Comments on: Fact Check: Convention Center Hotel Backers’ Press Release Fails

By: A Convention Center Hotel Round-Up, Starring Mayor "No Conflicts" Tom | Clubs in Dallas

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:33:55 +0000

[...] Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel, Trey Garrison put on his fact-checking pants and went nuts. His biggest revelation was that one of the women quoted in the press release, Sophia Dowl, owns Alpha Business, which [...]

By: Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:12:12 +0000

Just to clarify and fact-check your facts . . .

A national, or citywide, convention doest not bring 3 room nights to the city, it brings a minimum of 2,500 and often exceeds 10,000.

The current proposal would not be 100% funded by the city.

The DallasCVB had record BECAUSE of the hotel. 195,000 of the 1,000,000 room nights booked are because of the hotel.

To be clear (no word games) if the hotel is not built, 7 groups representing 195,000 room nights will not come to Dallas, and will go to another city.

And, as far as guarantees go, if we do not build the hotel I guarantee we will not even be able to compete for those 80 groups you mention.

By: Trey Garrison

Trey Garrison — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:33:30 +0000

gs1 — good catch. Corrected. Thank you.

Ellum08 — If I see anything as blatant as this, absolutely. I’m open about my opposition to the hotel project, and it’s based on free market principle. But my highest principle is truth.

By: gs1s

gs1s — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:51:50 +0000

vacancy s/b occupancy?

By: ellum08@yahoo.com

ellum08@yahoo.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:27:58 +0000

Trey,

I support the hotel, but I have to admit, you provided a good analysis.

One question, are you going to do the same type of analysis on the mailer I received from the CATOH?

‘Safer streets, not Hotel Suites’? C-mon, that is just as unacceptable and misleading in my opinion.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:05:26 +0000

Solid analysis! I wish you could have criticized the money pit known as the Trinity Toll Road that well.

By: Dallas Blog Trey Garrison Fact Checks Pro-Hotel Media Release So We Don’t Have To on Dallas Blogging

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:21:22 +0000

[...] Trey Garrison has fact-checked the Build the Hotel media release — wherein the pro-convention center hotel folks blast the anti-hotel faction’s signature gathering methods as “manipulative, misleading and over the top” — and found it lacking in, um, facts. And, more to the point, he reveals the true identity of one of the folks whining in the release about being accosted by “extremely aggressive” signature gatherers on two occasions. Turns out, Sophia Dowl is owner of Alpha Business Images on N. Central Expressway — whose Web site reveals hers is the company behind the Tom Leppert for Mayor Web site, c’mon. As Trey notes, that is “not acceptable.” –Robert Wilonsky [...]

By: FrontBurner » Blog Archive » Convention Hotel Backers Busted by Trey Garrison

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:13:53 +0000

[...] dug up some good stuff in fact checking the anti-hotel camp’s press release that went out today. A woman quoted in [...]