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#280815 - 05/09/12 11:40 AM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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#280817 - 05/09/12 01:06 PM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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Originally Posted By: jw7
Get these e-mail addresses out to the soccer public ASAP guys...

House
Joe Hoppe - rep.joe.hoppe@house.mn
Morrie Lanning - rep.morrie.lanning@house.mn
Terry Morrow - rep.terry.morrow@house.mn

Senate
Julie Rosen - sen.julie.rosen@senate.mn]e-mail
Roger Reinert - sen.roger.reinert@senate.mn]e-mail
Bill Ingebrightensen - sen.bill.ingebrigtsen@senate.mn]e-mail




An example:

Subject:
Support for a MLS team to play in the new stadium

Hi ____,

I'm in support for an MLS team to play in the new stadium. I don't think that part of the bill should have been taken out of the bill with a new amendment. There is a great potential for professional (division 1/MLS) soccer in this state again someday.

Zigy will be spending a lot of money to start up the team and a MLS team is not a proven money maker at this point. He will be the only one taking a large risk. The state should help him create something new for the people of Minnesota.

-Name
-Address


If Soccer Boy can send a political e-mail that JW7 drafted, well so can you. Do not delay, send it today!!!


Edited by Soccer Boy (05/09/12 01:06 PM)
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#280819 - 05/09/12 01:37 PM Re: new stadium [Re: Soccer Boy]
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Also, all of you twitter people and facebook people should retweet or share the blog post I put up. Mayor Rybak already RT it.

This is the weirdest day ever when JW7, Soccerboy, and MNNiceFC send political messages in agreement. I think this forum is going to explode.
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#280822 - 05/09/12 02:08 PM Re: new stadium [Re: Minnesota NiceFC]
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows" - Shakespeare
laugh

Now all we need is for Bernie Slavin to join in...

In the end we all do share a common goal. smile

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#280826 - 05/09/12 06:47 PM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_205...rce=most_viewed

...the House GOP spokeswoman said key lawmakers were having conversations about the bill but that no conference committee meeting had been called.

Shortly before 5:30 p.m., House Majority Leader Matt Dean said on the House floor that the House would recess till 10 p.m. and could take up the stadium bill if it's through the conference committee process.

The stadium conferees all voted for the stadium bill on the floor of their respective chambers.

Rosen said after Tuesday night's vote that she planned during the conference committee process to ask the Vikings to put up more money toward the stadium deal.

She said negotiations will start at the extra $25 million the Senate is asking from the team. The House has asked the team to kick in another $105 million.

Vikings vice president Lester Bagley said... the Vikings remain open to the negotiation process.



7:37 PM CT
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/41903/vikings-stadium-final-steps-tonight

Good evening, everyone. Just wanted to set the table for you as best we can on what might be another late night of Minnesota Vikings stadium intrigue.

The legislative conference committee is scheduled to open its formal discussions on merging the two stadium bills at 10 p.m. ET.




*This is not over yet you can still have an effect by e-mailing the committee members if you have not done so yet.
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#280827 - 05/09/12 07:21 PM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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If The MLS wording does get included in the final bill, the MLS team will happen quickly.


http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/journals/2011-2012/20120508117.pdf#Page223

Update May 8th, 2012

pages 7173-7174
Subd. 16. Major league soccer
(1) if any of the NFL team owners whose family owns at least three percent of the NFL team purchases full or partial ownership in a major league soccer franchise, such franchise may play in the stadium under a use agreement with similar terms as are applicable to the NFL team at no additional rent for five years after the first NFL team home game is played in the stadium...


(b) Five years after the first NFL team home game is played in the stadium, the authority and the NFL team shall enter into an agreement providing for rental payments.

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#280828 - 05/09/12 07:32 PM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_205...rce=most_viewed

So Rosen and Ingebrigtsen and Lanning and Hoppe, for example, could not all be in the same room together without establishing a quorum and constituting a meeting of the conference committee, which are open to the public under legislative rules.

http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/schedu...mp;ss_year=2012
Conference Committee on H.F. 2958

CONFEREES:
SENATE:Rosen; Ingebrigtsen; Reinert - HOUSE: Lanning; Morrow; Hoppe
05/09/2012 Meeting scheduled for 09:00 PM in Room 15 Capitol



*If I was still in Minnesota, I would go to this public meeting tonight. If they passed a bill through the committee without putting back the MLS team part of the bill, I would lob one of my soccer shoes at them. grin That would make the soccer news tomorrow.

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#280829 - 05/09/12 08:10 PM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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9:11 PM CT
Live feed on now, meeting has not started yet.
10:00 PM CT start

http://www.senate.mn/media/flashvideo.php


Get to know the committee members

House
*Morrie Lanning Moorhead (R)
Terry Morrow St Peter (DFL)
Joe Hoppe Chaska (R)
* House bill sponsor

Senate
**Julie Rosen Fairmont (R)
Bill Ingebrigtsen Alexandria (R)
Roger Reinhart Duluth (DFL)
** Senate bill sponsor


At 10:05 the live feed from the committee room (the meeting had not started) was dropped and replaced with a live feed from the empty Senate floor... ??

Now we have the Senate floor starting up again...


Edited by jw7 (05/09/12 09:16 PM)

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#280830 - 05/09/12 08:49 PM Re: new stadium [Re: jw7]
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Originally Posted By: jw7
If The MLS wording does get included in the final bill, the MLS team will happen quickly.
Why? Is the next New York team going to play here?
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#280831 - 05/09/12 09:04 PM Re: new stadium [Re: hairygrump]
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Zygi Wilf does live at 778 Park Avenue, in New York City... whistle

Believe, what do you have to lose Grump?

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