For $600 million, we get to keep 130 Vikings jobs in MN! [View all]

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Minnesota is being blackmailed by Vikings owner, billionaire Zygi Wilf. He claims he'll move his losing team to Los Angeles if Minnesotans don't cough up $600 or $700 million to build him a new stadium. While Minnesota is cutting money for education, healthcare, housing, the elderly and disabled, it is insane to spend hundreds of millions on a stadium the Vikings will play in 10 days a year! Get involved with WAMM - Women Against Military Madness - to work against all kinds of madness!


The Star Tribune reported on May 1 that Mpls share would be $675 million when interest costs are included. Could go as high as $890 million (from same article). They are talking about a roofless stadium - there won't be 200 events. People would spend their money on local bars and restaurants if they don't spend it at a football game. During the long baseball strike of 1994, business at bars and restaurants boomed. (From Free Lunch - How Wealthiest Enrich Themselves thru Gov't Expense)