Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Peaceniks and non-peacenik issues

[patty (pattypax]

This is from Will Shapira and i thought some of you salon people would  
like to see it.  There is also another hearing on the stadium on Tues,  
Oct 11 at 6:30 Pm in St Paul's  City Hall, and the salon will be going  
to that instead of having our regular salon at the tea house.
Thanks, ]
patty

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> From: wshapira [at] comcast.net
> Date: September 26, 2011 2:02:03 AM CDT
> To: dick_bernard [at] msn.com, rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net, cturchick [at] hotmail.com 
> ,  bjheberle [at] gamil.com, pattypax [at] earthlink.net, pfreshman [at] mm.com
> Cc: ljlehmann [at] pobox.com
> Subject: Peaceniks and non-peacenik issues
>
> 1. Please share as widely as possible ASAP with your email lists.
> 2. I have asked you on other occasions to stand up for appropriate  
> budgeting of taxpayer dollars and oppose public funding for a new  
> sports stadium for a super-rich franchise owner.
> Five years ago, we lost to master extortionist Carl Pohlad and the  
> result is Target Field and a last-place team from the cheapo Pohlad  
> family.
> Now, Vikings owner Zygi Wilf, probably a billionaire but no one  
> knows for sure, is trying to extend that unfortunate precedent to  
> extort as much as $600m of our precious tax dollars for a new  
> stadium which he can and should pay for himself since he is the only  
> one who would benefit from it---there is no "public option."
> 3. At the very least, please write the governor, your state senator  
> and your state representative and declare your opposition to public  
> funding for this project and state why you believe a referendum  
> should be held in Ramsey County on it, in relation to a proposed  
> stadium site in Arden Hills, located in northern Ramsey County, as  
> per state law. Pohlad managed to evade this law in getting his  
> stadium.
>  4. Testimony on a proposed referendum on a county-wide sales tax to  
> pay for a new Vikings stadium will be taken Wednesday Sept. 28  
> starting at 6:30 p.m. Please call the information officer for Ramsey  
> County for location and driving directions to the site in New  
> Brighton where  testimony will be taken and  inform everyone else  
> (including me) of this data plus whether people from outside Rasmey  
> County will be allowed to testify.
> 5. If non-Ramsey County residents will be allowed to testify, they  
> and RC residents alike should prepare a few bullet points explaining  
> why you believe a referendum should be held. This, not the stadium  
> itself, is what testimony is being taken on. Be concise; if you get  
> to testify at all, you'll have only a few minutes. Get there no  
> later than 6 p.m. to register if you can testify.
> 6. All of these questions should have been answered by now  by the  
> media and elected officials but have not.
> 7. You may not give a damn about sports but I'm sure you do about  
> proper use of our tax dollars.
>
> Thanks, best, Will...