This is what it looks like when a liberal Democrat is whoring for a new stadium.

BTW - check out this link

http://www.djc.com/special/design95/10002590.htm

They didn't just "remodel" the Coliseum in 1995 by putting in new seats and a coat of paint - they demolished it.

This is it. Ron Sims has crossed the line into that realm where the quote which comes to mind is one the late Hunter S. Thompson applied to former Senator Hubert Humphrey, while he followed him around on the campaign trial in 1972.
"Hubert Humphrey is a tired old hack who should be sent out to sea in a bottle with the Japanese current," said the man who popularized Gonzo journalism. So too now could the same thing be said about King County Executive Sims.
Listen to this doggeral, from the editorial in today's Seattle Times, "Let's talk about a dynamic new relationship between government, business and the arts; one that deeply reflects our values and creates the kind of environment that individuals and families from all walks (of life) will flock to without anticipation, and with their dollars."
First, I know that KC Executive Sims makes a whole bunch more money than most of us. But he needs to grasp that no one goes out on a Friday night to flock anywhere without anticipation. People I know, figure their budget, what they can afford and do that. This man lives in a dream world.
I can still recall watching KC Executive Sims roll out this same nonsense on a stage in front of what was then the Washington State Exhibition Center in the fall of 1999. The building, now tagged the Qwest something-or-other hall now, sets between Safeco Field and Qwest field, signs that these "dynamic new partnerships" have their limits after all. It was not yet open but Mr. Sims went into his song-and-dance about those partnerships and how it was going to change the face of Seattle.
Well, to a degree it has. There is no more Mars Cafe, Belltown is so upscale condo owners are using prior restraint against club owners whose club might offend them. And yet, we get people in government who think the proper role of government is to build a new stadium for a basketball team; and then, overhaul the entire area around it and pass the cost onto the taxpayers with a shill about "private-public partnerships."
Of course, once you have the yokels stymied by moving the shells around, you tell them that another tax isn't new, since it is only a continuation of the old one.
Look, let's just stop taxing ourselves for every new piece of entertainment we think some goober on the Eastside might want. (And Defman 23, that might include you.)
Does anyone have a bottle large enough to stuff Ron Sims into?

The Sonics should relocate to Tacoma and adopt a gladiator-sounding name like The Romas.

If they rename to The Romas, will their mascot be a chariot riding tomato?

Definetly sounds like someone from the Stranger wrote that op-ed. Oh wait...Sandeep? Hello? Sandeep?

At least Ron is finally getting good press from the Stranger again after the whole Rachel Bianchi campaign manager incident. Connection to anything Bianchi is bad news with Mr Editor. So much so that he told people to vote for Christine Gregorie over Ron Sims because of gay marriage issues. Geez!