...to keep the Republicans out.
I am both a sports business graduate student and a former Republican which makes me pretty qualified to post today on the subject of President Bush trying to influence New York's vote on the West Side Sports & Convention Center (aka Jets Stadium).
President Bush is dispatching his minions, namely White House Chief-of-Staff Andrew Card, to influence NY Assemblyman Sheldon Silver to vote in favor of unfreezing funds for Jets Stadium. Bush wants the stadium built in order to secure New York's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and in order to show off the new skyline in downtown Manhattan where the World Trade Center once stood.
What Bush doesn't care about is the horribly faulty structure of the financing for the Jets Stadium project. He doesn't care that approving the stadium today, under the current terms, will cost New Yorkers millions upon millions of dollars. He doesn't care because we're a blue state and because he and his party have no shot in hell of ever winning it in a presidential election. Hell, they'll probably be losing their GOP governor in the fall too.
New York needs a moat to keep the GOP rifraff out of here. As a former Republican who is totally disillusioned with his party, I say get the hell out of here Andy Card. Go back to Washington and do some real work. We don't need the goddamn stadium today. There'll be other Olympics. Unless the GOP is willing to finance the stadium or restructure the deal in a more sensible way, there is no reason for you to be in this city where you're not welcome.
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I have to echo Mo's sentiments, although I would prefer the moat around Texas to keep them away from the rest of the country. Typically the way most stadium plans this horrendous are crafted is via threat. Some uber-rich owners makes a demand for a stadium that the tax payers pay for or he will leave your city. However in this case thats just not credible. What's the NFL going to do , leave New York?
Of all the pressing needs New York City (I don't know traffic problems come to mind) this is one of the last things NYC should be spending money on. If the national government feels its a priority then let Texas or Florida or some other awful state put the money up for it. The tri-state region subsidizes the South today, shouldn't the tri-state demand a little quid pro quo?
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