Stadium thread

[PurpleKoolaid]

Positive steps. Getting closer. House hearing Mon night.

http://m.startribune.com/news/?id=145595145&c=y

Any idea what the House is meeting about? Noe that the Chairitable gambling guys are on board its should be smoother sailing.

[dead_poet]

Downtown East Stadium Conceptual images



See the rest here: http://blog.vikings.com/

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@andersonj: Stadium bill passes and moves to House Rules Committee.

[Bill Carson]

Downtown East Stadium Conceptual images

See the rest here: http://blog.vikings.com/

Thanks for the link. One photo (final photo) on the blog shows a tailgating lot where Purple Lot #1 currently is. In this photo, the tailgate lot is a soccer field.

[Bill Carson]

Not certain, but end of April is a target I have heard.

Starting this weekend they have a 10-day Easter break.

[Bill Carson]

Mayor R.T. Rybak is preparing to hold two community forums on his plan to fund a new Vikings stadium next week, just as Council opponents gear up to hold hearings of their own.

The mayor’s spokesman, John Stiles, said they finalized the dates of the two forums on Monday. They are:

Tuesday, April 10
7:30-8:45 p.m.
Lake Nokomis Community Center
2401 E. Minnehaha Pkwy.

Wednesday, April 11
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Logan Recreation Center
690 13th Ave. NE

Rybak is also giving his annual State of the City address on Wednesday at the Capri Theater in north Minneapolis.

Opponents of the mayor’s plan, who announced their intentions Friday to hold public hearings, have not yet determined when they will take place.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikin ... 42055.html

[PurpleMustReign]

Starting this weekend they have a 10-day Easter break.

Because they've been working so hard?

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Because they've been working so hard?

You think it's EASY to speak in circles while convincing people you don't have a clear opinion on things even though you secretly do as you criticize others while passing the buck and accepting no responsibility while posturing, ignoring facts and actively inhibiting progress while ignoring possible solutions? That #### takes serious work.

[dead_poet]

Vikings stadium bill moves forward thru House Rules committee, on its way to Gov Ops. Committee - Charitable gambling advances as well.

RT by Jeff Anderson

[dead_poet]

Minnesota legislators inching closer to stalemate
With all 201 legislative seats up for election in November, the testy climate at the Capitol is setting up another possible stalemate, in which legislators might opt to take their grievances to the campaign trail.

The nearly $1 billion Minnesota Vikings stadium project also needs a Herculean lift to get into the win column.

The stadium proposal has passed out of just one House committee and is stuck in its first Senate panel, unable to get the votes to move along.

Last week, the powerful House Rules Committee convened early in the morning to grant the proposal a special waiver for missing a key deadline.

Vikings Vice President Lester Bagley, who has led the team's lobbying effort, sat silently in the back of the hearing room late last week holding a giant cup of Starbucks coffee. "I think there are a lot of good discussions and energy that is going to move our issue forward," Bagley said earlier. "There's good momentum for a Vikings stadium solution this session."

But unease over the project is tearing at Republicans' desire for lockstep unity.

Sen. Mike Parry, R-Waseca, drew criticism from Vikings fans for withdrawing a proposal to allow electronic pulltabs, with the extra revenue going to charities and possibly for the state's nearly $400 million share of a new football stadium.

Rep. John Kriesel, the GOP sponsor of the same bill in the House, told Parry he thought the maneuver this late in the session seriously jeopardized the project. Kriesel became furious with Parry for sending an e-mail to a Vikings fan saying that the two legislators met to "clear up the confusion about the bill."

The Cottage Grove Republican said Parry's e-mail "was incredible, misleading and inaccurate," and still believes the senator's move has made the project more difficult.

State Rep. Ann Lenczewski, DFL-Bloomington, said legislators from either party lack the stomach for a highly controversial stadium vote.

"It's pretty obvious it is a next-year agenda item. It is an election year, for God sake," she said. "If [Speaker] Kurt Zellers wanted to pass the stadium bill, he would have done it by now. He knows it."

Zellers, a five-term legislator, noted that the final weeks and days of a session can be wild and unpredictable, with initiatives that seemed dead suddenly re-emerging in the swirl of a final deal.

"Until the session is over," he said, "everything is always in play."

http://www.startribune.com/politics/sta ... 46375.html

[HardcoreVikesFan]

Minnesota legislators inching closer to stalemate
With all 201 legislative seats up for election in November, the testy climate at the Capitol is setting up another possible stalemate, in which legislators might opt to take their grievances to the campaign trail.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/sta ... 46375.html

The day I see pigs flying outside my window is the day the Vikings Stadium will be passed.

[dead_poet]

Stadium bill to be heard Monday, April 16, in House Government Operations Committee.

Jeff Anderson on Twitter

[hibbingviking]

The day I see pigs flying outside my window is the day the Vikings Stadium will be passed.

The day I see hell freeze over is the day the Vikings Stadium will be passed.

[CalVike]

http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_20 ... ost_viewed

"50-50, which is perhaps the best odds we've ever had," is how Lester Bagley, Vikings vice president for public affairs and stadium development, described the chances of a stadium bill passing this year.

The Legislature returns from a 10-day break Monday, April 16, with the goal of adjourning by month's end.

Crunch time. All bets are off. If it happens in 2012, it happens in the next two weeks.

[Decker85]

i try to come in this thread to get news but i hate doing it because most of you are so whiney and negative.
the vikings will get their stadium..... at the last possible second, prolonging your negativity and agony.