Stadium News and Speculation VIII | And Now, Anacostia (Mayor@dc.gov or adrian.fenty@dc.gov)

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  1. Shark

    Shark Member

    Mar 12, 2004
    Leesburg, VA
    From the Sunday sports section. George Solomon's column.

    "Excuse me: D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, in his weekly chat with WRC's Barbara Harrison, said RFK Stadium would be the target of a wrecking ball soon after the Nats depart for their new home in Southeast next April. Is the mayor forgetting about MLS power D.C. United, a loyal tenant the past decade, locked into RFK until a new soccer stadium is built? If and whenever that occurs."


    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/01/AR2007090100926_3.html

    Anyone know specifically what the mayor said? If he really said this, then I think it portends that the mayor knows that a deal is in the works for our SSS behind closed doors, and we will know as soon as the RFP window closes.

    ....or am I just reading the tea leaves through rose colored glasses?
     
  2. Z010 Union

    Z010 Union Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 28, 2002
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    I am concerned that he said "once the Nats leave" that would be April of 08. Not 2010 when DC would presumably join NY and Philadelphia in opening new stadiums.

    After the Fenty douche accepted our accolades and applause, he does this?
     
  3. Vasco

    Vasco New Member

    Jun 8, 2003
    RIO
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    OMG, it must be a virus.

    Work in government in DC and you become a total MORON.

    11 seasons, and 5 trips to the championship game, with 4 victories.
    We might not all live in DC, but us coming there helps your tax coffers you MORON.
    So lets be a DC gov worker and Diss them.
    Let's see what Maryland is willing to offer.


    It is time for DC to say fyou and find a suburb that can support a stadium. Maryland would be my choice, and there is a lot of empty land along the route 50/301 corridor.
     
  4. JeremyEritrea

    JeremyEritrea Member+

    Jun 29, 2006
    Takoma Park, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  5. autogolazzo

    autogolazzo Member+

    Mar 4, 2007
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    Bad thing, not a good thing. He doesn't want us at Poplar Point and apparently wants to kick us out the day the Nats leave.

    DC government seems to hate anything associated with success (United) and loves to court losers (Wizards, Caps, Skins, Nats).
     
  6. writered21

    writered21 Member+

    Jul 14, 2001
    Middle of the Road
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    He's a politician, you expected anything different?

    ******** him.
     
  7. CHICO13

    CHICO13 Moderator
    Staff Member

    Oct 4, 2001
    SECTION 135
    Club:
    The Strongest La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    My question is where's the city council in all of this? Why does Fenty get to arbitrarily decide what gets built and what gets torn down? Wasn't the city council a big part of the decision making in the baseball stadium process?
     
  8. Wyrm2

    Wyrm2 Member

    Apr 29, 2007
    Silver Spring
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    The city council barely exists in DC anymore. Fenty has them so cowed that they are afraid of their own shadows. He basically has run anything he wanted to do down their throats, and this would be no different. (That said I think he just misspoke in the original quote)
     
  9. schmuckatelli

    schmuckatelli New Member

    Nov 10, 2000
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    FYP.
     
  10. Jimbo

    Jimbo Member

    Dec 17, 1999
    Washington, DC
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    After the article appeared in the Post about the break down in negotiations between DC and McFarland's group I wrote letters to Fenty, Mary Cheh (Ward 3) and Vincent Gray (council chair). Only Gray responded (more than a month after my letter). He said he appreciated me sharing my views and that he was sending a copy of my letter to Neil Albert (deputy mayor for planning and economic development) so he can provide me with more detailed information about the process DC has undertaken to determine the best use of Poplar Point. I haven't received anything more. Gray didn't take a position on the issue -- he just referred me to a bureaucrat. The only guy who has spoken out is Marion Barry and he is rightly pissed off by the bait and switch, and how he's been out meeting with the community on the McFarland plan only to have the city back away from that plan.
     
