Comments on: Sacto To Pawn Parking For Arena https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14677 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:01:52 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14677 You people are right.

And sorry for stinkin’ up the joint with all the double posting and all those youtubes.

But ya gotta admit they were funny…er…at least some of them.

]]> By: Rex The Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14676 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:56:20 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14676 It is hard to believe that mayors are still trying to give away the farm, and not THEIR farm but other peoples money, to their buddies who own these pro sports teams.

Mayor Sanders in San Diego has been trying to give away over a billion dollars of taxpayer money in San Diego to the Chargers for the last 6 years, while the taxpayers are 100% against it and the City is bankrupt. Yet he is still trying.

]]> By: Ronnie_XXIII https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14675 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:35:53 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14675 Mayor Kevin Johnson, who in his first month on office tried to get the city council to give him “strong mayor” authority, is hell-bent on getting his basketball stadium. Let’s say that Kings fans will come to downtown from as far away as Davis and Chico and Stockton. Well then why, oh why, Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council (I VOTED for you, Darrell Fong), doesn’t your faith in the project translate to the direct beneficiaries paying for this downtown debacle? Why do we have to essentially give away land owned by taxpayers, along with the parking revenue generated for 50 years (might as well be forever)? Put the price of it on the heads of the NBA, the owner of The Kings (the Maloof Bros.) and the fans who supposedly will attend the games of that pathetic team.

There are 2 things about this shady deal (to date) that we can be sure of: 1) Sacramento’s population – the people who directly or indirectly pay the property and utility taxes – has shrunk to about 450,000. There is no way that such a small population of such a financially stressed city is going to be able to afford a half-billion dollar development of downtown. Any business owner knows that you build where people ARE, not where you wish they would be. City (taxpayer) participation in this looming land grab will guarantee deficits for the foreseeable future, and a continued erosion of city services and increasing taxes. And 2) The Kings are leaving Sacramento whether they get a new stadium or not. That’s why there are no early termination penalties upon them in this deal. A bustling, growing city of 700,000 or so, having emerged from Depression II much earlier than Sacramento will, will come a-callin’ on the door step of the Maloof Bros., with sweet smelling tax incentives and all manner if promises. And they’ll leave us. Let them go! Can you say “Al Davis”? Sure ya can.

It must be nice to have a one-issue mayor as your friend. The 15,000 homeless who survive in this city, and the countless families who are one financial stutter away from homelessness themselves (and who do NOT need more property and utility tax rate increases to pay for welfare for billionaires) wish they had it so good.

]]> By: CalWatchdog https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14674 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:49:58 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14674 I also wrote incessantly about the state building sale – it was such a stupid, irresponsible deal, the boneheads who thought it up should have been fired. http://www.calwatchdog.com/2010/11/11/state-property-sale-costing-taxpayers-millions/

Katy

]]> By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14673 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:01 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14673 I wish this Brown would go away instead of proposing another tax increase http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=G97nEl7UEZk&NR=1

]]> By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14672 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:20:22 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14672 Some Jerry Browns dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QguPS_iwgDg

]]> By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14671 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:20:04 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14671 Maybe next time they should just forget the cake and just sing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3l1JatunU

]]> By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14670 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:19:44 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14670 And the next thing you know things like this happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfI5hDutMg

]]> By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14669 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:19:25 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14669 Yeah Mr. Wonder Dog. And who needs a stadium anyway. It will only bring trouble like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1jHCox4Mq8

]]> By: Bob https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/05/sacto-to-pawn-parking-for-arena/#comment-14668 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:19:09 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=25857#comment-14668 Yeah Mr. Wonder Dog. And who needs a stadium anyway. It will only bring trouble like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1jHCox4Mq8

And the next thing you know things like this happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfI5hDutMg

Maybe next time they should just forget the cake and just sing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3l1JatunU

Some Jerry Browns dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QguPS_iwgDg

This looks just like Brown http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=G97nEl7UEZk&NR=1

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