Greg Nickels…
…has lost his freaking mind.
Hey, these guys own strip clubs, they’re Italian-Americans, and they’re working—through a legal, Democratic process!—to overturn an idiotic Nickels-backed blue law that will put them out of business. So they must be mobsters!
“The clubs don’t make their money off of Pepsi. … I believe that there is organized crime involved in at least that club and perhaps others, and I don’t want to encourage a lot more of them in my city,” Nickels said.
If Greg knows they’re not making their money on Pepsi, and he’s going to toss around charges of organized crime, then he must know how they’re making their money. So if it’s not Pepsi (and titties), Greg, what is it? Drugs? Dice? Bathtub gin? And if these guys are doing something illegal and Greg Nickels knows about, why doesn’t he have them all arrested? Or is the chief of police not taking the mayor’s calls these days?
Perhaps the owners of Seattle’s strip clubs should sue Nickels for defamation. And perhaps Greg’s staffers should institute a four-foot rule—one that keeps Nickels at least four feet away from microphones.
I think that the elder Mr Colac****io's previous convictions for racketeering, etc might be all you need to say that he's connected to organized crime. Kind of by definition.