Reply #63: Does the proposal include language requiring the 30-yr lease? [View All]

[jean]

I'm not a lawyer, just a taxpayer - forgive my naivete...

We've got self-serving corporatists running amok in our state - I worry they're launching a strafe/pillage scenario against taxpayers because they've used Bush/Rove bully politics: Write the proposal in private, with no input from the minority, allow no taxpayer discussion/referendum and ram it through for a vote because - they've got a one vote majority.

What does their proposal really say? Have they got any bait and switch garbage in it? How else are they trying to ram their way through?

Who are "The Twins?" The owner of the team? Pohlad will pass away - what are his heirs obliged to do?

How will the roof be funded? The stadium alone will cost Henn. Co. taxpayers $900 million over the 30 years (according to Nick Coleman on this morning's AAR Minnesota) - that's nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS and doesn't even include the roof!

I want to keep the Twins in Minnesota - but we're offered just one way to do it - their way or (the threat of) the highway. They're not allowing discussion, referendum, nothing. Just ram it through.