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Anybody gonna cover the Vikings’ stadium issue? I keep expecting to read some opinion about it in one of the conservative blogs, but so far, no luck.
Maybe Jason Davis is railing against it on the radio and I keep missing it.
Perhaps Kathrine Kersten will apply her free market principles to the issue of a Vikings’ stadium, but I better not hold my breath.
Peter H, Pen wrote about it some time ago over on Penigma……….. maybe you should read a wider variety of blogs?
Pen wrote about it some time ago over on Penigma
What? Is Zygi Wilf another of Pen’s neighbors?
As re the stadium: I oppose public subsidies for stadiums. Always have, always will. Have as long as I can remember. Not sure what I can add to that.
Mitch, I know that’s your position. I just don’t think that many conservatives are going to hold to their principles on this issue. If the Tea Party folks are serious about limited government, this would seem like an easy place to assert their values and win a battle.
Well Pete, you would be wrong on that. I opposed the tax and public subsidy for Target Field, and I oppose any public $ for a Vikings stadium. Just like I think RT Rybak spending $500,000 for 10 “public art” drinking fountains in Minneapolis is idiotic in the extreme.
Kermit, True North has one pro-stadium piece and one opposed, so I’m gonna stick with my prediction that conservatives will not speak with one, clear voice on this issue.
so I’m gonna stick with my prediction that conservatives will not speak with one, clear voice on this issue.
I think unclarity on the stadium crosses party lines.
If the Tea Party folks are serious about limited government, this would seem like an easy place to assert their values and win a battle.
The Tea Parties have tended to focus on national issues.
I don’t think you’d find even a thin film of people at the Tea Parties who’d support stadium subsidies.
Well Pete, a fact about conservatives is that they don’t generally “speak with one, clear voice” on many issues. That’s a characteristic of independent thought that is seldom found on the Left. Case in point being capital punishment, which Mr. Berg and many others oppose, and I support.
Personally, I think that is a good thing, as it precludes the tendency towards the Stalinism that permeates American Liberalism today.
“one pro-stadium piece and one opposed,”
You’ve got a survey with a sample size of two. Run with that.
Okay, Master, you give me a better place than True North to get the pulse of Minnesota conservative bloggers.
Yeah, I know the Tea Party movement focuses on national stuff. They can get a thousand people to rally at the State Capitol to oppose health care reform — which isn’t much more than a chance to vent. This issue is something where a thousand people at the State Capitol could make a difference, but I’m not expecting to see them tackle this.
That could be because “health care reform” will cost most of us thousands of dollars and a big slice of personal freedom, while a another stadium financed by an incremental sales tax increase will be have a far smaller impact.
But then, as you have already admitted, the Tea Party movement is national, while a Vikings stadium is local, so you’re really setting up a traditional straw man, aren’t you?
So the approach is to tilt at the national stuff and let the local stuff slide?
“let the local stuff slide?”
What is sliding?
“Master, you give me a better place” — Come to a MOB party. Talk to people.
All politics are local. That’s why Bachmann is the target of a national smear campaign.
If the MN GOP came out against a Vikings stadium, the DFL would turn the Star Tribune and WCCO (WDFL) loose on a typical scortched Earth camoaign. If WDFL or the Strib actually asked people what they thought I for one would be shocked. Their job is to tell the dimwits in this state what to think.
I’ve got ten bucks says Ziggy Wilf votes Democrat.
Kermit, glad I didn’t take that bet. You can see Wilf’s political donations here. Mostly to Dems, with a few exceptions. His first Republican donation, interestingly, is to Boschwitz back in 1990.
His track record with MN races isn’t so good. In addition to Boschwitz in ’90, he’s backed these losing efforts: Wellstone in ’02, Kennedy in ’06, and Tinklenberg, Madia, and Norm Coleman in ’08. His one MN winner was Oberstar, in ’08.
Okay, Master, you give me a better place than True North to get the pulse of Minnesota conservative bloggers.
Not sure about “bloggers”, but Jason Lewis – who is one of the people behind a lot of us conservative bloggers – was leading the charge against stadium subsidiues 15 years ago. Lewis – at least, the Jason Lewis we had until 2003 – was the intellectual catalyst that guided a lot of people (to some extent myself included) into conservative blogging.
For myself? I was on record opposing stadium subsidies in 1986, although since the Dome was five years old at the time, it wasn’t as pressing an issue.
Cool Pete. I think we can agree that if Ziggy gets his new home, the DFL will be his beneficiaries.
I’m sure John Marty will cut the ceremonial ribbon.
If Jason Lewis were to rail against tax funding for a new Vikings Stadium with the vigor he usually brings to these issues, I think he’d be very effective.
I don’t know how his corporate masters at KTLK would react, but they knew what they were getting when they hired him.
Lewis railed against subsidies for everything. And he basically was a role model for a generation of Minnesotans who broke from the “Minnesota Miracle” school of thought, the “government/private partnerships for everything” pattern that had run everything in Minnesota for 2-3 generations.
Yes, the question is whether or not Lewis will stick with his principles on this issue. It’s not enough to say it once or twice. He’s in a position to take a leadership role.
The establishment element in both the DFL and the MN GOP will back a stadium deal — though not if they are sufficiently pressured from their activist wings.
This is why light rail isn’t getting derailed — the activist right is the only group opposed, though I think the activist left should be opposed, seeing as this “urban renewal” effort is going to hurt real people who live in the urban core.
Stopping public finding for the Vikings stadium would be a rare moment of agreement on the part of the principled right and the anti-corporate welfare left. But if it’s only the lefties who are protesting, they’ll be dismissed and the establishment types in both parties will get their way.
It’s not just the left protesting. Or it won’t be for long. I’m not personally aware that this issue has gotten onto “the right’s” radar, really, but you haven’t heard the last of it.
John Marty will cut the ceremonial ribbon
Hell, Maggie Anderson-Kelliher might get a spot on the offensive line.