I love the self-applauding of all politzoi involved.  A politically-driven purchase, which enriched one politzer's cronies, which proved to be useless to its federal purchaser, and cost money to let sit vacant for 14 years, plus costing the municipality considerable amounts of tax revenue, then took three years of exhausting labor by our three congressional politzers to abandon--not sell--and those who lead their own cheering squads hail it as an example of how the system is supposed to work.  Yeah, in these Republican times, I guess it is.