| for now, i just want to pass something along to my fellow seattle-ites. my bro jeff just became treasurer of a political action group called the "Sonic Avengers." it's to keep the Super Sonics in Seattle. Here's an article about them and their website. www.sonicavengers.com
Sheee-it:
Sonic Fans to Play the Clay Davis Game
Posted
today at 3:39 am by Damon Agnos
Say what you will of this Sonics team (they're awful), but you can't say they lack passionate
fans. Consider Myer Hutchinson, an Alaska
native who grew up on the Supes and is determined to keep the team in Seattle. So determined, in
fact, that he's creating a political action committee for just that purpose.
Sonic
Avengers PAC will officially come into existence with the filing of its papers
today, and its website should be live tonight. Hutchinson says he already has $1,000 in
donations "just from word of mouth. I think this issue could legitimately
raise $100,000 in six months. Easily. Potentially way more."
The
group's aim is to get the legislature to hold a special session to pass a bill
allowing King County to vote on continuing a tax to fund the public portion of
the recent arena proposal (a little complicated, yes, but that's what the
proposal calls for.). Should such a session not occur, the group would use
issue ads to support the election opponents of those they believe prevented it.
"My goal is not to oust people from office," says Myer, who names
Frank Chopp, Christine Gregoire, and, curiously, Nick Licata among those he
views as obstructionists. (As a City Council member, Licata, generally an
opponent of publicly financed sports stadia, has no influence over the calling
of a special session of the state legislature and has even said that the current
proposal might be a good deal.) "We just want to have a
special session to get this bill passed."
Hutchinson takes great pains
to clarify that Sonic Avengers is non-partisan and not affiliated with the
campaign of any candidate—particularly Dino Rossi, with whom, Hutchinson says, many have
erroneously associated him. Though he repeatedly touts his experience in
politics, Hutchinson
is not eager to talk about particulars. "I'm very hesitant to talk about
who I work for and what I work on now," he explains, offering only that it
involves a dark horse candidate for the Alaska
legislature.
Hutchinson
believes that Sonic Avengers can complement the work of grassroots activists
like those at Save Our
Sonics, with whom he hopes to collaborate. "Those people are walking
around with fists in a gunfight," he explains. With the fundraising capacities
he envisions for Sonic Avengers, Hutchinson
believes the group will strike fear in politicians who value their chances at
re-election. "This," he says, referring to Sonic Avengers, "is a
gun."
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