clipped from omaha.com
Fahey changes mind, reappoints Sokol to MECA board
Fahey reversed course Monday and said he would reappoint Sokol to the seat on the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority board. That decision came just days after officials in the Mayor’s Office sent Sokol a letter informing him that he was no longer a member of the board because he canceled his local voter registration.
The mayor had just been told that the donors he was counting on to pony up $43 million in private funds were backing away from their ballpark commitments because of the Fahey-Sokol feud.
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Omaha Mayor Fahey decided to try doing some path clearing by noting that Sokol had transitioned his voter registration to a location in Wyoming that Sokol owns.

To be a board member on MECA, a member must be a voter in the Omaha district. Long story short - Fahey thought he could get rid of Sokol, not realizing that the same people who raised money for the Qwest Center (which a sizable population of Omaha did not want) were going to be raising money for Fahey’s new downtown baseball park.

Fahey’s actions then almost sank his beloved baseball park - which I’m assuming he wants to carry his name someday in the future when he is 6 feet under.

Mao Tse Fahey’s multi-million dollar boondoggle continues to neither impress me or sway me to stay in this city. But if Sokol ever comes up missing - I’d start digging under the new ball park for his body.

(for those in big cities with real corruption, this is about as good as it gets here in the cornhole called Nebraska).
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