who goes to downtown, first off, they expect us to put up $50 million in security. We are supposed to gte money from the feds, but keep in mind, this is the state that turned down high speed rail. So we are already looking at a real chance we will lose money AS IS.

As far as the geography, The Tampa convention center is on an island, with has a road, and a trolley on that road. Most of the Hotels are linked to that trolley (the same one the GOP wants to kill the funds for.) What that means is that All the Hotels in Tampa could very well grab the GOP by the (censored) because it would be very easy to choke off access to that center. Add to the fact that there will be a lot of GOP idiots driving their SUVs, and you will have chaos, completely regardless of whether Occupy Tampa is active.

Of course, if you make arrangements to be at the hotels closest to the center, than you can ride that trolley all over downtown and laugh at the idiots..did I mention this trolley goes right to the hotel door?, as well as to Ybor city, aka Bar central? You could get drunk as a skunk and NEVER have to drive.

BUT, I bring this up to show why the hotels have leverage. The choice of hotel can mean the difference between getting stuck in a madhouse, and not having to drive at ALL. That is why you make contracts, that is also why, if you break contracts, said hotels could charge a LOT more than 170 dollars a bloody room!

And let's not even get into what will face people who think they can commute from St. Petersburg or Orlando. They will learn first-hand that, even on a GOOD day, the commute in Central Florida is a nightmare of clogged traffic and lousy parking. Of course, the convention will not be a good day, and if they think that they can even find parking in half an hour, they are fools!

If I was a rich man, and this contract fell, imagine OWS getting rooms at the hotel, as they would have a tactical advantage over everyone else. They would not even have to park! Oh well, guess this is what happens when you worship the free market. But of course, we all know that free market means "rule by White Anglo Saxon protestant males who are rich."