Critics Claim Billion-Dollar Football Stadium Isn’t for the Birds

[Valin]

Daily Signal:

Tom Steward

November 30, 2014

 

MINNEAPOLIS—Bird lovers launched a last-ditch drive at a Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority meeting to protect migratory species from what they consider a killer Minnesota Vikings football stadium being built with $500 million in taxpayer funding.

 

The Minnesota Citizens for the Protection of Migratory Birds called on Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton to fire facilities authority chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen.

 

“The MSFA and the Vikings leveraging their power to make choices, which insult the values of the people who are paying for it, is an outstanding example of a corrupt system in which the desires of just a few individuals can override the desires and values of many thousands more,” said Wendy Hann, a member of the citizens group in addressing MSFA board members Monday.

 

One of Dayton’s closest allies, Kelm-Helgen has refused to push for bird-friendly fritted glass at a cost of $1 million. The project’s total budget is$1 billion.

 

(Snip)

 

 

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Is there a way possible for both side to lose this?

[Pepper]

:

Tom Steward

November 30, 2014

 

MINNEAPOLIS—Bird lovers launched a last-ditch drive at a Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority meeting to protect migratory species from what they consider a killer Minnesota Vikings football stadium being built with $500 million in taxpayer funding.

 

The Minnesota Citizens for the Protection of Migratory Birds called on Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton to fire facilities authority chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen.

 

“The MSFA and the Vikings leveraging their power to make choices, which insult the values of the people who are paying for it, is an outstanding example of a corrupt system in which the desires of just a few individuals can override the desires and values of many thousands more,” said Wendy Hann, a member of the citizens group in addressing MSFA board members Monday.

 

One of Dayton’s closest allies, Kelm-Helgen has refused to push for bird-friendly fritted glass at a cost of $1 million. The project’s total budget is$1 billion.

 

(Snip)

 

 

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Is there a way possible for both side to lose this?

 

 

Put wind farms around edges festooned with solar farms. Birds would be sliced fried and baked.

 

You guys could be the KFC of the Far North

[Valin]

@Pepper

 

OOOOHHHH!!! I Like It!

 

 

Words cannot express just how thrilled I am at my tax dollars are going to this.