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SomeGuyInEagan

(1,515 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:42 PM Mar 2013

ePull-Tabs to fund Vikings' stadium .... OOOPS!

From today's Star-Tribune "Gambling firms drove flawed Minnesota e-pulltab funding plan"

From the article:

"Those estimates became the foundation for the state Department of Revenue’s projection that the new games would rake in $35 million for stadium funding by the end of this year.

In November, that figure was sliced to $17 million. In February, it was slashed to $1.7 million.

“There was a willful blindness ... driven by pressure politics,” charged David Schultz, a Hamline University political analyst and a professor of nonprofit law."

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/199708411.html

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