The Peninsula Gateway ran this editorial stating that if the new span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge will be given a name (and, really, why would it?), then "Gig Harbor-area people should choose it."

Woah, woah my upper-middle-class friends. Hold on there. Gig Harbor-area folks? Last time I checked, the bridge connects to Tacoma, too. We might have lower property values, a higher crime rate and our city is rarely called quaint like you are, but that doesn't disqualify us from getting in on the naming action, does it?

Unless "Gig Harbor-area people" means Tacoma too. But that would be calling Seattle part of the Tukwila area.

The editorial later says, "We have no idea why state senators from distant places — Ken Jacobsen (D-Seattle) and Dan Swecker (R-Rochester) — feel justified in naming our bridge."

Fair enough. But "distant" is hardly the word I'd use to describe the relationship between Seattle and Gig.

And then later we get this:

(Oke) was an outspoken proponent of the bridge, even when 80 percent of his constituency voted against it. Some would say he pushed the bridge on peninsula residents when they didn’t want it.

Unfair or not, many peninsula residents associate Oke’s name more with tolls than the bridge itself.

Then why do you want to name it?!? Geez, you folks get a Costco, and everyone's head swells overnight.