To: House and Senate Republican caucuses
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, UppityPeasant
\nRe: Major League Soccer<\/p>\n
Now comes word that Minneapolis’ new “Major League Soccer” team has begun sniffing around the legislature, looking for public funding for a new stadium.<\/p>\n
Bill Maguire \u2013 former CEO of United health group, a company that has made billions and billions of dollars from the socialization of American healthcare \u2013 is buttonholing Tom Bakk and Gov. Let me speak with precise frankness.<\/p>\n If any Republican votes, for any reason, for public funding for any more stadiums, ever, I will devote whatever energy I have to their political obliteration. I will give their endorsement challengers all the air time and blog space I ethically can. I will work the challengers’ phone banks, drop their literature and pound their signs. I will help the challenger identify caucus goers, and drive them to caucus night. If that doesn’t work, I will do whatever I can to bring voters to the polls to support the challenger. I will join with whatever insurgency stakes itself to removing any and all pro stadium voters from office, and from politics.<\/p>\n Bill Maguire is worth well over $1 billion. He and his supporters could build a soccer stadium with the change under their car seats. Not that they need to \u2013 the Twin Cities is home to the country’s biggest soccer complex, up in Blaine. There is absolutely no need \u2013 none, Nada, zilch, zip, bupkes \u2013 to build a stadium at all, much less with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n This is not a threat. This is a promise.<\/p>\n If you people can’t draw a line in the sand over this, I’m afraid there’s absolutely nothing that you will.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To: House and Senate Republican caucuses From: Mitch Berg, UppityPeasant Re: Major League Soccer Now comes word that Minneapolis’ new “Major League Soccer” team has begun sniffing around the legislature, looking for public funding for a new stadium. Bill Maguire \u2013 former CEO of United health group, a company that has made billions and billions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657","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=52657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52688,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657\/revisions\/52688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Smith<\/del> Dayton to try and figure out the best way to begin extorting taxpayer money for, you guessed it, another sports stadium.<\/p>\n