SEATTLE - This past week Clay Bennett blew into town, asked the mayor, Greg Nickels, to have a meeting, then left town after issuing a strange proclamation stating that the mayor had something to do with the city, and the basketball teams play in the same city. Gosh, thanks for figuring that out Clay. Maybe next time you want to do something like this try calling ahead of time, they do have phones in OKC that reach wayyyyyyy out to the left coast. Can you really not plan a trip where you are pushing a press release about the mayor of Seattle and not manage to arrange ahead of time to actually meet him? Really?
Call me crazy, but, having the local morning sports radio talk show host bitterly complain to you about the way you've gone about communicating with the rest of the world might be hard for you to figure out (see above). Maybe issuing a press release, getting on an airplane, flying out here, and hoping for a few hours of the mayor on what only looks like a whim, really is a poorly coordinated media and political attempt at pushing the ball forward. It was clumsy.
Stranger yet, why Nickels? What the hell has Nickels got that could possibly get something to happen in this city of that kind of size? Have you seen the tunnel video, because that's what he's got to show for his muscle right now. You're asking the guy that doesn't run his own school district or transit system, to educate the masses, and get people moving on this.
You should be going where the other sports went, to the county. Ron Sims said nearly two years ago that the Seattle Center needed a complete overhaul, to make the entire facility a world class center for the entire county. But the mayor was too busy dreaming of 6 billion dollar tunnels, and a new grassy park for Helpfest, to waste his political capital on that old place.
Whatever you do next Mr Bennett, try calling first.
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