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Spursgenius said:
What dies he mean year round rodeo
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Prop A was voted on and passed on Tuesday. It was a ballot measure to raise Bexar County’s hotel occupancy tax from 1.75% to 2% to help fund a $197 million redevelopment of the Frost Bank Center, Freeman Coliseum, and stock show/rodeo grounds — with the long-term goal being to turn the East Side into a year-round rodeo and event destination.
 
Kick-Stand said:
Good thing the area vote was a few days ago and not today lol
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I was going to post that, but I thought it might be going over the top too much. The Spurs got lucky with the timing as I was thinking that the vote might not have passed if it was a week later.
 
good thing the vote didn't come down to the pendulous emotions of this forum.
 
rjv said:
good thing the vote didn't come down to the pendulous emotions of this forum.
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I think the vote fails without the 5-0 start and Wemby looking like the best player in the league in that stretch. I mean it was only +4 vs the +20 the SBC Center vote got right after winning the 99 title.
 
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scott said:
Bexar County has elected to build, and subsequently demolish, a new arena for the Spurs
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that fits right in with the spurs are great, spurs suck swings of some of our more mercurial posters.
 
Kick-Stand said:
I think the vote fails without the 5-0 start and Wemby looking like the best player in the league in that stretch. I mean it was only +4 vs the +20 the SBC Center vote got right after winning the 99 title.
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Yep, that is what I mean. Spurs fans were riding on a high and it may have helped sway it a bit. The Phoenix loss was just one loss and people thought Victor would bounce back the next game.
 
Kick-Stand said:
I think the vote fails without the 5-0 start and Wemby looking like the best player in the league in that stretch. I mean it was only +4 vs the +20 the SBC Center vote got right after winning the 99 title.
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some of the differences that I can think of were 1) COPS/Metro was on board with the county plan after opposing the sales tax increase that Peak had proposed and 2) the Alamodome was not a basketball arena. This was going to be a hard sell in this current economic environment so I was shocked that the prop passed, tbh. in this case, the North Side vote was really the difference.
 
Ice009 said:
Yep, that is what I mean. Spurs fans were riding on a high and it may have helped sway it a bit. The Phoenix loss was just one loss and people thought Victor would bounce back the next game.
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Phoenix loss is probably what it dropped off from +6 in the early vote to +4 after including the day of vote tbh :ROFLMAO:
 
rjv said:
some of the differences that I can think of were 1) COPS/Metro was on board with the county plan after opposing the sales tax increase that Peak had proposed and 2) the Alamodome was not a basketball arena. This was going to be a hard sell in this current economic environment so I was shocked that the prop passed, tbh. in this case, the North Side vote was really the difference.
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Really expected this to go down 45-55 when the season began, and think it would have had Victor not come out of the gates looking like 7'6" Jordan. I always default to expecting these votes to fail though since once you peel away party labels the vast majority of voters hate gifts to millionaires and billionaires. Of course excepting cases like OKC where they just won a title and look to be a dynasty going forward, just like the Spurs did in 99.
 
Gina Jones didn't get the voters message won't go the fuck away. Hedging on whether she'll support the city's part of Project Marvel. Obviously planning a guerrilla war against the Spurs and the new arena. Probably hoping to extort more financial compensation for her supporters and causes.

www.ksat.com

Mayor Jones won’t say if she still wants second Spurs arena election for San Antonio voters

After Bexar County voters signed off on the county’s portion of a proposed downtown Spurs arena, San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones continues to remain quiet about whether she still plans to push for a second election on the city’s share.
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She's a bad politician as far as actual skills, and seems grating to be around, but I have no problem with her being some sort of presence not giving the owners a free pass on everything. Before I was ok with Holt Jr. until I heard him speaking and he came across as a typical rich kid. That turned me off.

A lot of details need to be worked out for this development. It will go over budget, and personally I'd rather the city and the people not have to pay for all the over runs. Perhaps the Spurs are saying they will indeed do that, but I didn't get that sense.

So, I'm not here to defend the mayor, but I'm not siding with Holt either. I just want the Spurs to stay and play downtown and it not to be another cluster fuck.
 
Yeah I'm with Truth on this one... the plan passed and it's gonna get built, now the city's posture should switch to making sure everything from here on out is for the best outcome for the city, not for SS&E
 
Uncle Oscar said:
Gina Jones didn't get the voters message won't go the fuck away. Hedging on whether she'll support the city's part of Project Marvel. Obviously planning a guerrilla war against the Spurs and the new arena. Probably hoping to extort more financial compensation for her supporters and causes.

www.ksat.com

Mayor Jones won’t say if she still wants second Spurs arena election for San Antonio voters

After Bexar County voters signed off on the county’s portion of a proposed downtown Spurs arena, San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones continues to remain quiet about whether she still plans to push for a second election on the city’s share.
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It doesn’t matter what she plans. Mayor is more or less a ceremonial position. She’s basically one member of city council, and she has a title. The council already has the votes, with or without hers.
 
If she were a popular and skilled politician she could use her bully pulpit to pressure the Spurs in the court of public opinion, to some extent, because the Spurs crave their squeaky clean image, which takes work from many parties to maintain.

But she is neither popular or skilled, and I think that is why she will likely have little influence on this matter moving forward --not because the office of mayor offers no potential for power. She just bungled her legitimacy right out of the gate.
 
Uncle Oscar said:
Gina Jones didn't get the voters message won't go the fuck away. Hedging on whether she'll support the city's part of Project Marvel. Obviously planning a guerrilla war against the Spurs and the new arena. Probably hoping to extort more financial compensation for her supporters and causes.

www.ksat.com

Mayor Jones won’t say if she still wants second Spurs arena election for San Antonio voters

After Bexar County voters signed off on the county’s portion of a proposed downtown Spurs arena, San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones continues to remain quiet about whether she still plans to push for a second election on the city’s share.
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she is only a few steps away from that communist Mumdani. Total loser. Worst mayor we have ever had.
 
Robz4000 said:
Only have one person on my social media feeds that was actively against it and he's currently losing his shit :st-lmao:
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Literally saw no downside. A quarter raise in the sales tax to hotels snd the spurs pay a giant chunk.
Also the city came to them about the damn arena bot the other way around.
 
Y'all think the league gave the organization an easy schedule before election day on purpose?
 
Fabbs said:
The 150 million County tax contribution....

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Top county official says giving Spurs owner $150m for arena would have “zero impact” on locals, needs to go back to tax school

With a public referendum on around $150 million worth of county funding for a San Antonio Spurs arena up for a vote five weeks from today, KSAT-TV had Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai, the county's top executive because Texas, sit down for a Q&A on the subject. This was decidedly a choice: Sakai...
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WTF does some NY rag have to do with SATX issues?
 
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