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Planning for a New Football Stadium


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That price tag shouldn't surprise anybody, really. Not if you're talking about a real "state of the art" stadium.

Here's what I'm wondering...what kind of political game is Herenton trying to play with this report? The only theory I can come up with is that he'll wait shortly before the election to release the report. It will say that the new stadium will cost $300 million. It will recommend several financing options for building it, but Herenton will reject those options as unfeasible (the "ridiculous assumptions" that are the supposed-reason for withholding the report). So he will declare that NO new stadium will be built on his watch, and will recommend more modest improvements to the Liberty Bowl.

And then he will be able to boast about how he's being "fiscally responsible" and how he can't support building a new stadium when we have so many other pressing problems in this city. That should appeal to his poor or lower-middle class constituency who, sadly, will completely ignore that Herenton created this controversy in the first place.

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