Looks like the stadium deal is done. Ok I can go back to being a fan and trying not to think about the $77 in public subsidy I’m getting from the taxpayers every time I buy a ticket.
For every game.
For the next 30 years.
Gov Dufus called the legislators heroic for giving over half a bil to the countries most successful sports and entertainment franchise.
Heroic.
I shit you not.
(gawd do I love that phrase, best thing to come out of three days of pre-dawn rants, I get to use it in my blog!)
He-fckg-roic.
*sigh*
May every incumbent politician get unelected in Nov. remember kids the entire house and senate in Minne is up for reelection. This entire legislative session was a colossal waste of time with amendments, gun laws, eroding women’s rights, and not one fn thing to help with any real problems.
*sigh* again.
I can’t pop the tots fast enough.
Good news for me is I don’t have to get I up at 445 anymore to write blogs about news that breaks after I go to bed. Which at my age is not long after the street lights come on. Or when the Kings Buffet early bird special ends, which ever comes first.
*sigh*
And *yawn*
Sadly we’re in this position because Emmer was a douchebag and our state is full of liberals who think voting Democrat is like going to church on Sunday.
Sorry, this was a republican led house and senate. Tea Party is not really about spending it’s about abortion, gays and guns. That’s it.
Yeah, this wasn’t a partisan issue, because the support and the opposition were on both sides of the aisle. For example, in the Senate, you had Dave Thompson arguing against it at the same time as John Marty. When’s the last time they agreed on anything? If the Republicans as a party had wanted to shut this down, they could have.
I thought the geographic breakdown of votes was very interesting. I’m not sure why the support was so strong outstate — are there just more Vikings fans there? You’d think people who lived closer to the cities would want it more, but I suppose it is also possible that people around here have enough other things to do that they wouldn’t miss the team. It does make me wonder if the “Vikings as essential part of Minnesota history and culture” argument is a bigger deal in other parts of the state, i.e, if the cultural identity is stronger there.
As far as replacing the legislators goes, well, I said this during the government shutdown, and I’ll say it again: the legislature reflects the voters of this state, and the truth is that our society is polarized and we don’t all want the same things from our legislators. Just because I agree with my legislators on their stadium votes, for example, doesn’t mean I agree with them on, say, gay marriage.
I wondered if the strong support was because they didn’t have to pay as much as the local legislators did.
I’m not surprised that the support is coming from outstate as opposed to Metro counties. I think folks in the metro are far less likely to have grown up here and therefore don’t have the same emotional attachment to the team. I think they also have other priorities and tend to be less willing to spend money on this.