Why this matters: he lead on the political side of the arena deal. If he were to win then we could reasonably assume he will continue to lead on our issue.
This sums it up:
“I like Tim,” Council Member Tom Rasmussen told The Stranger earlier this year. “He does his homework… He would make a good mayor.”
True. Tim Burgess will be painted as “conservative”, which he is. In contrast to McGinn, that’s likely going to be a positive attribute.
Good luck to you, Tim.
Free advice, not everybody will like all of your policies, but an electable majority will like who you are. Be yourself.
Read the rest of The Stranger’s report here:
Tim Burgess Is Running for Mayor by Dominic Holden - Seattle News - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Have a great day,
Mike Baker
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seeing that picture brings back some baad memories. i went to college in baltimore and used to attend colt games during the final phases of that franchise’s destruction at the hands of owner bob irsay. . . relations between owner & fans was irreparable and the few fans who showed up were bitter and sad. . . even though attendance wasn’t horrendous (they averaged >40K per game in the last season) on average, the last few games looked like that. . . what a depressing sight for the poor sacramento fans, who probably have more pain ahead of them thru no fault of their own.
don’t get me wrong. i want the kings to become sonics2 (w/out the magoofs). but i feel for those guys, as i know you all do, too.
pro sports is a tough racket. but as hyman roth says, “this is the business we have chosen.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/coyotes/2012/11/27/glendale-council-vote-coyotes-lease/1730551/
Not sure if anyone saw this, but looks like the coyotes are off the market officially.
Yeah I saw that on Twitter last.
oops should say last night, lol
Supposedly the MaGoofs have a deal worked out with Virginia Beach.
http://blogs.wavy.com/2012/11/27/va-beachkingsarena-details-worked-out/#.ULWVwdREJ8U.facebook
It will get interesting with both McGinn and Burgess (and likely Harrell) running. All filled roles and were supporters of our issue. All are good guys.
I love how the Virginia Beach deal is “All worked out” except that they need to pay for it. They need to go to the state government for $150M. Of this $80M will be used to offset relocation costs (I think the relocation fee will be greater than $40M and it does not address the loan the Maloofs have on the property).
That leaves $70M that the state contributes to what will be a $400M arena….So does the writer think that the maloofs are going to put in another $370M? They certainly don’t have city council approval and the meetings I have seen show that they don’t even have basic support.
These writers don’t understand how big this thing is. They report every spreadsheet proposal as the deal being done. They are just beginning in the process, not just finishing up.
Feels good to be ahead of the curve.
When I saw the VB headline I thought “Come on! Are we seriously being passed over for VB!?” But then after reading the story and reading Chris Daniels comments about it as well as your own analysis Brian. I’m just wondering why the media is reporting this as if everything is a done deal?
It also got me thinking if the NBA views us as the NHL views QC and other places in Canada like Hamilton. Where they are holding out for expansion because they know those places will pay up big time for a franchise.
I will keep posting when somebody announces and what their position is on the arena. Another person has entered the race a few weeks ago, I’ll reach out and ask his position.
If they all are proponents then great, I will stop posting it.
I gave it the catagory Political Animals.
I love the VB story. It’s so MGM 1930′s “let’s put on a show”.
The Maloofs are really trying to stay in the game. Could mean a 5 year wait if this somehow comes through.
I think it is interesting Stern hasn’t even addressed the rumors of the Kings moving the VA Beach.
They think they have it all in the bag in VA, but really, have they thought about the BoG vote? Do they honestly think the other owners will vote to move the Kings there?
Like Brian said, they have a lot of financing issues that have yet to be addressed-who is going to pay off the Maloof’s loans to the city and NBA? Who is going to pay for the other chunk of the arena besides the state-if they even approve spending $150 million?
Lots of hurdles left to be crossed over there and many key questions still left unanswered. As leBleede said, it feels great not having those types of issues hanging over our heads anymore. The only question we have left basically is “Who’s coming here and when?” If the EIS comes back a-ok.
I kinda thought Clark would throw her name into the hat pretty soon too.
Burgess has a good shot to land the job, I think.
Agreed. I hear from unreliable sources that Clark might not run. That might be true this time around.
Will Ed Murray run.
We could end up with Burgess v Murray in the general. Both fiscally moderate.
I really suck at WordPress, can’t even figure out how to add the avatar LOL.
It’s a Gravitar they use, linking your emal to an image.
https://en.gravatar.com/
Thanks Mike … I’ll see if that works.
Me either Xteve. I even added one on a separate website Baker provided, no luck.
the reporting on this issue seems so naive. the headlines always state something like “the deal is done” “virginia beach arena approved” but when you bother to read a paragraph or two it becomes clear these guys are absolutely nowhere near getting this thing locked in. how is something done when they seemingly have no way to pay for it? do the maloofs own a VB newspaper or something? is their cousin the editor? it seems pretty clear theyre trying to use this VB thing as leverage.
does anyone know if the arena drawings being released on friday are going to be of our specific arena or just more stock place holders? there has been some confusion on this in the past.
This is all the info the Times had in their article:
“The arena design team released conceptual drawings earlier this month of a 725,000-square-foot arena that seated 18,000 to 20,000 people. The detailed architectural drawings are expected to be released Friday.”
yeah i saw that. hope its what they say it is but have a feeling they’re misreporting what will be shown on friday.
Mark my words. . .
By the time VB is ready to go after a team will be about the time the Thunder is ready for a new arena.
Chew on that, OKC.
it sounds to me like va beach is in the position we were in last february as far as their process goes. the mayor has a plan that he thinks will fly it has not yet gone to the city, county, or in this case state for revisions and possibly approval. that we be like saying we were “ready with an arena” last spring. there will undoubtedly be detractors in the virginia political process that will not feel like this is a done deal. plus, i’ll say this every post, the nba would not want a team temporarily playing at old dominion in a building smaller than hec ed…
Mmm, more like 6 years ago with the Renton plan. Kings just need the state to support the arena and the city to support the arena and then some subsidy to pay them for the pleasure of providing the team.
The Seattle process on this last go round was the city not going net-negative in order to consider the proposal.
Kevin Love is awesome, I don’t even bat an eye when he has over 20 rebounds. The Wolves are going to be tough if Derrick Williams can turn into a quality starter and Rubio gets healthy. Pekovic is putting up really solid #’s and Kirelenko is back to stuffing the stat sheet. They remind me of Memphis a bit - quietly building out a super solid squad.
Still can’t believe Kahn didn’t lock up Love for as long as possible.
So do the VB rumors cap what was an awful weekend in Seattle sports, or start a brand new awful week in Seattle sports? Been so bad recently I don’t even want to look at a sports page. Better than getting upseat really.
The VB rumors are a positive, Sofa, not a negative. For the battle-hardened Sonics fans of Seattle, watching VB prepare to court the NBA is like watching a toddler learn to walk.
It’s really fun.
Because we’re DONE with that. We already know how to walk and we don’t have to deal with that awkward, frustrating sh!t ever again.