[Utah Binger]

All my pals in Santa Clara California are thrilled about this.

[FewsOrange]

“The city will take on more than twice as much debt as was promised to voters”
“All my pals in Santa Clara California are thrilled about this.”

Your pals are all liberals I assume?

[trumandogz]

“All my pals in Santa Clara California are thrilled about this.”

All your pals are thrilled that their local government is using tax payer dollars to build a billion dollar structure for a private company?

Why are all your pals Socialist?

[GeronL]

Taxpayers get sacked!

Millionaires and billionaires want to play with your money

[PapaNew]

All my pals in Santa Clara California are thrilled about this.

They won't be if they have to commute there. It will create monster traffic jams right in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Much better and what I was really hoping for was a new stadium across McCovey Cove from The SF Giant's AT&T Park, the Tiffany Diamond of Baseball Parks. That is such a perfect and beautiful location, right next to the bay with killer views of the water and the Bay Bridge. It's in China Basin, the warmest, sunniest spot in San Francisco and the ingress and egress is superb with multiple forms of transportation that stops right there.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

All my pals in Santa Clara California are thrilled about this.

I live in the city of Santa Clara and "thrilled" doesn't exactly describe how I feel about this part:

"The city will take on more than twice as much debt as was promised to voters, even though the 49ers vow they won't leave the city holding the bag."

What? As a former 49ers season ticket holder, I paid the Yorks for lousy football in a lousy stadium from the day they took the team away from Eddie D till the day they finally did what everyone else was screaming for them to do and hired Harbaugh. I'm not going to get screwed for more money by the York family. If the terms of this agreement aren't in line with what voters approved, this thing's going to be facing legal challenges.

[freedumb2003]

I just moved from L.A. and I will say the ONE thing L.A. has consistently done right is insist that if the NFL puts a team there that not only will the taxpayers not pay a dime but the NFL (and sponsors) will pay the taxpayers.

We (now they) survived quite well for lo these many years (15+?). Those warm weather cities that pay through the nose for an NFL team are welcome to them (cold weather cities have an excuse).

FYI, it is true what you hear: when you move to Dallas they staple a “Cowboys #1!” foam finger to your forehead and make you take a loyalty oath... ;)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Once again the taxpayer takes the shaft. All for the purpose of bread and circuses.

[Billthedrill]

Well, I think it's a swell idea. This means the taxpayers get in free, right?

Why, yes, actually I do believe in the Tooth Fairy. Why do you ask?

[af_vet_rr]

The funding deal was spelled out in a development contract that caps two-and-a-half years of closed-door negotiations between city and team leaders and essentially completes a planning process that began when the team announced interest in abandoning San Francisco five years ago.

Taxpayers should always be wary when there are lots of closed-door negotiations between two groups of people who are looking to squeeze every dime out of the taxpayer that they can.

[Revolting cat!]

Saint Claire 49ers?

[Revolting cat!]

Speaks well of San Francisco which wouldn’t build them a stadium with private shopping centers and condos.

[TBP]

The A’s have been looking to move down that way too.

[martin_fierro]

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[nickcarraway]

Your friends like traffic?

[cantbetooconservative]

“traffic will be a nightmare””

The games are on Sunday and it is 10 days a year.
Fans start streaming in 3-4 hours before kick off.
It is right off 101, near 237 and 85 and 280
Traffic nightmare? NOT!
it would have been nice to be next to ATT Park, but SF did not even get close to getting it done
plus the weather is better
As a conservative and a Taxpayer, I do not like this at all, but the duly elected city government voted and approved it. So, if you don’t like it, work within the law to vote them out, or file a lawsuit, or move, or whatever you would like to legally do within the confines of the Constitution (Fed and State) and the city charter of Santa Clara.