{"id":13614,"date":"2010-09-21T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2010-09-21T07:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T12:05:59","slug":"horners-corporate-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13614","title":{"rendered":"Horner’s Corporate Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Horner wants to put you on the hook for a new Vikings stadium<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In an attempt to drum up interest, Horner will appear outside the Metrodome Sunday before the kickoff of the Vikings’ first home game of the season to pitch his proposal to fans. Under Horner’s proposal, the team would pay 40 percent of the cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, good luck with that, Tom. \u00a0The precedent has long been set; teams will stomp their feet and make noises about moving to Los Angeles if they have to pony up a greasy nickel.<\/p>\n

Leaving you, the taxpayer – who will already be paying for two billion in new taxes (in the first <\/em>biennium) – holding the purple bag:<\/p>\n

The state would issue 40-year bonds for about $32 million a year and fans would shoulder part of the burden, most likely through higher ticket prices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yay! \u00a0More debt! \u00a0To subsidize billionaires!<\/p>\n

Of course, Tom Horner’s PR firm has been in bed with the ‘queens for years:<\/p>\n

Horner’s former firm has longstanding business connections with the Vikings, although Horner said he has not been personally involved in previous contracts. He did take his plans to the Vikings in a private meeting this summer, but said there is a firewall between him and his old firm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d like to see that “firewall” vetted. \u00a0Perhaps after Horner’s budget is vetted by the MN Department of Revenue?<\/p>\n

No rush or anything, Tom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Horner wants to put you on the hook for a new Vikings stadium: In an attempt to drum up interest, Horner will appear outside the Metrodome Sunday before the kickoff of the Vikings’ first home game of the season to pitch his proposal to fans. Under Horner’s proposal, the team would pay 40 percent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13748,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}