The lawsuit by the City against the Sonics basketball club has been tried to a federal judge without a jury for the past week. The Seattle PI today points out that the lease, which is the subject of the controversy,had a clause requiring the loser to pay attorney fees and costs. The paper reports that former senator SladeGorton is being paid at $685 per hour to advise the city and their trial lawyer Paul Lawrence is paid at $420. It…
The newspaper reports that during the lawsuit by the City of Seattle against the Sonic’s basketball organization the following question was asked on cross examination by the lawyer for the city: Q.You understoodthe risk that you would be sitting here today without a new building, without a renegotiated lease, with a lease that obligatesyou to perform through the 2009-2020 season, a lease under which there over $20 million a year operating losses at the time you signed this assumption document,…
Karl Rove brought to perfection for the Bush administration the framing of actions in a way they would be receptive. For example "The Clean Air Act" allowed businesses to pollute. The "Healthy Forest Act" allowed the logging industry to clear cut indiscriminately. The proposed "Clean Ocean Act" would allow free oil drilling with the potential to pollute our waters. George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has written extensively about framing and metaphors. We know, as…