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On Friday 19 July 2002 07:34, List Manager wrote:
> "We have support all over this community," the mayor tells Sid Hartman,
> adding that more legislative changes are needed than just letting
> Hennepin County into the financing.
I would've thought the past referendum indicated a pretty low level of
support from the city as a whole. I would really like the Mayor and the
rest of city/county/state government to just let this go. It's been going
on for years and is a major waste of time/money/energy. If some other city
wants to work with the Twins, let them.
> By the way, Lisa Goodman replaces Rybak and Steve Sviggum as Sid's
> villain. Sid writes that "Lisa Goodman...has sabotaged the chances of
> the Twins getting a stadium in Minneapolis."
Well, hats off to Ms. Goodman then! I'm not so worried about becoming a
cold Omaha as I'm worried about becoming just another bland mid-sized US
city, indistinguishable from most of the others-- let's set Minneapolis
apart by offering something different. As they say in business, "focus on
your core competencies"... that would be things like parks and the arts.
Baseball is a big business. Let them finance their own stadiums on the free
market and make them pay the same taxes the rest of us pay.
In the future, I will be voting against politicians who not only support
"working with" pro sports, but who waste inordinate amounts of
time/energy/money by responding with anything other than a terse "You want
it, you pay for it" when the teams come begging for money. This has been
going on way too long.
We need the energy for dealing with education issues.
- -Michael Libby (Cleveland in North Mpls)
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