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House Speaker Kurt Zellers was waked about Ramsey county meeting with Governor Dayton this morning on another stadium plan, this time relying on the...
House Speaker Kurt Zellers was waked about Ramsey county meeting with Governor Dayton this morning on another stadium plan, this time relying on the growth of sales taxes and a whole menu of ideas. "God bless 'em" said Zellers "Each and every week something different or new comes up. Once it gets to a process where we've got a bill and an author with a bill that's got 68 votes, then we can get involved. But this thing has ebbed and flowed before session, as we got into session as we're going through session. If they've got a process and a plan that they can get 68 votes that helps but until I see it on paper, I've learned enough with these stadium proposals that until you see it on paper, I'm just going to wait and I'll see it then. Tom Hauser: Is the air out of the Viking's stadium balloon? Is there no sense of urgency now that it appears the Vikings have no where to go? Zellers: I don't think so. We've always said all along, we've been very respectful of the process. We want to make sure they have their best chance to pass a bill and we don't' want to see a Twins stadium bill where you bring up something that isn't quite cooked and it loses by five or ten votes on the House floor and sets them back eight, seven, five years. So I think once you get to that process, I know the authors… I won't speak for the Senate authors…but I know that Representative Lanning has been working very hard on the process. You know, again it has got to be a good deal for the state of Minnesota. It has to be a good deal for the taxpayers. It should be a good deal for the local partner, but at the end of the day it has to be something that can stand the test of time and if it isn't quite cooked. If everything isn't quite set then I don't think they'll bring it forward. But we'll wait to see what the proposal is.
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