St Louis Blues Cardinals logo shirt

St Louis Blues Cardinals logo shirt
Long story short, I led the St Louis Blues Cardinals logo shirt in showing support to keep the Kings. I started out attending city council meetings by myself and no other Kings fans or supporters were attending. In December 2011, Think BIG noticed me and asked some of us grassroots organizations to bring at least 20 to the city council meetings. I was the only one to produce 20 and we were organized. I made it grow to 40 to 80 to 100 to 120. Not by tweeting or blogging. I didn’t have a platform. I simply reached out to people one by one asking them to join me. Many were afraid of public speaking and I turned that weakness into a strength by having them wear our white T-shirt. Optics inside the council chamber was important for political cover. Keeping the Kings in Sacramento was about politics and money. When the NBA announced they voted to keep the Kings in Sacramento, the city council members and city staff who negotiated the arena deal all thanked us. They specifically told me the way I recruited people to show up in numbers was like I was a politician knocking on doors to gain their support. They also said by showing up in huge numbers we made their job easier to vote yes and easier for the staff to do their job in selling the arena term sheet. We also wanted to make sure we were supporting a fair deal for the tax payers so they and the general fund would be protected. We used a theme of bigger than basketball (jobs, revitalizaon of downtown, economic engines in downtown and a reuse of Natomas, etc). They also thanked us for standing by them when no one else did after George Maloof said the arena deal was off and to look into renovating ARCO Arena (it will always be ARCO to me). Others in support in keeping the Kings said they don’t care where the Kings play as long as they remain in Sacramento. Not us. We said if a new arena is to be built, it must be in downtown. Otherwise no city dollars should be used. We earned major respect from the city on taking that stand. We also discovered the opposition were using multiple versions of their petitions and had errors too. We shared that intel with the city. They said we struck gold and to keep that a secret so they could waste their time and resources. We also knew that the city charter was in play too and on our side. We also discovered the opposition’s mystery sugar daddy was Chris Hansen. We went to his office in San Francisco and the next day he apologized. He is now out of favor with Seattle politicians. The opposition always called us out because they saw us as a threat. We got yelled at and poked at the Farmer’s Market while doing the petition withdrawal. We knew it would do nothing but it was more of a distraction of what we really knew and kept as a secret. The Kings recognized the work we did and the rest is history.

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St Louis Blues Cardinals logo shirt

Thank you! I’m pretty sure water is good, we’ve had enough precip of late and I check the St Louis Blues Cardinals logo shirt. Nutrition should be good as I planted in a compost mix. The temps have been up and down with some days of very cool weather. That said the tomatoes seem to be doing okay as most of the larger ones have fruited. Maybe the problem is I look at them too often.

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