[Mpls] Build it and They will Come

[Jim Bernstein]

This is not an either/or scenario!  The choice is not between "crime
prevention" or a new baseball stadium! 

Regardless of where one stands on the special levy in Hennepin County to
build a new baseball stadium, there is no $1.1 billion dollars sitting
in a pile somewhere waiting to be divvied up.  No temporary sales tax
increase for the stadium does mean that there will be a sales tax
increase for "crime prevention" or affordable housing or anything else.


Even if a stadium levy is imposed, Hennepin County or the city of
Minneapolis could still pass and then ask the Legislature for additional
sales tax increase to fund "crime prevention" or affordable housing or
something else. 

Jim Bernstein
Minneapolis


-----Original Message-----
From: mpls-bounces at mnforum.org [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On
Behalf Of Aaarty at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:04 AM
To: mpls at mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] Build it and They will Come

 
How Much Crime Can We Prevent With 1.1  Billion Dollars? 
 
That's how much the leading mayoral candidates want to spend, of  the 
taxpayers money, for a new stadium for one of the richest multi
billionaires  in the 
world. When we're cutting funds for education, medical research,
libraries, 
fire and police protection these reckless fools want to squander our
hard 
earned money on an open air stadium right next to the garbage burner.
According 
to an air emission study conducted for Hennepin County, the precise
point of 
impact or the "hot spot" for most of the emissions will be 417  meters 
southeast of the smokestacks or more precisely, the pitcher's mound. 
 
The 1.1 billion dollar figure comes from the Minnesota  Department of 
Revenue. That's what a new stadium will cost over the 30 year  proposed
period. These 
two leading candidates have never been in business. They  are completely

unaware that they are being hornswaggled by one of the most  cunning
billionaires 
in the state. Pohlad is coughing up several million more  dollars than
he 
originally proposed and if the young and naive candidates  wouldn't
buckle he 
would pay for it all because the value of his team will go up  in value
about six 
or eight hundred million dollars or more when he gets a  new stadium. At
that 
point, of course, he would probably put the team up for  sale and ride
out of 
town like Red McCombs with hundreds of millions of  dollars and ready
for his 

 
Sincerely,  Don Johnson, Candidate for Mayor, 3808 Grand Ave So.
Minneapolis, 
MN 55409 (612)  824 1111 _www.DonJohnsonMayor.org_ 
(http://www.donjohnsonmayor.org/)  
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