STANLEY, Idaho – So I leave town for a few days, and now everyone is pointing polls and fingers and everything they can get their hands on about the stadium project.
So it goes I guess, and we are leaving Stanley today, headed to another off-the-grid locale the Mrs. 5-at-10 found with picturesque scenes and sketchy WiFi.
Also, so great comments yesterday that I did not see until well into the evening. I will circle back on most of them. Deal? Deal.
Giddy up.
Stadium kerfuffle
So Weston Wamp and his supporters who are assuredly not supporters of the current new plan for the almost $80 million new Lookouts stadium fashioned a poll.
Polls were a lot of things.
Scientific is rarely one of them. (Side note: The final class I needed to get out of Auburn was a public administration course on reading, deciphering and digesting information from polls. Heck, I think learning to speak Polish in a quarter would have been easier. So there’s that.)
The current Hamilton County mayor – who Weston all almost assuredly follow in his wing-tips – and the current Chattanooga mayor took umbrage to the poll and made sure their views were voiced.
Both Jim Coppinger and Tim Kelly called Wamp’s efforts with Spry Strategies a “push poll” and claimed for context and clarity in regards to the questions. Here’s more – including the questions – from this paper’s David Floyd.