Think Big Sacremento's Open Letter to Seattle Hedge Fund Manager

[TheRemedy360Ressurection]

Letter from Jeremiah Jackson, a member of think Big Sacremento addressed to Seattle hedge fund manager Christopher Hansen who has demonstrated interest in bringing the NBA and NHL to Seattle.



Mr. Hansen,

On behalf of the 99% of us who make up the wonderful mosaic that is the great City of Sacramento, we have one message for the top 1/10th of the 1% who is engaged in actions detrimental to our community:

KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR KINGS.

If you have ever been to Sacramento, you would know that this is a big city with small town values and a big heart, which will fight for the more than 4000 construction jobs, seven billion dollars in economic development and $150+ million in annual economic activity that will be created as a result of the building of a new downtown-based Entertainment and Sports complex.

In this age of historic economic challenges, regardless of where one lives, we should all be working together to create jobs.  Our country has always been at its best when people have come together to work for the common good.  And that is precisely what we have done in Sacramento under the leadership of Mayor Kevin Johnson and the Sacramento City Council.

Today, the entire community, Business and Labor, Republicans and Democrats, the Mayor and the City Council, is working for the greater good of Sacramento.

We are especially troubled that you would be actively pursuing an initiative that you know will short-change our community of badly needed jobs given that your native city of Seattle knows the economic pain and suffering that comes when one city raids another city.  One would think that Seattle of all places would be sensitive to engaging in such predatory behavior.

Given what is at stake for Sacramento and your highly publicized effort to steal our team, we challenge you to come to Sacramento and participate in a debate at high noon on February 23rd at the Oak Park Community Center where you can defend the indefensible and explain the inexplicable: your effort to steal our jobs.

Participating in this debate on behalf of Sacramento will be a construction worker representing the thousands of workers from the Building Trades who have been out of work with unemployment for construction workers in excess of 20%, a current employee at Power Balance Pavilion who will lose their job should the Kings depart, and a representative of our youth community who love their Kings and wants them to stay in Sacramento.

To help prepare you for this debate, we are attaching to this challenge a report prepared by Think BIG entitled Truth or Consequences, which lays bare what is at stake, including documenting the impact on Seattle caused by the SuperSonics relocation.

We hope this report will help you prepare to defend why you want to inflict the kind of economic harm on working people that took place in Seattle.

Keeping the Kings in Sacramento as the cornerstone for the economic revival of the City is really a question of whose side are you on:

Are you on the side of jobs for Sacramento; the future of Sacramento; and the people of Sacramento or are you trying to kill our jobs; working against our future; and anti-Sacramento?

We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento.

Sincerely,

Jeremiah Jackson
Think BIG


LMFAO, what a fucking pussy. If the team leaves it's because of Sacremento's lack of areana, not Seattle, they're leaving whether Seattle is interested or not. Let's not forget the fact that the NBA has gone out of their way to accommodate Sac Town which is the exact opposite of what they did for us. If they do end up moving here I'll feel bad for the fans in Sacremento but i'll have fun laughing at this faggot.

[Sccit]

cant blame him...he really wants to keep the Kings in Sacramento. he did go over-the-top, though.

[TheRemedy360Ressurection]

^ Yeah, and I certainly blame him for for wanting the keep the team. My only point is that he's scapegoating Seattle and blaming people who have nothing to do with the situation. Even if Hansen came out and said "We were never interested" they would still leave if they don't get the deal done. His gripe should be with Sacremento's city council and the NBA, not one of the outside cities that would be interested if it doesn't work out for them, nobodies "stealing" anything, it's their team to lose. All this talk about stealing jobs make him sound like he has zero idea what he's talking about. And if i'm not mistaken they were on the verge of moving to Anaheim last year.

[Sccit]

^ Yeah, and I certainly blame him for for wanting the keep the team. My only point is that he's scapegoating Seattle and blaming people who have nothing to do with the situation. Even if Hansen came out and said "We were never interested" they would still leave if they don't get the deal done. His gripe should be with Sacremento's city council and the NBA, not one of the outside cities that would be interested if it doesn't work out for them, nobodies "stealing" anything, it's their team to lose. All this talk about stealing jobs make him sound like he has zero idea what he's talking about. And if i'm not mistaken they were on the verge of moving to Anaheim last year.

yea, but if Seattle doesn't choose to accommodate the Kings with a new arena, then there's less chances of them moving...not saying it's Seattle or nothing, but subtract one city and that slightly reduces the chances of relocation.

[TheRemedy360Ressurection]

^ Yeah, and I certainly blame him for for wanting the keep the team. My only point is that he's scapegoating Seattle and blaming people who have nothing to do with the situation. Even if Hansen came out and said "We were never interested" they would still leave if they don't get the deal done. His gripe should be with Sacremento's city council and the NBA, not one of the outside cities that would be interested if it doesn't work out for them, nobodies "stealing" anything, it's their team to lose. All this talk about stealing jobs make him sound like he has zero idea what he's talking about. And if i'm not mistaken they were on the verge of moving to Anaheim last year.

yea, but if Seattle doesn't choose to accommodate the Kings with a new arena, then there's less chances of them moving...not saying it's Seattle or nothing, but subtract one city and that slightly reduces the chances of relocation.

Well Sacremento has a March 1st deadline that if they don't pass they're going to be up for relocation. If Seattle wasn't involved it would be the exact same deadline and they would end up somewhere like Anaheim, KC, etc, it's just that Seattle is the obvious choice cause we're the 12th biggest market with a 41 year NBA history. If it doesn't work out with the Kings then the arena is about New Orleans or any other struggling franchise as well as the NHL. Furthermore, Seattle has been losing concerts and events to surrounding areas cause people don't want to hold them at Key Arena. Dude is just trying to put a face on the whole situation and has no basis behind it.

[Russell Bell]

Different situation as far as the sonics and the kings, dont you think?

By the way i think it was shitty of the sonics to leave seattle and i think the kings should stay in sac.

[Hack Wilson - real]

so i guess the Anaheim Royals dream is dead???

[TheRemedy360Ressurection]

Different situation as far as the sonics and the kings, dont you think?

By the way i think it was shitty of the sonics to leave seattle and i think the kings should stay in sac.

Very different, the Kings are in a position to lose their team, and it would happen without all the lies and betrayal that happened here. In a sense I agree, but the league isn't going to expand, and I just want a team back. I definitely don't feel good about having to take someone elses, but like you said the situation is much different here. And Hack, Anaheim is not out of the equation, Seattle just wasn't trying to finance an arena last year so we're getting the hype now, Anaheim still wants them though. However, I would have to think the Lakers and Clippers management would be very opposed to that move. It definitely makes the most sense for them to come here, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen, just gotta hope that the league sees the sense in it.

[Hack Wilson - real]

damn where did TheRemedy go??