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Defend America on Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:34:22 AM
Vikings Stadium Plan? Obama vs. Pawlenty
By Evan Weiner - The Daily Caller 02/12/10 at 9:36 am
Zygi Wilf’s National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings franchise
didn’t win the big game this year, in fact Wilf’s team did not qualify
for the big game in South Florida as Wilf’s Vikings lost to the finest
team that Louisiana taxpayers could fund, Tom Benson’s New Orleans
Saints.
Benson used some of the $23.5 million in state aid he got last July
to, presumably, pay for players and could use some of the $23.5 million
in state aid due next July to extend Drew Brees’ contract. The
Louisiana handouts will be capped at $6 million starting in 2011.
Wilf is still in the hunt to play in the “Big Game” however. You see
Wilf’s lease at the Metrodome in Minneapolis is done following the 2011
season and Wilf wants a new stadium somewhere in the Minneapolis-St.
Paul market and is planning to pitch the Minnesota legislature in this
session to get a stadium built or Wilf’s Vikings may have a new home
out of state.
Wilf may come up big this time. Vikings ownership thinks the federal
stimulus money might be available for the project, which would put Wilf
at odds with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican who is not a
stimulus fan. Minnesota’s capital St. Paul would become a battleground
in a way, President Obama’s stimulus plan, the Recovery Act of 2009,
versus a lame duck governor who has Presidential aspirations in 2012
and would like to be the Republican nominee.
http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/12/vikings-stadium-plan-obama-vs-pawlenty/