So how much you want to bet? I’ll meet you at NUMMI and you can watch me go through the gates with my NUMMI badge with my picture on it.

“One-way contact between the city and NUMMI” – that’s the way our city administrators like their communication; all one way, from them out, not from the outside in. Outside input, particularly from taxpaying residents, can be so distracting and disorienting.

>>Hey, Marty–

Thanks for your note. I am aware of the Fremont city manager’s comment. My sources for my column were obtained on background, but I can tell you that they included someone very close to the A’s ownership and someone connected to the Blue Ribbon panel that is gathering facts about the A’s ballpark situation with the cities of Oakland, Fremont and San Jose. Both these sources told me that in their dealings with the situation, they had been told that NUMMI was indeed informed of the latest Fremont proposal, but only after the proposal had been formulated and the announcement prepared. In other words, it was a one-way contact between the city and NUMMI. If you have different information, I am always interested in being fair and presenting all sides. For your information, NUMMI has not contacted me to contradict anything I had in the column. Hope that answers your inquiry.

I appreciate you reading the Mercury News<<

I have never said NUMMI have support the A’s move to Fremont. We are still looking at their proposal and do our own studied.

I contacted high speed rail authority about making high speed trains at the NUMMI plant. They told me that the NUMMI plant is just too big.

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