It's boxy for a big-city ambassador to be adopted to statewide office, and Republican Ashley Swearengin of Fresno is award out absolutely why.
The San Francisco Giants are accounted to be affective their Pacific Coast Alliance accessory from Fresno to Sacramento, breadth the Rivercats accept aloof told the Oakland A's accessory alliance authorization to booty a hike.
It ability assume that the mayor, a applicant for accompaniment controller, doesn't accept abundant to do with a clandestine company's accommodation to relocate. That would be wrong.
Like every high-visibility mayor, Swearengin is the accessible face of her city, demography the acclaim aback things go able-bodied and accepting the accusation aback things don't.
"Mayors don't accept the affluence of aloof demography positions on issues," said Corey Cook, an accessory assistant of backroom at the University of San Francisco. "They accept to govern."
Chukchansi Park, Fre sno's $46 million, 12,500-seat burghal stadium, opened in 2002, continued afore Swearengin was aboriginal adopted ambassador in 2008. But the stadium, and the money-losing Fresno Grizzlies, accept been a attribute of the city's banking woes and a alternate cephalalgia for Swearengin.
The city-owned stadium, about abounding to about bisected accommodation for Grizzly games, has never sparked the blazon of burghal development Fresno leaders had hoped for. And while the aggregation clearly pays $1.5 actor a year in hire to the city, a 2009 accord that Swearengin helped accommodate provided the aggregation with burghal subsidies that about cut that in half. Alike so, the Grizzlies still owe the burghal about $1 actor in aback rent.
Swearengin still harbors hopes that the acreage about the amphitheater will be developed, and the burghal still needs that Grizzlies hire to advice accomplish the $3.5 actor annual acquittal on the architecture bonds that paid for the stadium.
The ambassador says she's been talking with Giants admiral in an accomplishment to accumulate the club's backcountry leaguers in town. She's additionally talking with the Grizzlies about city-paid improvements to the amphitheater and surrounding area, as able-bodied as the achievability of addition hire reduction.
Unlike Betty Yee, her Democratic adversary for controller, Swearengin has to be out advanced and arresting on every affair affecting her city, alike those she absolutely can't do abundant about. While Yee's job active California's tax arrangement as one of four associates of the accompaniment Board of Equalization doesn't accomplish her abounding friends, she can consistently bandy up her easily to angered taxpayers and say, "The Legislature fabricated me do it."
"Mayors rarely beforehand (to college office) because they accept one of the few jobs breadth they accept a absolute scorecard," said Eric Jaye, a Democratic adviser from San Francisco. "The streets are either apple-pie or they're not. The burghal is accident jobs or it's not. Mayors accept to accomplish absolute decisions every day that are activity to accomplish some bodies unhappy."
Swearengin needs to acquisition a band-aid to the baseball botheration in a hurry, both for Fresno and for her own political future. If the Grizzlies flee, abrogation the burghal with a less-attractive accessory alliance accessory than the Giants' Triple-A team, it won't do annihilation for appearance - or Fresno's basal line.
Speaking in Sacramento aftermost month, Swearengin said one of the affidavit to accept her for ambassador is her acquaintance as a mayor, "where I was the one being who would booty the rap for what happens, acceptable or bad."
Unfortunately, those bad genitalia are way easier for bodies - and voters - to remember.
Title : Giants Fresno rumors authoritative activity adamantine for GOP hopeful Swearengin
Description : It's boxy for a big-city ambassador to be adopted to statewide office, and Republican Ashley Swearengin of Fresno ...