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Name: Shannon Sjol on Jun 19, 2008Comments: As a resident of Myrtle Beach, my tax dollars should be spent trying to promote tourism year round, not to remove the large amount of income that is already coming.Flag
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Name: Lisa Pennachio on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Jocelyn Sjol on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Government interaction in removing bike week is the last straw. If the local people and business owners (like myself) don't like the bikes they can leave during that period of time. I am a business owner and would lose money if the bike weeks were taken away. If people want to come to the beach, spend money and enjoy themselves, who are we to tell them they cannot. THIS BILL IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Colleen Flanagan on Jun 19, 2008Comments: The cancelling of bike weeks should be put to a public vote since the residents will be the ones who have to foot the bill.Flag
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Name: Brian Mullennex on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Dave Prescott on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Keep the Harley Rally and do away with the BBW. BBW is what everyone is really complaining about anyway.Flag
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Name: Mark Hiatt on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Get rid of ABBW!Flag
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Name: Chris Tallon on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I've heard this is when the most money is made. During bike week, not family weeks. Just ask the waitresses.Flag
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Name: William Snipes on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Michael Dunn on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Rather that chase off a major event and attraction for the area, Myrtle Beach should embrace the motorcycle rallies in the same manor as they do other events. Myrtle Beach has chosen to build its economy on tourism. The crowds and noise, along with the dollars that are fed into their chosen economic basis are all part of the package. The city of Myrtle Beach stands to lose the income generated during the spring and fall motorcycle rallies. Any tax increase in the name of banning bike week is inappropriate and discriminatory towards bikers and is thus, UNCONSTITUTIONAL!Flag
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Name: BRENDA BOULWARE on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Gail on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: James Jackson on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: HD Rider on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I think the HD rally should still be held in May and October. Thank you for reading.Flag
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Name: Tim Dunaway on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I am the owner of a condo in Myrtle Beach and pay property taxes.Flag
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Name: Chris Drumm on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Me and my wife will be there regardless along with a lot of our friends with a pocket full of cash to spend everywhere BUT in the city of Myrtle Beach.Flag
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Name: Sandy Hood on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Tammy C Martin on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I attend the rallies every year and also visit Myrtle Beach all year.Flag
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Name: Russell Martin on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Shelly Rowell on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Ken Cogley on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: MThompson on Jun 19, 2008Comments: My family and I attend both Harley Rallies (Spring and Fall) and then also spend a week each year during July.Flag
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Name: Adrienne Cox on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Bad Idea for local businesses. You will lose not only revenue but also respect. Local businesses make their living on tourism and work hard all year to prepare for this annual event that has been going on now for over 30 years.Flag
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Name: Sparklingblueyez on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: James Plumb on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Move the Memorial Day bike week if you're concerned about it interferring with the vacationers.Flag
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Name: Natalie on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I welcome all bikers to my neighborhood!!!!Flag
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Name: Lynne Black on Jun 19, 2008Comments: As this is part of the livelihood of more than 100 people who work with me, I feel we need to keep the MB Harley Week because of the $12,000,000+ that is added to the revenues to various MB businesses.Flag
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Name: Carl Harrelson on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: LuAnna Adams on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Michelle Brown on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Let the bikers stay!!!! Raise the sales tax not property taxes!!!!Flag
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Name: Kevin Beck on Jun 19, 2008Comments: Save Harley week, move bikefest to end of April.Flag
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Name: Ron Grubb on Jun 19, 2008Comments: It is a known fact that the Atlantic Beach Rally is and has been a huge problem for years. The participants in that rally are the most inconsiderate, disrespectful, vulgar, destructive and just downright unwanted visitors to Myrtle Beach. The Atlantic Beach Rally being a four day rally is more costly to the city than the ten day rally for the Harley group. I have not seen one business close it's doors and refuse to serve the harley group of people. A high percentage of the harley people use this time as their main vacation for the year. In reality, 90% or more of the harley people are respectful law abiding citizens and for the Atlantic Beach rally, maybe 10% fit this catagory. The harley rally is a huge "kickoff" for the tourist season for many businesses and for many can determine whether or not they make it financially through the year to the next season. If you are going to be selective as to who qualifies to visit this city, then you should erect "checkin" gates on all roads leading in so you can turn the undesirables back. The only rally that needs to take a hike is the Atlantic Beach rally or as an alternative, force it to be scheduled the end of April when families with children and people who are offended normally will not be here. Memorial weekend is a time when many schools are out across the country and people like to start their vacation and not have to unsuspectingly arrive and have to see the escapades that occur during the Atlantic Beach rally. The idea of denying vendor permits is ludicrous. The harley people do not come to the rally because of the vendors, the vendors come because of the rally. If you have the rally, the vendors help get some of the traffic off the roads. Let's get serious, the business people of Myrtle Beach need the harley rally. KEEP IT!!!!Flag
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Name: Tosha Thomas on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I think you can't get rid of one without getting rid of both. I don't have a problem with Harley Bike Week or Atlantic Bike Week. We need to learn to get along!! Its 2008, its time out for all this. There are more important things to be concerned about than where people are allowed to ride bikes! Besides, if both these rallies leave SC, TONS OF MONEY WILL BE LEAVING AS WELL!!! THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE!!Flag
