A pretty rad hashtag campaign blew up late Monday as Kings fans and Sacramento residents present reasons that the Sacramento City Council should "#SayYes" to the parking plan item on Tuesday's City Council agenda. The item to be voted on Tuesday would winnow down the list of qualified bidders for the parking contract and essentially kick-start the bid process on that end. In two weeks, the council would be expected to come back with a deal to be approved.

Let's hear your #SayYes reasons in the comments. We'll tweet some of them out from @sactownroyalty, which you should definitely follow if you are on Twitter and love liberty.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and as such, Sactown Royalty has prepared some Kings-themed Valentine's Day cards for you to print out and hand to your loved ones! Enjoy.

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Bumped. This is important. Send your letters if you have not already. -- TZ

We showed the world why Sacramento deserves to keep our Kings. Now let's show the City Council how important this is to us outside the arena.

Below the jump we have a sample letter that we are encouraging everyone to send to the members of the Sacramento City Council, four of whom voted this week to essentially kill the progress, and all of whom will be making critical votes on critical components in the coming weeks. Staff will soon be recommending negotiations with parking operators, and hopefully, a term sheet with one bidder. We need 'yes' votes. That 5-4 vote this week? Way, way too close for comfort. That was damn near the Horry Shot. We need a Bibby Shot to get back, and we need to hit our free throws. (I'm stretching, right? I'm tired.)

Whether you live in Sacramento or Timbuktu, you are here because you are a Sacramento Kings fan. Please help this push to let the Council know that this is important. The sample letter -- which you should absolutely feel free to personalize -- and the email addresses are below the jump.

Let's get loud again.

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From the FanPosts with minor edits. Awesome work. -- TZ

With the Sacramento Kings visiting the East Coast on their upcoming road trip this week and having the knowledge that most of those readers of StR are not from that area of the country I felt a glossary of terms would be helpful in adding to the flavor of the visit to the self proclaimed home of NBA basketball, NYC. Add these couple of dozen terms to your lexicon:

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The Kings went 2-2 this week, and criticisms aside, that's a more than solid week for our Kings, especially considering the victory over the best team in the West.

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