by Tony the Tiger Hayes

SAN FRANCISCO–Political campaign consultant Jack Davis is no joke, he managed to stop the San Francisco Giants in a 1992 campaign to build a new downtown stadium in San Jose. Davis in one his clever campaign mailers to San Jose voters had a photo of then owner Bob Lurie with a rectangular opening where his nose should have been asking voters to put this on their light switches.

Each time they hit the switch they would say “Flip off Bob Lurie” on the idea on building a new stadium for the Giants in San Jose and the Giants who were campaigning successfully lost their chance to build in San Jose. Considering that move and many others Davis could very well compromise the Golden State Warriors attempts to build at Mission Bay.

The Warriors have committed to buying the land at Mission Bay although they have not officially purchased the land at $30 million as an option and $150-155 million for the land, yet be assured they will have the funds ready when needed to buy the land from Salesforce. The Warriors want to build the arena and two towers that are 120 feet tall which meets the City’s height limits at the waterfront.

Davis who campaigned for former Mayors Frank Jordan and Willie Brown and ran successful campaigns for both. Davis will be at the forefront of the campaign to stop the Warriors from building the new arena at Mission Bay. Willie Brown dropped out from supporting Davis and the Mission Bay Alliance because it would “conflict” with his objectivity as a columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle as he appears in the paper every Sunday in his column “Willie’s World”.

Davis pledged to be very aggressive in this campaign, he will be coming at the Warriors like a bad habit and the key to the cog in the Warriors wheel will be California Environmental Quailty Act issues that are being visited by Mission Bay Alliance attorneys. Davis who will do political consulting who will oppose the new Warriors arena with many strategic mailers to San Francisco voters.

Davis strikes fear in the hearts of many when he steps into any election campaign and his goal here is to get a initiative on the ballot that will oppose the Warriors arena on their CEQA issues which is not limited to traffic issues on overlapping and non overlapping games with the Giants, traffic that would impede emergency vehicles access to and from nearby UCSF Hospital, noise issues that would impact waterfront residents, and live stock or environmental concerns that the new arena or the towers would impact.

Davis is exploring the stopping of construction of the two towers. At issue with the “no wall at the waterfront” theme. Even if the Warriors are within the height limits an environmental impact study is still be being explored to stop the towers.

Davis said regarding lining up attorneys and environmental attorneys, “We have hired the very best CEQA attorneys to go over every line (in the Warriors arena blue print plans filing of Mission Bay). Warrior president Rick Welts said he is committed to purchase the land, “We have financing and we have an ironclad agreement to buy. We are buying the land. Period.”

Tony the Tiger Hayes is a podcast talk show host at http://www.sportsradioservice.com