Kings Tour Using "Master of Disaster" Clinton Consultant

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The Kings and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's Task Force are doing a bus tour out in the Foothills, to try to sell their ridiculous Railroad Yards Real Estate Scam, er, New Kings Arena of Alkali Flats. They have hired a self described 'crisis communications expert' to run this thing, who the NY Times calls the "master of the political dark arts" for his consistent results at torpedoing any good Democrats, and replacing them with Triangulating Sons of Trickle Downers. True to emulating his consultant peers in the Republican Party, because according to the Third Way the Dems are just too Demmy -like, so they must copy the Other Side, the poor Harvard edjumacated wonker has inflicted a Russo Marsh Tea Party Express imitation production on us to carry the Task Force evangelization team around. Instead of Palin on the bus, we get KJ. If only we are exposed enough, we should be able to feel their pain, and have an urge to send Sacramento about a half billion to build a purple topped entertainment venue, in a flood plain with no parking for thousands of lobbyists.

For about 40 nights of the year, the state legislature can then be entertained a bit closer to the Capitol in bigger, nicer skyboxes.

While abandoning a perfectly good sports entertainment complex, WITH infrastructure, in the same city that is surrounded by nearly new suburbs less than 15 years old. That is closer to the international airport.

Sacramento Bee this am:

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Chauffeured in a dark black bus with neon lighting, leather couches and flat screen TVs inside, Lehane and other members of the task force made the first stop in their 125-mile tour at the Town Center shopping complex in El Dorado Hills.

"We understand there is a trickle-down effect" of building a new arena and keeping the Kings in town, said Debbie Manning, the president of the El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce.

From there, the task force motored to The Fountains at Roseville, where Sacramento Kings dancers entertained shoppers and the team set up a table hawking season tickets.

The group then visited construction crews working on a new veterinary school on the University of California, Davis, campus. The message there was the job potential a new arena would afford those workers.

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There, you see ? One way they are going to save costs is to use veterinary students instead of doctors at the New Digs. Maybe they'll have a few leftover we can use at our empty hospital wing ! This, of course, assumes that there will be any veterinary students at all with the great big UC Davis TUITION FEE INCREASES they're going to get smacked with, because our new assemblyperson and her state senator husband on the ARENA TASK FORCE always vote NO on any TAXES that fund the schools.

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