Comments on: ‘Secretariat’ film races past Virginia

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:56:25 +0000

Answer to James. You don’t have a clue and I’m sure Bob is a great guy, but I’m in the film business, located in Texas where we’ve just passed an incentive program worked by both sides of the isle. Texas is controlled by “conservatives” not “liberals”, the sponsor of our incentive “Bill” is a Democrat. So I’m not sure who comprehends what, but I do know people that think everyone else should think like them generates the real problem. Lets work together for the common good, that means business has to profit and grow, and people have to work for businesses to feed, cloth, pay for health insurance and educate their families, just like all of us in the film /entertainment world we need the incentives to keep our jobs and create new business for new jobs.

Thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:48:17 +0000

So the goverment spent $1.25 on John Adams and got $81 million dollar immediate economic impact. I guess somebody wasn’t doing there job, don’t they usually spend $81 million and get $1.25 million in economic impact. I guess whoever usually makes these decision was on vacation and someone who doesn’t have a political agenda made that decision.
Well I guess they got back in time to stop that $800k going to the Secretariat film. Who knows that might have produced $100 million in economic impact and if that happens we might get out of the economic recession before they can get all there social programs in place.
“I am from the Goverment and I am here to help.” Yeh Right

By: james

james — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:54:35 +0000

This is yet another reason to vote for Bob McDonnell. Liberals do not comprehend that in today’s world you can have all the advantages, but for business to come here it’s the cash that talks. As long as liberals run this state we’re not going to get business like this. It’s the same way with corporate business relocation outside of Northern Virginia. It’s easy to recruit to NoVa because of DC. NoVa is why Virginia gets these awards about best places to do business. But we could get twice the business we get outside of NoVa if the liberals would wake up and start putting some real cash into business recruitment.

By: ng.morris

ng.morris — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:23:17 +0000

With a family member who works in film making in Virginia, I am very much aware of the impact Virginia’s non-competitive position has had on those who work on films in Virginia: its driving them out of the state or out of the field, to seek employment elsewhere. Some are trying to “work” out of Virginia, but may eventually relocate out of the state. This will drain the state of an imporant film making resource, compounding the problem. As reported in the article, movie productions bring in milions of dollars of revenue to the localities where they work. Film makers and many other states understand this. That is why the states offer incentives. Why Virginia has failed to stay competitive, I do not understand. Aside from those who work directly on film productions, a number of Virginia businesses…hospitality, retail, building materials, etc… have lost out.