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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 951530, member: 716"]
Losing money implies that we had the money or could reasonably expect to get the money.

Joy being an obstructionist and a grandstander is far from attributable to Miner. That she's happy to offer up the same steaming pile of nothing for the next two years that she's given for her entire tenure on the Council has more to do with her ambition than it does with the stadium deal, which is just the latest convenient excuse (see the crap she's pulled in recent years, before the stadium thing came to her attention).

The $16 million, again, just a request that may or may not have been granted. Though if you want to say that her pension op-ed was the reason we didn't get the money, I won't argue with you. (I think her statements on public safety and how that money would be spent are in direct contradiction with one another; I think her public safety record is mediocre at best; I also think her pension op-ed was spot on and would hope that she'd do the same thing if given the opportunity.)

As for the stadium, let's just say that there's a bit of a disconnect between public perception and the probability that that project would have broken ground. Far from a sure thing. I know that's vague, but trust me - she didn't just turn down $500 million.
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