If anyone outside of Fort Wayne is following the story on Tom Henry and the Fort Wayne folly called Renaissance Square, they must be getting a chuckle as Henry whips out his mojo.

King Henry spoke whined at the Downtown Rotary Club yesterday and used the event as a bully pulpit to moan about the city and county sharing the City-County Building and Renaissance Square.

In his speech to the Rotarians, Henry threatened to move the entire city operations into Renaissance Square if the county doesn’t pony up more money. In other words, pay-to-play in his sandbox, or he’s taking his toys and leaving.

It’s interesting to see how the MSM mouthpiece of the Henry administration writes about this in their journalistic flotsam called the Journal Gazette.

The city bought the Renaissance Square building for $7.3 million. It has about $8.6 million budgeted for renovations. The city has committed to not spending more than that on the building, although early engineering studies said it could cost more than $11 million to renovate.

Come on Benji, where’s the beef? On the high side, you’re at $18.3 million. It’s going to cost a hell of a lot more than that. How about telling the truth? How about the now projected cost of $23 million?

Times are good, what’s another $5 million dollars?

On another note, (and my apologies to Leo Morris), we’re going to block Fort Wayne Newspapers from accessing this site for a while. Lanka and Warner will have to wait until they get home, or find another way to get here for a while. We only wish we knew Pat White’s IP address as well.

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