06-17-2017, 05:55 AM
At the time, yes. I think attitudes have continually been shifting since then and the nature of the businesses on King have shifted as well. I expect there would still be backlash to the idea, but it would no longer be anywhere close to the non-starter that it was then. That's in the past, though, and the present alignment is a reasonable compromise to the political realities of the day.