What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!

Say it’s not true… to be mocked by a Box!

Box I’m worried. Has anyone told you that insecurity is just oozing and oozing out of you! By the way what was seventh grade like in Germany back in 1937?

Must be real special to have the likes of the always dainty Ms. McDonald and Vinnie Lemon Bacon in your corner to help you out with your insecurity.

Oh and, let me *advise* you that if you want to use it as an adjective, you put the two words TOGETHER to make one – - — as in the example “The bonehead demonstrated a poor understanding of the english language.”

All that said, I am certain that members of our current council are proud to have you as one of obviously staunch supporters !

The point was that Freemont would openly promote a stadeeum, with all of the attendant issues, problems and opportunities – including hundreds of folks exiting the stadeeumm in a condition known as “legally drunk”, having served up many 1000′s of beers to patrons – - – - but would deny a private business the right to sell a few drinks . . . because . . . ???????

You seem to be a much brighter guy than I . . . maybe you can figure THIS one out, too.

Any details of the stadium transaction are speculative and subject to what would have been or will be a significant negotiation. Lew would be a shrewd negotiator and has years of experience with which to finesse his side of the negotiations.

Fremont has it’s council and staff.

Unfortunately, those who would be responsible for forecasting economic risk/reward and then negotiating to a pre-determined outcome, have struggled considerably with matters of much less sophistication.

For example, there’s little reason to believe we possess the sophistication required to work a deal with Lew, when we can’t even figure out how to – early on – identify and mitigate, the parking/traffic concerns of existing tenants and property owners, as opposed to waiting and speculating and frittering away time and money. There was no Pac Com plan unless Catellus and the tenants agreed to it. . . but after months, that one issue which was even discussed openly and VERY early on in local BLOGS by residents, was the veritable straw that broke the deal.

Marty, we can’t figure out how to bill a residential false alarm, and make money doing so, or to accurately project tax revenue from year to year – HOW YOU GONNA PROJECT COST/BENEFIT OF A STADIUM and then negotiate a beneficial deal for the people of Fremont ?????!!!!!!!

Some stadium fanatic will question what these simple little matters have to do with a stadium deal and the answer is that they demonstrate (or refute) our skills at grasping a concept, forecasting its impact and negotiation to an outcome. From these (and other) examples, our grasp of fundamentals is lacking, and there’s no one on the council that is questioning why.

So, using our councils behaviour in past matters as a predictor of what we are or are not capable of, is NOT speculative, and as a result, it DOES fly with me.

And, while we’re sitting on our thumbs dreaming about what might have been and what to do with all that land that is you and others are so quick to remind us is vacant and idle . . . others are already doing something about it – - –

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