Small potatoes good news. Shitty Midwest city flips off billionaire sports team owner and prevents a 2 billion theft from taxpayers to ruin their somewhat interesting arts district… for now.
The 3/8th-cent sales tax extension would have helped build a new Kansas City Royals stadium downtown as well as fund renovations at Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs. Tuesday's vote followed months of intense campaigning from both teams, and a concerted opposition from community and activist groups.
Owner threatens to take the teams somewhere he can get free money to ruin a historic part of a different city
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said in a statement on X Tuesday night, as votes rolled in and "no" votes pulled out ahead, "the people of Kansas City and Jackson County love the Chiefs and Royals."
"Today, they rejected plans and processes they found inadequate. Over the months ahead, I look forward to working with the Chiefs and Royals to build a stronger, more open, and collaborative process that will ensure the teams, their events and investments remain in Kansas City for generations to come," he said.
Oops, there is is. Not going to let a little thing like democracy get in the way of robbing the public and putting the money in capitalist hands.
nah i'm from the midwest, activism isn't strong enough to un-shit the place. we need a fuckload of civic political power to bring back street cars and shit to do that.
the tenant union was apart of a quickly constructed "no" campaign, and it succeeded, even tho this neck of the woods is full of sportsball brained libs and straight up nazis. I was really surprised when I saw this headline, I'm also from around here
They did build a tiny street car, but it’s just a mile long stretch that connects the corporate mega projects to the open container alcohol zone. Hopefully one day it can turn into a useful alternative to owning a car in a city full of empty private parking lots.
I remember when Wisconsin cut it's university system by 300m and then gave a 300m tax credit to the Milwaukee Bucks. glad somebody isn't doing that for once
The best part of this proposed tax was them admitting it would earn them 2 billion over 40 years but don’t worry it’ll bring 200 million in new revenue over the same period.