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Chris Wright Response 4
Question 4: Specifically, how much money is it worth to keep the Twins baseball franchise in Minnesota, and what will you do as governor regarding the public financing of sports arenas?
Obviously voter sentiment is against a public stadium for the Twins or
we would have an agreement to build a facility already. With a little
foresight, it would have been a lot cheaper to build a decent stadium
for the Twins and Vikings back in 1977 when a tax was levied for on-sale
liquor but voters are sick of being held hostage to professional sports
franchises.However, I might be convinced to finance a stadium through a tax on legal
marijuana if I can smoke it with my beer and hot dogs in a
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