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Let Them Hear It Again: HERE WE STAY!

Bumped. This is important. Send your letters if you have not already. -- TZ

We showed the world why Sacramento deserves to keep our Kings. Now let's show the City Council how important this is to us outside the arena.

Below the jump we have a sample letter that we are encouraging everyone to send to the members of the Sacramento City Council, four of whom voted this week to essentially kill the progress, and all of whom will be making critical votes on critical components in the coming weeks. Staff will soon be recommending negotiations with parking operators, and hopefully, a term sheet with one bidder. We need 'yes' votes. That 5-4 vote this week? Way, way too close for comfort. That was damn near the Horry Shot. We need a Bibby Shot to get back, and we need to hit our free throws. (I'm stretching, right? I'm tired.)

Whether you live in Sacramento or Timbuktu, you are here because you are a Sacramento Kings fan. Please help this push to let the Council know that this is important. The sample letter -- which you should absolutely feel free to personalize -- and the email addresses are below the jump.

Let's get loud again.

Star-divide

Dear Councilmember,

I am writing to urge you to support the city staff's recommendation on the proposal to lease parking facilities in order to generate capital needed to construct a new entertainment and sports complex in downtown Sacramento.

Boosting the Sacramento economy should be our No. 1 priority right now. A new entertainment complex at the Railyards would generate an estimate $157 million in regional revenue annually, $100 million of that just in downtown. The local tax base will be increased by an estimated $6.7 million per year. That's money that can help pay the police officers and firefighters our community needs long-term.

We'll begin seeing those returns immediately, as the development of the project could create up to 4,000 sorely needed construction jobs downtown, and development of additional area parcels currently sitting idle could add thousands more to that tally. Building a new entertainment complex also keeps the thousands of jobs tied to arena operation in Sacramento. We can't afford to lose those jobs. The proposed developers of the project have entered an agreement with regional labor groups to keep those jobs local.

This proposal has unprecedented support from labor, from business and from the hundreds of thousands of residents who enjoy first-class entertainment options like NBA basketball, the music industry's top acts and so much more. This is a historic opportunity to help secure Sacramento's economic future, and it's one we can't afford to pass up.

Please join me in supporting the staff proposal on funding a new downtown entertainment and sports complex.

Sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

***

Here are the email addresses to use.

aashby@cityofsacramento.org
jschenirer@cityofsacramento.org
ssheedy@cityofsacramento.org
scohn@cityofsacramento.org
rkfong@cityofsacramento.org
kmccarty@cityofsacramento.org
bpannell@cityofsacramento.org
dfong@cityofsacramento.org

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Comments

Keep writing the letters, this comment is not meant to say don't do it. This is just personal observations of the road we are going down.

Obviously this whole thing would fall apart if the February 14th vote goes south. Personally, I can’t see any way that can possibly happen. February 28th is the big one though. Although you likely got four votes already for it, it’s going to be much more difficult and the most important one of them all.

I dunno if the Maloofs really have a viable place to move next season so perhaps even if the vote goes south the NBA will still do a 60 day extension or perhaps we go into weird desperate hoping the NBA goes to war with the Maloofs on whether they can go to Anaheim or not. Got zero clue on that; however, if you can count up 5 votes on the 28th you for sure get another 60 days to work out the rest of the deal.

After last night

We have to keep them here. Let the flooding begin.

WOOOOOOO GO KINGS

Wait, what is this post about?

Sent!

Here We Stay!

SENT!!

I sat in 119 Row G last night! Right by sign lady last night!!

Last night was easily a top 3-5 Home Kings game for me. The others being the final game against the Lakers last year, and games I went to against the Lakers in the infamous 7 game series.

Get this arena built!

What did Chris Webber say to Grant Napear on 1140 today?...

Im hearing bad things… like Webber was completely rude and was acting like he is all that, etc. and Grant kicked him off… like it actually happened?

Help?

Someone put a link at the end of the game recap
http://t.co/wCrhqHyO

There it is if you want to give it a listen.

It’s not pretty.

