The Seattle King County Vistors Bureau, an umbrella group that represents just about every restaurant and hotel in town, might want to have a talk with its lobbyist in Olympia, Rebecca Bogard. Her firm, Bogard & Associates, also represents The Basketball Club of Seattle, LLC—ie, the Sonics.

The Sonics bill that Bogard is presumably working on would extend the .5 percent food & beverage tax on…wait for it… every restaurant in town. This means restaurants and bars would be funding their competition at an expanded and Yupdated KeyArena. As for Bogard’s other clients—hotels—the bill hits them with a 2 perecent tax increase.