There you have it folks, straight from Mayor Pat McCrory. The city of Charlotte is building billionaire Brian France and NASCAR a $195m. Convention Center expansion in order to help you, you ungrateful little bastards. So if those hotel-motel tax revenues do not arrive to help pay for the thing don’t you dare bitch about it. Hysterical.

I should turn up on WBT around 4pm today to talk to Tara about this and other related fiscal fantasies which the city had better get a handle on — fast.