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Originally Posted by dtell04
There is some sort of genius happening right now, I think we should all take the time to admire it. Imagine if Spanos and Briggs managed to pull this off. Tell Faulconer and Roberts to keep OUR money while raising the hotel tax and giving the hoteliers no other option but to pay for the convadium. It has also been rumored that Spanos might put forth a significantly higher dollar amount than if the stadium was in mission valley.
If the city managed to churn out another 10,000 degrees each year by handing off the site to the universities......wow.
However this turns out and however anyone feels. It is kind of nice that all these important decisions about OUR city will be made by a public vote, not special interest deals (namely hoteliers)
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I agree that a public vote is the way to go for such a divisive issue. As evidenced on this board, there are strong opinions on both sides. I am a bit cynical about the ballot process, though. Special interests still find a way to manipulate the system. JMI has been funding the signature drive for Brigg's ballot measure and I'm sure they will be throwing money at advertising to get it to pass. Likewise, the Chargers will, I'm sure, spend plenty on selling their ballot measure to the people. The question is whether an anti-downtown stadium campaign will take shape like it did in Carlsbad over that lagoon shopping center this week. Even though city officials favor mission valley, I don't really see them throwing a lot of money and political capital at trying to defeat the measure.
By the way, will it be a city-wide or county-wide vote? With the MV plan and the county putting money in there was talk it could be county-wide, but I'm guessing without the county chipping in it would only be on the ballot for residents of the city of San Diego