A week ago, if you were real quiet you could hear the air squealing out of the arena deal’s tires. Now, you basically have to cover your ears to block out the sound of its rims grinding:
Representatives of the Sierra Club and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association called an afternoon press conference to demand that the latest arena site plan and proposal … be made public. … Sacramento County Supervisor Roger Dickinson called the demand for public review “laughable” since the documents are simply draft proposals that have yet to receive a response from the Maloof family. … “It’s a laughable request made purely for campaign purposes by the opposition,” Dickinson said. “As we’ve seen over the past several years on a number of occasions, negotiating in public has not proven to be very successful,” he said.
Successful for who, exactly? In Roger-speak, doesn’t that mean that when the people know what’s really going on they frequently won’t go for it? Does he really think that a proposal our public officials are making on our behalf to a private company is nothing we need to see?
The Sac Rag 
I appreciate the paternal instinct of our politicians to shield us from unpleasant things like facts and information. It keeps me and others from having to hold “opinions” about political issues, which is really helpful since I can barely spare a minute lately since I started separating out stuff on my Itunes as either in the genre of “pop-vocal,” “swing” or “lounge.”
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