Posted on 08/15/2013 12:15:56 PM PDT by matt04
August is usually the time of year when businesses on Martha's Vineyard make enough money to see them through the cold, tourist-free winter. But with the president and his family on the Massachusetts island, road closures are detouring visitors – and their dollars – away from towns near the Obamas' vacation home.
Writing about the town of West Tisbury, the Vineyard Gazette reported that 'the traffic change will keep people away from the village center at the very height of summer.'
'August is our make it or break it month,' Vineyard Artisans Festivals manager Andrea Rogers told the local newspaper, 'So this is the worst possible time of the year to block access. It impacts a lot of people.'
'We’re really in a bad position at a critical time of year ... we’re trying to survive the winter.'
Obama's chosen week away from the White House overlaps with some of the Martha's Vineyard events that attract the most summer tourists, including fireworks nights and an annual agricultural fair.
Many island businesses rely on those summer-ending celebrations to make ends meet.
Gas station co-owner Patrick Jenkinson told The Martha's Vineyard Times that his business has come to 'really rely on this third week in August, especially Fair week.'
'We do as much business in that one week as we do in three weeks in February. But we're way down from what we usually get in sales, more than 15 to 20 percent.'
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The Obama’s have labeled Camp David “tacky”, and beneath them.
Premier Obozo has found yet another way to destroy jobs.
Say what you will, he is consistent.
Cry me a river. No doubt most, if not all these business owners voted for Obama. Now they can suffer the consequences of electing an insufferable narcissist.
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I don’t think that Obama will be welcome on Nantucket next year. There were already complaints before he arrived. Nantucket residents might be very liberal, but they are also wealthy and like their vacations to be a real vacation. They aren’t groupies.
Dukes County (inclues Martha's Vineyard) voted 60.8% for Obama in 2012.
Click here to see 2012 Massachusetts election results by county
YES!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! It’s JUST what those Lefties deserve!!
It couldn’t happen to a better community. Go broke you morons!
Sorry about all that, but his presence at the White House was killin’ the fish.
Their homes are ‘beards’, like their spouses, children and pets.
Think of Denocrat pol’s as itinerant salesmen: ‘drummers’:
If not for their props, samples & little bottles of snake-oil, they would be road bums.
Gypsies, tramps and thieves. SEE: ‘Actors.’
“Why doesn’t Obama go to Camp David...”
Not trendy or up-scale. No chance to see and be seen.
Well, yeah . . . but he’s the King!
Hey, it’s Martha’s Vineyard, that’s where the super Progressives live and vacation. They will just have to forgo a little steak and lobster this year for the good of the collective and the Great Leader.
“make enough money to see them through the cold, tourist-free winter.”
Awww, poor things-pardon my schadenfreude, but here in the snowbird/tourist area where I live, the last four winters have been cold and tourist free-and over half of our businesses have gone broke-thanks to the high gas prices and snowbirds with no money to come south for the winter.
Let the liberals of Martha’s Vineyard eat ground beef and canned tuna instead of lobster and steak for awhile because Obama descended on them like some medieval king on a progress-I hope his entourage eats them out of house and home...
Yeppir. Dunno about ‘12, but in ‘08, they voted 75% Democrat, 25% Republican, & 2% Other.
They may be a bit on the rayciss side, too. 95.7% White alone, 1.6% Mixed, .7% Hispanic, & .6 Black. You’d think they’d get over their “White Privilege” & welcome the diversity.
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