguely obnoxious. Fortunately, most of it is either downtown (which we avoid during ROT Rally) or out at the Expo Center. But you still have roads clotted with bikers, many who seem to have bolted on the loudest exhaust pipes commercially available. That weekend’s usually a mess, and I wouldn’t miss it terribly if it was gone. (I don’t have the same reaction to the car show. That just maybe barely impinges on the fringes of my consciousness. Maybe they could do that in WillCo?)

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