Ugh

Ok then

Link

One thing I pray will happen, and very soon after any deal is cut to guarantee the Kings will stay here, is that Grant Napear will be fired in a publicly humiliating manner. GTFOOH Grant.

why are the guys so angry at grant?

im not from sactown, so i dont know whats going on there… but from my point here i like him and cwebb was realy like a child on this interview…

Grant asked Chris why he and his TNT mates provided bad information about the Council vote

(Cheryl Miller, Webber, and someone else erroneously stated that the vote to postpone the arena parking decision was approved) Chris became upset over the question and asked why he was asked about that??? Hilarity ensued…

hilarity or extreme awkwardness?
I am being obscenely sarcastic. ...
To be fair,

How bad was Grant’s rant before that question? The man can go on a tear. I heard it was livid, even for Peaches.

It was pretty bad.

Grant’s rant was all about it, and before that it’s pretty much all he’s talked about and asked people to talk about since the show started. I think that’s what got Chris heated. I think it’s the most viable explanation as to why he got so mad so fast.

I don’t blame Weber in the least. Napear is a total asshole

Listening to CWebb towards the end, it definitely seems like he has beef with Grant.

Kind of annoying now that Grant is acting innocent in the whole thing. He claims that there’s no way that CWebb was listening to the show before hand. But let’s say CWebb was listening, Grant was being his usual self bagging on TNT and CWebb. I would be offended too.

This is Napear’s history catching up to him. I distinctly remember him torching Webber when he first came to town. Anything Webber gives him is long overdue.

And let me guess – after the conversation 1140 screened the calls to allow all of Peach’s sycophants to back him up?

wow your psychic powers are tingling ;)

That’s exactly what happened

Well good to see nothing’s changed in the last fifteen years!

This, coming from the king of bad information
Not defending Chris but

“TNT mates” doesn’t equal “you people”

Listening to it now... let me see..
Grant had rant before that call

Not in the link, so there was probably already a little fire started

Well, I just listened to it..

My opinion is that Chris probably felt like he was being called out by Grant Napear thinking Grant was saying, if Chris Webber was being more “involved” with the Arena, the misunderstanding would have never happened. And then thats what led Chris to saying “Who is the one that went on national TV and told everyone to keep the Kings, to get this done, was that me? oh, yea, it was huh?” … I think Chris went TOO far… but again, I DIDNT hear Grants rant before he called… but from what im getting from you guys, it sounds to me like Grant was saying people shouldn’t talk if they don’t know the information and aren’t involved enough… And when Chris Webber is told he isnt involved enough in SACRAMENTO anytime…thats going to PISS him off, im sure..

Just my thoughts though… I hate what I heard though.

In my opinion, Chris didn’t go far enough. He has every right to call out that asshole in stronger terms than he did. I wouldn’t have been able to be as courteous as Weber.

Good for C-Webb

Napear’s a hack who’s basically tenured into his job…

on the radio, perhaps

But I think he does a nice job with PBP for the Kings.

I do too

I would like him to just be that though. Despite anyone’s opinion on him, listening to him as a PBP guy is better than most and it’s just how, IMO, watching Kings basketball has become. It would be strange to not listen to Grant and Jerry calling almost all of the Kings games.

On another game note: The Lakers got destroyed by Linsanity.
I wonder what the folks over at the golden state of mind feel about this.
I don't know what website you are talking about

however over at Golden State of Lin they REALLY like talking about that guy

Sent!!!!!

sorry im late on it but hopefully this hear us loud

Maybe we should get their address and send hard copy letters?

screaming from all angles?

I intend to be there

but I admit a tendency to wimp out every now and then.
For all of us who are unsure , what is the address of the city council and what time do the meetings start (maybe this should be included in post).

It's on I Street between 9th and 10th. Pretty sure it's 915 I Street.

Would strongly recommend grabbing a coffee at Naked Coffee before because you will be bored to hell.

The session begins at 6:00pm but considering the Parking is the ninth item on the agenda, they likely won’t be discussing it until somewhere around 6:40 to 7:00pm.

boring!?!?

How could it be boring when they’re discussing the kings! Wallywagon what is wrong with you! Have you gone mad! I can’t believe it!

Well, as much as I love having to discuss the status of the 2012 summer pool operations and sewer flow monitoring services ...

Crack babies…Thats not boring!

sent from fu***ing germany
sent

from Stockton.

Sent!

From Washington, DC. West Coast to East Coast. Let’s get this done!

Sent

Born and raised Sacramentan living in MA, happy to help out my team.

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