Posted on 10/08/2007 7:44:28 AM PDT by SmithL
Former 49ers President Carmen Policy has just been recruited by Mayor Gavin Newsom to lead the city's effort to keep the team from exiting for the South Bay - bringing the veteran football executive's long journey to build a stadium in San Francisco full circle.
Policy headed the $100 million bond measure drive in 1997 that would have helped pay for a stadium at Candlestick Point. The voters approved it, but the stadium never got built.
Now Charmin' Carmen will serve as San Francisco's go-between with the Niners and the National Football League. He will also help lead a referendum headed for the ballot next June to allow construction of a stadium at Hunters Point, along with a housing and retail development at neighboring Candlestick Point.
"I consider it unfinished business," Policy said of the assignment.
"I'm absolutely thrilled Carmen will be joining our team," Newsom said. "Carmen's track record speaks for itself."
While Policy will be reporting to the mayor's office, Lennar Corp. - which is behind the stadium and Candlestick developments - will be footing the bill for his work as well as for the ballot referendum.
Policy was at the side of then-49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo when the 1997 bond measure narrowly passed. But then came DeBartolo's fall from grace as he was caught up in a federal bribery scandal involving the former governor of Louisiana.
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Bring back Eddie D!
Doesn’t San Fransisco already have too many men running around in tight pants.
Yes, bring back Eddie and Carmen. Get the sister and brother-in-law Yorks out of there. They have ruined the franchise.
A lot of people in Santa Clara are unhappy about that site as well. As currently drawn up, it will amount to another big tax giveaway to an NFL owner.
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