The Bee ran a set of responses from the mayoral candidates on questions regarding the Kings' arena situation. With Kevin Johnson streaking out of the picture in a blaze of butane and humiliation, Heather Fargo's a shoe-in for a 47th term as Sacramento's mayor. Here are her responses to The Bee's questions.

I won't even discuss the first two answers, which are beyond depressing. (OK, I lied, I will discuss them: Only if there's a plan The Bee supports?!?! Are you f'n kidding me? The eternal mayor of the city needs the local newspaper's approval on a funding mechanism for a private development?!? I pray that's a typo. And voters did not say 'no' to sharing in the financing … they said 'no' to a very specific and very flawed proposal which even the Kings organization itself did not support. I understand the art of the pander; I work in public relations, for goodness sake. But this is an absurdly absurd answer.)

The one question offered in which the mayor's response actually matters — whether the candidate would support the city being involved in infrastructure and tax incentives (as the city is in numerous other projects — downtown condo towers, manufacturing plants, etc) — Fargo gives no response.

I'll give my standard "the arena isn't the most important thing in this race" disclaimer here. But it's a shame KJ thought he could slip through this race; because he entered the thing, an actual, electable alternative to Fargo never materialized. Awesome.