Shhh!... Legislature's $371 Subsidy Undermines Central Cities
From:
Dean Sheldon
Date:
May 01 15:57 UTC
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Poll after poll resulted that roughly 2/3 of the state's population did NOT
want to be taxed for a new stadium. Yet the STATE legislature went through the
most convoluted, elaborate contortions to allow the county to tax us anyhow
without a vote. You tell me there weren't 'backroom deals' to make that happen!
The Twins were originally in the city of Bloomington. Then the 'smoke filled
room boys' stole them from Bloomington to 'revitalize' downtown.
You are right . It didn't work then and won't work now. They are all a bunch of
politician who by definition will make any deal as long as they can keep their
cushy jobs.
Dean Sheldon
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Spaulding
To: St. Paul Issues Forum
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SPIF] Shhh!... Legislature's $371 Subsidy Undermines Central
Cities
Dean suggests I forgot about a subsidy of hundreds of millions to the
Twins in downtown. I didn't, because that subsidy is qualitatively
different: