That’s why we need to be all over these Council and Commission guys like white on rice, at least until we can get some people in office who realize that they represent us, they don’t rule us.

The price of democracy is eternal vigilance, even when you’d really rather stay home with the remote.

If the Council had any sense, they would see this as a real opportunity for them to clean house (which to me means start by getting rid of The Mayor) and change up their attitude to be more open to input and transparent in their processes.

They can start by reading the Brown Act.

This ridiculously bad idea would harm every resident of Fremont. It first caught my attention when I realized the traffic it would bring. My husband and I both commute on 680 and the traffic would be a nightmare. Then, after I did quite a bit of reading, it became obvious that our taxes would go up to support this supposedly privately funded (yeah, right) stadium. Throw in to the mix the fact that the quality of life in Fremont would suffer from the increased crime, air pollution, noise pollution, lack of/reduced police availability for the rest of the city before, during and after a game, drunken fans driving through our city after the game, etc., etc. I could go on and on. The real costs are incalculable.

I’m happy that so many of us have awakened! Fremont is no longer a city of suckers to be preyed on by the con artists of professional sports and their willing allies in our city government.

Maybe I live in a different universe. I spent 4 hours going door to door in warm springs and I met 1 person who was for this stadium and one person who was on the fence, the rest against. I imagine it might be a little different outside of Warm Springs, Weibel and MIssion, but that group reprents about half of Fremont so your majority must be not only silent but half-dead.

I find it very hard to beleive that our ‘vocal minority’ was able to push back Wolff et al with his BILLIONS in assets. This man did not become so sucessful by quitting when a few people yelled at him. There had to be something more than our small ‘mob’ to convince this huge force from moving in. I think, in fact it had to be that you are the minority and through PEACEFULL communication of the realities of stadium economics (still not refuted by the city) it woke the greater population, and the power of NUMMI (powerfull, quiet influence) the unstoppable force of money was replelled by the more powerful will of an informed-by-facts majority.