Note: Please see the end of this article for Joe Sac’s first contest! Yes, there are prizes! Seriously!
From the City of Sacramento web site of Ray Tretheway:
“Welcome to my web page! It is an honor to serve as your Sacramento City Council representative for Alkali Flat, Downtown, Richards Boulevard, South Natomas, North Gate, and North Natomas. Ed note: Ironic that North Natomas is LAST? “..and North Natomas.” How utterly revealing.
“While serving on the Sacramento City Council I am concentrating on smart growth for our city, revitalizing our downtown area, and ensuring that Sacramento is the most livable city in the United States. Ed note: No mention of getting all residents the city services they are paying for. No mention of public safety. No mention of one our country’s most dangerous catastrophic flood risks. No mention of helping small businesses grow. No mention of EDUCATION. Wow. Apparently “smart growth” means saddling North Natomas with 15% low income housing, but sending it the fewest number of police per resident in the entire city. Now THAT is what I call SMART.
“I hope that this web site will assist you in learning about upcoming events and projects that I am working on. I would like to hear your thoughts on how we can make Sacramento a better city. Please do not hesitate to contact me at rtretheway@cityofsacramento.org, or my staff, if we can be of any assistance to you. Ed. Note: all the images on Ray’s web site are of downtown projects. And yes, Ray definitely prefers you always attempt to contact him by EMAIL if possible; after all, it’s the easiest for him to IGNORE.
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Ok, let’s have a little contest! The first person who sends an email to Ray Tretheway and gets a personal response from Ray himself via email (any question of your choosing, but public safety oriented is desirable), gets a free lunch for two at the new Mexican restaurant next to Subway in the Raley’s Center (or somewhere close to you). Seriously. All residents eligible to play!
Post your responses in the comments section below and include your orig email, plus his response, dates, times, etc. Do not state this is a contest in your email. Just ask a question of your choosing and await his response. Send your email as many times as you want. First one commented here wins. PS: Ray’s canned response email does not qualify.
Stiiiiiiiiiiiil waiting little Joe
ROFLMAO!
Sending my email. And I want Mel’s if I win
Ray’s web site is very telling. He would not make a good poker player.
Well, I’m certain he’ll respond to me.
I am still a bit confused, are you to continue the blog and still move, I read the first letter when you said see ya, and then just l saw the new material, either way, great to see you again. I sent an e mail to Ray’s office two weeks ago, no response. What is even more troubling, I have tried for over a year to get the district updates via e mail, with no luck, they said it is a server problem. They have not had the curtesey to call me or let me know if the problem was fixed. Glad the gang tax deal failed!
Hi Charlie. Good to see you too. We have been really torn between staying and going. Was not as easy as I thought it would be because we’re embedded in the community and people have made it very hard on the decision making process (in a good way). I wanted to just up and go, but life is never that easy. So here we are. Looks like we’re not moving this year. Maybe next… or maybe not.. you guys are stuck with me… at least for now.. I’ll make the best of it! I swear it!
Nothin’ doin’ Joe Joe. But I’m holding out hope for my lunch
Oh Joe you have been a bad bad boy!
Just found this site. Love it. Hilarius cartoon. Joe Sacramento should be a local newspaper. I’d buy it
I love how her tongue is sticking out like she’s all focused on this thing she’s doing and nothing else. That’s my fav part of it. Ok and Tretheway’s nose. Classic. Best Sac satire on the web bar none. Any chance of putting in some work for us mid-towners? You *are* Joe SAC after all
-Jerry
My email is in. I’m thinking I will not win
Still no word from Ray. Man, my feelings are hurt…
Angelique Ashby is our winner. She emailed Tretheway about the extraordinarily asinine plan to spend $650,000 to count the city’s trees (you must read about this: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1138494.html) And Tretheway emailed her back from his Sac Trees email address with a soliloquy on trees and why this “count” is needed. Interesting to note Ray Ray did NOT copy all of Angelique’s CC email recipients, though I doubt he even knows how to use email, so no surprise there.
Any way, Angelique gets lunch on me. Thanks, Angelique!
I want to put forth my early bird vote for Angelique Ashby to run for D1 City Council!
It must be because Angelique is famous that she got a response, I think I saw her on TV! *wink wink*
The trees thing is just ridiculous. And Ray’s response is even worse. Angelique- tell me where you’ll be standing so I can sign your city council petition to run!
We should start a drive for Tretheway recall with Angelique our replacement.