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Re:Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team by throwaway60453 on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:51PM (#11030530)
Excuse me, local resident here.

Santa Clara City residents approved $400 million in financing.

City Council went ahead with a promise for ... $1.3 billion so far. So most of it was not voted on at all.

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Re:Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team by bringles on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:05PM (#11030626)
But how were the council members appointed? Resident approval must be involved somehow. If this city council is doing a bad job (seems like it), push for a new council. If the tide is too strong against, you have to challenge ideas.

A lot of folks seem to believe there's a legal apparatus we need to invent that can solve this, when it's perfectly sufficient to just get traction for a critical stance on concussionball (gasp!)

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Re:Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team by tamana on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:31PM (#11030804)
When you fire a council, you don't get the money back.
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Re:Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team by jessaustin on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:55PM (#11031195)
And they get to keep all but the most egregious bribes...
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Re:Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team by throwaway60453 on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:31PM (#11030803)
> push for a new council

Kinda late, since the stadium is already built.

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Re:Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team by ec109685 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @01:12AM (#11032351)
Hasn't most of that been paid back already due to personal seat licenses?
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