Council fails to reach deal on stadium lease – The Wash. Times
D’oh! None of the eight opposed to the lease have been swayed to change their vote yet. Marion Barry (file photo) is quoted a lot, which strikes me as pointless because everybody knows he is not going to vote for the lease.
If you don’t already read Capitol Punishment you just aren’t a fan. The author Chris Needham is booksmart and routinely provides the best analysis of what is going on with the Nats. Yesterday, he offered some perspective on the whole Nat Gandhi issue and predicted it would blow over by putting the reserve back into the deal; The Post says it has been put back in, so that is one less worrisome thing. Gandhi is not happy about the private financing deal (a pennywise, pound foolish one) being removed though and neither is Council Chair Linda Cropp.
Needham closes with:
All DC would need to do is amend the lease in the Council, which shouldn’t require a super-majority, just the regular 7 votes which would be necessary for final passage of the whole damn thing anyway.
I think I recalled seeing something like “this will probably get approved by as many as 8 or 9 votes or of course it could back to the hell it was in before” out in the Natmosphere somewhere. To that, I am afraid I have to agree with the latter point. Getting the Nationals was making a deal with the devil, where else can it end but hell?
Wasn’t there a movie about this recently?
Curly W provides us with a Who’s Screwing Who? graphic. Excellent work.