That isn't even completely right... It isn't like we weren't without significant resistance to tearing down a functional stadium to then build a fancy new one with public money in the first place.
But it's sorta right. Are localities around the country not one-upping each other to jack off Corporations harder than the next city?
You're right about not having a say in electing those idiots who voted for stadium money in the rest of MN though. Those are all the same people around the state who don't like funding Metro priorities while the real story is that they take
from Metro taxes.
If Ziggy and the NFL wanted a new stadium they could have paid for it. Same goes for the Twins stadium and the Timberwolves at the Target Center. I do not care about having a Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Go ahead and keep it somewhere else the way Cities around the world are starting to get out of wanting the Olympics. Wasn't one of the advertised perks of building a new stadium that we could vie for the Super Bowl and bring that cash cow home? Check out those other cities still paying off their bills from their own Super Bowl extravaganza.
https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/01/super-bowl-showdown-economic-boost-or-no/"Significant resistance?" Moot now that they actually built it, no? Because they were going to move to Los Angeles?
Even an ass like Jessie Ventura didn't give the Vikings a new stadium. I'm so proud of us.
Meanwhile, I'll continue to ride over the same pot-holed street to work on my bike, the city sidewalk department can't get their shit together about fixing my sidewalk for at least the last five years and somehow we are unable to do something about the homeless, the heroin whores and the pimps on Lake Street.
And in case you're wondering I'm neither a jealous Viking's fan, nor a fan at all. If I'm not mistaken, they've managed to choke every time it mattered back to the very first Super Bowl.