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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PWT36" data-source="post: 8184" data-attributes="member: 170"><p>Vikeman -Rapidgopher comment is not unusal when public financing is mentioned for financing stadiums for professional teams.  My question poised in my first posting still stands. Will the mn. legislature approve public funding for the proposed new Vikings stadium? News reports out of Mn. a few months ago indicated much opposition to it.  has this changed?  A photo of a outdoor stadium, with I took as being rather sarcastic caption under it, in answer to Rapidgopher posting does not answer anything. .  If this public financing question is put to a vote in mn.  you better be ready to defend your position on it.    In Green Bay, we had a referendum on that question.  The anti  referendum people  for renovating Lambeau Field were very effective and organized. Their tantics during the re ferendum campaign were very effective.They almost defeated the referendum.  At the beginning support was overwelming 3 to 1.  The vote total was 53% to 47%. And that was in Green Bay, where Packer fans think about Packer football 365 days a year, Have a sold out stadium since 1960 and have 62,000 Packer fan season ticket waiting list.  Be prepared for much oposition to public financing for public stadium in mn.  opposition like rapidgophers . You are going to have to defend your position on it, I had to,   everytime it came up in conversations  during the referendum campaign for renovation of Lambeau. And the comments from some the people I know, who opposed it were bitter and many time were inaccurate. I tried to be diplomatic about my comments concerning the topic but it was  extremely difficult  at times.  But it passed and that is the main thing. Many have not accepted it and are still bitter about the vote results.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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