  11. John L

    John L Member+

    Sep 20, 2003
    Alexandria, VA
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    Regardless of his personal inclinations about DC United or a soccer stadium, Fenty sorta has to present a "hands-off" approach to this whole process - This next step is the RFEI - This is what should be done for ANY major project

    The proof will be in the pudding ("$40 worth of pudding is a hell of a lot of pudding") - Once we hear the first round of choices and subsequent decisions, then we'll know if Fenty is receiving something under the table
     
  12. Foousic

    Foousic New Member

    Dec 23, 2002
    Washington/Richmond
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    I'm beating a dead horse here but when are we as supporters going to wake up and realize that the writing is on the wall, and this thing is not headed in a good direction. We have visibly made little to no noise on the matter, and in the end I am very sure that we're not gonna get our stadium. Fenty has over the past two months coyly distanced himself from anything having to do with the word "United", including the "United" States of America and the principles that it was founded upon with his bullying, and monopolizing of power in every facet of the districts govermental innerworkings. He is dirty, and I for one would better trust a reformed felon before Mr. Fenty.

    I strongly feel that we could, and should be doing more. Am I alone?
     
  13. Foousic

    Foousic New Member

    Dec 23, 2002
    Washington/Richmond
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    I'm sorry, maybe I'm confused here, but how do you see what Fenty's doing here as a hands off approach? I mean yes, he is being very quiet, and sly on the matter, but he's the only one that really has his hands in it at all at this point.

    Also I would argue that this is not just ANY project, as the land might not even have been transferred at this point had United not spent it's own money on congressional lobbyist's, plus the added support of Elenor Holms Norton.

    What I mean is this. United was promised this land by Mayor Williams. They spent alot time, and their own money to see this thing through, and now at the finish line the organization is supposed to just bow down and allow Mayor Fenty to shop it around with other developers who hand no hand in it's passing???? Is that just?
     
  14. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    I was going to post something nasty -- however all I will say is that nothing that happens in DC surprises me. Saddens me, confuses me, annoys me -- but surprises me? No.
     
  15. BigKahuna

    BigKahuna Member

    Nov 30, 2004
    GA Boy in DC
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    You are not alone...In spite of what the team says, I just really don't think we should sit quitely anymore. We need to be as vocal as possible at this point unless someone can explain to me how it would hurt our effort.
     
  16. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    Most of us DCU supporters don't live or vote in DC, so Fenty doesn't give a rat's ass what we think.

    Are you kidding me? That's not even even enough for two women to wrestle in!
     
  17. Foousic

    Foousic New Member

    Dec 23, 2002
    Washington/Richmond
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    Fenty should care since the intended purpose of the land transfer deal was to supplement a commuter tax bill that never passed. Like it or not the district needs Virginia and Maryland's money.
     
  18. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    Because this isn't speculation about a new stadium. It's speculation about razing the existing stadium when the other tenants leave for their new stadium.

    A related topic, I admit, but different.

    :D

    FWIW, I am having a hard time reconciling my negative feelings about Fenty regarding DC United and my positive feelings regarding his attempt to fix the district's school system.
     
  19. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    ... or better yet, rename this one something clever as number 7 and close the other one, it's full.
     
  20. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    Wait two years and it will be the same BS as usual regarding the schools. Rhee will have moved on and nothing will change. That's the one constant in life, DC government ineptitude, incompetence and corruption.
     
  21. CrimsonChin00

    CrimsonChin00 New Member

    Aug 8, 2007
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    hes a communist, you cant trust any politican, Loudoun County would be my choice for a new stadium.
     
  22. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    The quote that's the topic of this thread was also already brought up in that thread, and discussed there in some detail.
     
  23. skippy

    skippy Member

    Nov 17, 1999
    Alexandria, Virginia
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    You say that like it's a bad thing.
     
  24. tmas

    tmas Member

    Dec 30, 2002
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    As much as I despise Communists, Fenty isn't exactly making the greatest argument for being an exemplary public official.
     
  25. sch2383

    sch2383 New Member

    Feb 14, 2003
    Northern Virginia
    Re: Wash. Post - Stadium comment...

    My dad said that yesterday on WTOP there was a lot of discussion about DC trying to lure the Redskins back to the RFK site, so I guess those rumors are active again.
     

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