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Name: Phillip Bourgoin on Jun 19, 2008Comments: To do away with both rallies is crazy some sort of compromise should be made and the laws strictly enforced. At harley week we saw many bikes being pulled over for loud pipes but at ABBW we saw bikes zinging in and out of traffic and between cars and even doing burnouts and the police just sit and watch them...ENFORCE THE LAWS AND THE LAW BREAKERS WILL NOT COME!!!!! Stand up to the NAACP use the tax increase to fight the and show them where the real problem is...... To end the bike weeks I say you need to let it be voted on in november and also let the tax increase be voted on as the way to stop them......Flag
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Name: Michael Elliott on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I ride and live in this area and no one is going to run me or any of my friends out of the area.Flag
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Name: Gary Wagner on Jun 19, 2008Comments: The Bike Weeks bring in alot of revenue for the city, the only way to make up for this loss will be higher taxes on the residents.Flag
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Name: Paula Harris on Jun 19, 2008Comments: myrtle beach bike week is a time honored tradition in my family for years ..I would be dissappointed and hurt if it was cancelled.Flag
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Name: Fred Hyder on Jun 19, 2008Comments: I have been coming to bike week forn twenty plus years. It is my designated vacation each year. Please leave it in place.Flag
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Name: Anthony Piraino on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: JAMES W. MOSLEY on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sandra Thomas on Jun 19, 2008Comments: We go to the rally and spend alot of $$, Along with several other times a year. If my $$ is not good enough for M.B. in May & Oct. Then I we will find another vacation spot, and not return to M.B. at allFlag
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Name: Philip Weber on Jun 19, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Charlie Raptis on Jun 20, 2008Comments: Wow, I'm still in shock. This may be a huge mistake, based on irrational reactions by a few people that want to spot-zone or hand-pick our tourists. The Myrtle Beach economy is based on tourism. It always has been. Sure, the retirees are moving in, and we welcome them, but the 13,500,000 tourists that come here primarily drive our economy. The bikers spend lots of money here and that will be gone. Lots of money. Can anyone calucalte the losses here Everybody loves the beaches, and golfers and bikers and shaggers and business conventions and ALL categories should be welcome here since our economy is tourism based. Our hotels and condo are not full - not at all. May and October will never be successfully marketed as family months. Kids are in school. I repeat, kids are in school - they are not coming here in May and October just because bikers are gone. The bikers are likely to come down anyhow. You can't stop them from coming to town and booking a hotel room. They will congregate where they need to. Prohibiting vendor licenses will not stop them from getting together for rides and sun and drinks where they pretty much want to. The county would be a fool to follow suit, and the City's mistake could be to the advantage to county establishments. I think the County Council is smarter than to spot-zone our tourists and lifeblood. And after all of this, it will cost us money to make the rallies go away Does the city have some sense of 'rob Peter to pay Paul' mentality here You want to raise $1,000,000 just to figure out a strategy to worsen the economy Do a simple cost-benefot analysis and share it with the taxpayers. This is ridiculous. Here is the easy way out for you if you insist on crippling the economy - just outlaw motorcycyles for a couple of months. That won't cost you anything! Of course you'd face legal battles and a voter revolt. I sense the City may face legal battles and a voter revolt regarding this issue anyhow. It's just not right. It's not the American way. It's short-sighted and could deal a blow to the reputation and economy - a blow that might take a decade or more to try to correct later.Flag
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Name: Jayne E.Trudell on Jun 20, 2008Comments: NOT both bike weeks are the same .. The behavior and proof in the pudding is enough whether proven or not. The 2nd bike week is obviously not about motorcycles of any kind. C`mon folks //// wake up!!!! Its about being what the "N" word describes/// showing our city how much disrespect is there... just by the action in how they treat us... I am so sick of this racial bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We , who live here... deserve better treatment. If you can`t treat our city kindly , stay out of it!! If its about motocycles , enjoy , if you want to make a 'black " statement...go away somewhere else to VACATIONFlag
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Name: Carol Cole on Jun 20, 2008Comments: Harley Bike Week should NOT be taken away because of the Altantic Beach Bike Fest participants that: 1) trash the surrounding communities, 2) blatently break all traffic laws; 3) blatently disrespect the members of this community personally and their property ; 4) are openly lude (to be polite) and finally, 5) openly use drugs and drink on public. To compare the two events is INCORRECT, you are comparing apples to oranges. TO think you can get RID of Atlantic Beach Bike Fest is false since, that community and its representives, have already stated they will continue to sponsor the event. (with no regard the cost and damage done to their neighbors and neighborhoods) So the challenge to the City of Myrtle Beach is how to control or limit the unwanted behaviors or it's participants...the easiest thing is to just "get rid of both of them" which is a mis-nomer in the first place. The City of Myrtle Beach has no controll over that. The hard question is how to get the NAACP off Myrtle Beach's back Answer: The NAACP needs to open their eyes and recognize that the behavior exhibited buring the AB Bike Fest is not acceptible, appropriate and needs addressing. NO community should have be subjected to this kind of behavior by any crowd which has now become a MOB. On a perosnal note...What is up with all those cars!!! what is next Its a Bike Fest, the presence of cars, just furthers the notion that is has become one hugh block party...from AB to Surfside. Atlantic Beach has some accountability for this event. Of all the parties involved DO something help stem this continued and now heightened anger towards Atlantic Beach and its participants. This has gone way beyond a FEW rotten apples..its a bushel!!Flag
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Name: Jennifer Kerr on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Alise Nusser on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kathy M. Campbell on Jun 20, 2008Comments: Myrtle Beach Harley Davidson Bike Week has been going on in Horry County for 68 years now...we are not the problem. I did my homework several years ago and know for a fact (at that time) that Bike Week was the singe most income (tax revenue) producing week in the state of South Carolina with the majority of that income benefiting Horry County. Do you really want to loose that revenue or do you want the true problems identified and the current laws properly inforced. It is time to stand...it is time to stop letting outside organizations govern what happens in our town. If our LOCAL business owners, residents and government would stand together we could all benefit from such events. Have we forgotten that TOURISM is our main industry. Running ANY tourist out of our town will be destructive to our economy. If the "implants" don't like the tourism then they should go back up north.Flag