Saturday, March 19, 2011

49ers Stadium Subsidy: "Let's just give it to 'em right now!"

Dear Santa Clarans,


Please see the Mercury News' coverage of the Special Meeting of our RDA and Stadium Authority to be held on Monday evening:

Santa Clara's next idea to keep stadium money from state: Give it to 49ers


Do we understand this correctly? Our RDA - identically our City Council - is going to take $4.5 million in RDA cash and hand it to a stadium developer which just locked out their own NFL Players and which has not even come up with its OWN financing for the stadium?

In the bitterest of divorce actions, one spouse desperately moves assets around to conceal them from the other spouse's lawyer. Here, we're handing RDA cash over to the San Francisco 49ers simply in order to keep it out of the hands of Governor Brown.

Not only that: The Mayor himself informs that we cannot even view the text of the motion for Monday evening until Monday morning at the earliest. That's not open government, no matter what rationalization the "stadium boosters" on the Council are using this week.

If you can make it to City Hall at 7:00 pm on Monday evening, March 21st, please come and watch your city government in action.



Thanks for all of your support,
Bill Bailey, Treasurer,
Santa Clara Plays Fair

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