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Zellers said he would wait until Friday to decide the stadium's fate.
By not acting, Zellers could slam the door shut on a stadium deal this session, likely renewing speculation that the Vikings owners could push to move the team.
"The only reason it's a mess is because we got it so late," said Senjem, who added that Dayton had been promising a stadium plan since Thanksgiving. "There are a lot of questions about the financial horsepower of electronic pulltabs."
In a sign of the multitude of problems facing the project, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak acknowledged that he also did not yet have a majority of the City Council supporting the project.
Outside the hearing room, Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley said Wednesday's events did not mean the project was politically dead this spring. "I don't think it's time to abandon the proposal," he said. "It's time to work on it, fix it."
About the only definitive action at the committee meeting was a unanimous decision to adopt an amendment changing the length of the Vikings' lease from 30 years - with several opportunities for five-year extensions - to 40 years.
Ted Mondale, chairman of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, said he thought the new lease requirements could complicate the deal with the Vikings, but it was approved anyway.
The way Zellers is dragging this out makes me think he's a complete idiot. The only reason politicians drag things out like is for the press, so does he somehow thinks that running the vikings out of town is going to make him governor?Zellers said he would wait until Friday to decide the stadium's fate.
By not acting, Zellers could slam the door shut on a stadium deal this session, likely renewing speculation that the Vikings owners could push to move the team.
Demi wrote:Let them build a casino in Arden Hills and use that money to fund every non-Vikings portion of the cost. Build the stadium right next to it. After the stadium is paid off, use the money each year elsewhere.
I agree with this! The arden hills site is such a perfect place for a vikings stadium / sports and entertainment complex. It would be an epic facility that the state could be proud of and i am sure it would bring in a lot of events. Also if there was a casino right there that would be Awesome! I would stay at the casino (assuming there is a hotel attached) everytime I go to a vikings game and with my luck they would have the stadium paid of in no time! To late for this now though 
Pretty clear why, and part of it is that he's an idiot. But can you imagine the backlash if this is passed and he didn't go fighting tooth and nail? Some people would rather spend nothing to make nothing, even if the alternative was investing and gaining in the long term....glg wrote: The way Zellers is dragging this out makes me think he's a complete idiot. The only reason politicians drag things out like is for the press, so does he somehow thinks that running the vikings out of town is going to make him governor?
More than 50 days after he gaveled the Minnesota House into session, Kurt Zellers remains a puzzle to those who want a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.
With the $975 million proposal teetering in the balance and the Legislature edging closer to adjourning, no one person at the State Capitol is likely to have more to say about what happens to the stadium this year.
glg wrote: The way Zellers is dragging this out makes me think he's a complete idiot. The only reason politicians drag things out like is for the press, so does he somehow thinks that running the vikings out of town is going to make him governor?
Sure sounds like he wants to be a dick about things. Didnt he say at first he was all for it and would do whatever he could to help it out?PurpleMustReign wrote:
Did you see where Zellers said he didn't even read the whole proposal? What a #### clown. What a ####. I wish someone would find him with his secretary or maid or something. Worthless punk.
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_ ... ts-chancesThe NFL's free-agency frenzy has slowed enough for us to get back to what you have all been clamoring for: Minnesota Vikings stadium updates!
In all seriousness, we haven't hit the stadium issue in a few weeks because almost nothing of note has happened over that period. That inaction reached a newsworthy point Friday afternoon, when a state deadline passed for all bills to be approved by at least one legislative committee. That means the Vikings' $975 million stadium plan, which hasn't cleared a single committee, won't be approved during the 2012 session unless it receives special exemption from state leaders to move forward.
Such exemptions are often a matter of routine, but the necessity in this instance speaks to the middling support this issue has received from most state legislators. Even a staunch stadium supporter, state Rep. John Kriesel, expressed significant doubt over the weekend about the stadium's future. Asked if he thought the bill would be approved before the end of the legislative session next month, Kriesel said: "I don't, I don't unless we really get some things done over the next week."
Kriesel is a straight talker who recently announced he will not run for re-election, so his public statements are likely to be less dipped in politics than the average legislator. But we also know that stadium politics are always cast in doubt until the moment they are resolved. That process could begin by securing an exemption and reviving the committee hearing process. It also will eventually require the support of House Speaker Kurt Zellers, who to this point has been a bystander in the proceedings.