Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: House Vikings stadium vote Monday May 7

[patty (pattypax]

Since the salon took up this issue, i am sending this email from Will Shapira.  
it is spot on.  we need to do it.  patty

Begin forwarded message:

> From: wshapira [at] comcast.net
> Date: May 4, 2012 8:27:30 PM CDT
> To: dick_bernard [at] msn.com, rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net, wammdirector 
> [at] mtn.org, pattypax [at] earthlink.net, larryjvfp [at] gmail.com, 
> bjheberle [at] gmail.com, g.gilson [at] comcast.net, mhgelfand [at] aol.com, 
> i02bkz [at] comcast.net, outbeatr1 [at] tds.net, laborpartyjp [at] gmail.com
> Cc: jmarty [at] senate.mn, rep.mindy.greiling [at] house.mn
> Subject: House Vikings stadium vote Monday May 7
> 
> I realize many of you don't care about football but I think most of you who 
> purport to be for peace and justice would consider it an injustice of the 
> highest magnitude of we let Vikings owner and billionaire Zygi Wilf extort 
> our elected House and possibly Senate members for hundreds of millions of our 
> taxpayer dollars for a new stadium which he can and should pay for himself 
> since he is the only who will profit from it.
> Even Forbes took up this issue in its latest edition; check it out via info 
> [at] MinnPost.com. You won't see it reprinted in the stadium-mad Star 
> Tribune, that's for sure, nor in any other Minnesota newspaper, sad to say.
> The only way to stop this social debacle is to contact your House member ASAP 
> and tell her-him you are against any Vikings stadium bill that calls for 
> public funding, whether it's a stand-alone bill or tied to a tax bill or 
> another measure.
> We need to spend our tax dollars judiciously and in my view, where they are 
> needed most---to assist the jobless, homeless, hungry, on education, health 
> care, infrasturcture, environment and the entire litany of true social causes.
> You also can write letters to the editor opposing the stadium though these 
> now will run after the House vote but will be useful should the House pass a 
> bill which then goes to the Senate.
> And don't forget to give special attention to our sellout governor who 
> clearly is trying to finance his re-election campaign in 2014 with major 
> backing from Big Labor in return for stadium construction jobs.
> So, this issue is about a lot more than football.
> Don't punt---act now.
> Drop-kick Zygi through the goalposts of life.
> And share this with your friends and associates.
>  
> Will Shapira
> Roseville
> 651-493-7473
> wshapira [at] comcast.net
>  
> Rep. Greiling, pls. send to the list of public officials you have been using 
> lately and thanks, best, Will...