David/list,
For what it is worth I have received relatively few comments on the stadium
either pro or con. A handful, generally from opponents, very emphatic and
heartfelt. I sent a survey to voters in the District a few weeks ago and am
still receiving replies (about 50+ a day actually). Since the various stadium
stories have hit the press several of the returned surveys have had hand written
comments on the issue, but again far from overwhelming.
I believe my District to be generally strongly anti public funding of stadiums,
but I also think they are more concerned with adequate funding for schools, the
University and MNScu, affordable housing and the like.
All the best.
Representative Jim Davnie
District 62A
David Brauer wrote:
> In an already bizarre day, I just received a call from the Minnesota
> Vikings...I thought it was a polling call (and might be that), asking if I
> supported a new Minneapolis stadium.
>
> Instead, they went a different way. The caller did her little spiel,
> informing me that the Vikings and NFL will put in $150 million, while not
> mentioning the public contribution ($350 million currently) except to say
> that it "wouldn't raise your taxes."
>
> Then the punch line: she asked if I would I be willing to write/call my
> legislators to support a new football stadium? She specifically named my
> District 60 legislators: Rep. Scott Dibble and Sen. Myron Orfield. I told
> her I would resist doing so with every fiber of my being, and she politely
> hung up.
>
> I'm still wondering how I got on their list, since I've never been a Vikes
> season ticket-holder or team mailing list in any way. I'm only speculating,
> but could they have gotten a roster of DFL delegates, a list I am on and one
> legislators might listen to?
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else on the list has been called, or has knowledge
> of how the Vikes are calling.
>
> Also, have the Minneapolis legislators on this list gotten a lot of
> pro-stadium calls or letters? (I'm skeptical they have.)
>
> I also found Gov. Ventura's comments that the new stadium location is
> ill-served by mass transit to be pretty interesting - I think he meant it is
> not on light-rail lines, though the U does have a nexus of bus lines,
> doesn't it? And was it really that big a nightmare when 55,000 were
> traveling to games at nearby Memorial Stadium when it was still standing?
>
> David Brauer
> King Field - Ward 10
>
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