Let’s clear something up: I’m not that Ron Judd!
It’session not me.
That dowdy Ron Judd who has been in the word once again, flacking as far as concerns the governor about the proposed tunnel to re-establish the Alaskan Way Viaduct, is an impostor.
We’ve been over this before, but some people — including a few who fired off e-mails to The Times be unconsumed week — proved once again that they just don’t get it. So in the present state’s a statement for the record:
•The Ron Judd involved in the viaduct-replacement project is a senior adviser to Gov. Chris Gregoire. Before that, he headed the King County Labor Council. He was a member of a board that helped plan and build Safeco Field with taxpayer money, among other things.
• The Ron Judd prior to you right a little while ago is a older adviser to no one. He’s been a newspaper hack on this account that a long time. Before that, he was in college. He was involved in a losing guerrilla campaign to keep Safeco Field from essential being built with taxpayer money, among other things.
Make in no degree mistake: The other guy is a fine fellow, plane though he is oft referred to by mutual acquaintances as “Ron Judd the Lesser.”
But I have enough problems without vital principle blamed for be it what it may stands in the place of the soon-to-fall viaduct — especially if it’session a tunnel by a price tag even now above $5 billion.
Since the other Ron Judd already has selfishly refused to change his name, in that place’s only one clear solution: One of us is going to have to relocate to Oklahoma City. And it isn’t gonna be me.
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