Last night at a city council meeting, Compton officials raised the prospect that the city may need to consider bankruptcy in the near future, which could make it the fourth California city to do so since the financial collapse. At the same time, political campaigns raise hundreds of millions of dollars from deep pockets and celebrities just to blow on mud-slinging advertising.
I wonder what it would be like if celebrities and deep pockets channeled their influence through municipalities to promote electoral campaigns; would any of these cities have gone broke? I'd like to think Dre and The Game would have made the CPT a hip-hop tourist resort town, by now...
I wonder what it would be like if celebrities and deep pockets channeled their influence through municipalities to promote electoral campaigns; would any of these cities have gone broke? I'd like to think Dre and The Game would have made the CPT a hip-hop tourist resort town, by now...
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