Nick Coleman, on "The People's Stadium" [View all]
From the column:
"After Thursday’s passage of the Vikings stadium giveaway, the Governor of Minnesota used the kind of language usually reserved for wounded or dead soldiers to heap praise on Zygi and Mark Wilf, the billionaire, New Jersey-based owners of an NFL franchise that was worth an estimated $800 million last week but probably far more than $1 billion now:
“Last night, when we came up $50 million short, the Wilfs stepped in, in just a heroic way,” Dayton said at just the latest of a series of fraudulent “press conferences” on the stadium issue dominated by self-congratulating politicians and extremely short on actual questions from a cowed press corps. “Without their willingness to take this last step, we wouldn’t have crossed the goal line.” He went on to say he was “incredibly grateful to Zygi and Mark Wilf.”
Heroic? Crossing the goal line? Incredibly grateful to an incredibly wealthy monopoly business family that had just agreed to accept more than half a billion in public assistance? What in hell is wrong with Mark Dayton?"
Entire read at:
http://www.nickcolemanmn.com/?p=3254
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