UPDATED 8/28, 2010. Word is Sacramento Magazine has awarded North Natomas its #1 neighborhood award. Having spent nearly ten years of my life living in North Natomas, I’d like to share a few thoughts on this.
First, the incoming councilperson might want to downplay the award.  Granted, the realty community is probably thrilled about it  (understandable), [...]

“OBVIOUSLY the cop was from out of town. Locals would never leave anything of value unattended in a Natomas store.” – Response to article in Sac Bee stating an off duty cop from out of town had his phone stolen in a Natomas store and the perp was arrested when he attempted to ransom it.

Click me

There will be no campaign conversation today. I am laying low to observe election day and watch and wait for the results. The amount of Ray Tretheway related content here in the past three weeks has been admittedly heavy. Actually I never intended that; the idea to do it daily for 21 days was spontaneous. [...]

Natomas Radio (Audio File Attached!)

Ray sits in his office with a small group of people. Suddenly Staffer2 comes crashing into the room, out of breath, his eyes wide and completely out of breath. He is holding his iPhoneand pointing to it.
Staffer2: SIR! BREAKING NEWS!!!
Ray: Gadzooks! You scared the sugar out of me! !
Redacted woman: What [...]

Cruisin’

In this fictitious satirical episode, Ray and the gang are driving through his South Natomas neighborhood slowly. Ray is waving out the window at people as if he’s a celebrity but no one recognizes him. He talks on the car speaker phone to someone at the same time..

Ray: Yeah well I just saw a survey [...]

I had JUST started playing Billy Joel’s “Captain Jack” when I received an email from a friend with this scan of a mailer that District 1 voters received today apparently  “Captain Jack will get you high tonight.. take you to your special island…”  Can I just say  

Joe Sac Primary Election  Interview

A reader asked if they could ask me a series of questions back and forth on email and suggested I post the resulting interview. I agreed. Here is the result of our exchanges. This reader is not affiliated with any political parties or candidates running for office.
Q: Why do you [...]

Sacramento Press ran an article about how Ray Tretheway considers the registering of a domain name bearing the likeness of his name “identity theft.” Disrespecting every child who has ever been kidnapped and every parent who has suffered tremendous pain as a result,  Ray likened this flap to “an amber alert.” 

MAIL FAIL

Ray sits in his car with his two staffers. Staffer in the front seat, Staffer2 in the backseat on his laptop typing away
Ray: What is so gosh darn private that we can’t discuss it in my office?
Staffer: Well sir we have a bit of a problem with the latest campaign mailers we sent out.
Ray: [...]