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Dynamo: The long road home makes soccer stadium opening all the sweeter [Shelia Jackson-Lee photo]
Houston Chronicle ^ | May 7, 2012 | Jose de Jesus Ortiz

Posted on 05/07/2012 10:34:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife


U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (center) loses her shoe while Houston Mayor Annise Parker (left), Houston Dynamo President Chris Canetti, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Kent Friedman, Chairman of the Board Harris County Houston Sports Authority and El Franco Lee, Harris County Precinct One Commissioner kick soccer balls into the net during the Houston Dynamo and BBVA Compass Stadium ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Houston. Photo: Mayra Beltran, Houston Chronicle / © 2012 Houston Chronicle

........Unable to secure public funding for a stadium in San Jose or even nearby Fremont, it was only a matter of time before one of the league's original franchises bolted in December 2005 and eventually became the Houston Dynamo for their inaugural 2006 season.

When the franchise moved, Dynamo owner Anschutz Entertainment Group hoped to capitalize on the public support that had led to publicly financed new stadiums for the Astros, Texans and Rockets. In their seventh season in the Bayou City, Ching and his teammates finally will be moving in to their soccer-specific stadium.

...There were numerous failed attempts by the Earthquakes to secure a publicly financed stadium in San Jose.

In 2002, there was plenty of talk of renovating Spartan Stadium, which is on the Cal State-San Jose campus. From late 2002 through 2005, the franchise also flirted on and off with officials from Santa Clara in hopes of getting a stadium there.

An opening from San Jose

Officials in nearby Fremont, the Northern California city where Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear was raised, mentioned the possibility of serving as the home of the Earthquakes. There was one problem: They couldn't finance the project.......

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jacksonlee; soccer; stadium
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1 posted on 05/07/2012 10:34:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sheila Jackson-Lee threw a shoe?
Hold on, I’ll get the Horseshoe nails,
one of Y’all get the twitch, she might bite.


2 posted on 05/07/2012 10:41:33 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (center) loses her shoe”

It’s not easy to kick a soccer ball with a cat on your head! Oh!!!!


3 posted on 05/07/2012 10:41:55 AM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hooray for third-world kickball.


4 posted on 05/07/2012 10:42:05 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: tet68

LoL! I tried to think of something clever and couldn’t.

You nailed it.


5 posted on 05/07/2012 10:43:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Batman11
It’s not easy to kick a soccer ball with a cat on your head! Oh!!!!

I don't have the knowledge to pull in on Queen Sheila in the picture, but if it's possible it should be a keeper. Hard to tell if it's a cat or a rat.

6 posted on 05/07/2012 10:48:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

To bad she doesn’t lose her seat.


7 posted on 05/07/2012 10:48:59 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)
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...There were numerous failed attempts by the Earthquakes to secure a publicly financed stadium in San Jose.
_____________________________________________________________The only ‘earthquake’ I see is the possibility of them causing one in that pic!


8 posted on 05/07/2012 10:49:35 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: humblegunner

I’d say that looks like a movied promo for “The Ringer II”


9 posted on 05/07/2012 10:50:16 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: humblegunner
It won't collapse like stadiums in other countries.


10 posted on 05/07/2012 10:51:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So even professional soccer teams are leaving California for Texas?


11 posted on 05/07/2012 10:53:02 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Batman11

That’s Traficant’s wig, on-loan while he’s in the slammer.


12 posted on 05/07/2012 10:54:10 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (((.)))
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To: TurboZamboni

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringer_%282005_film%29

“The film took seven years to get made due to its controversial subject.”

I just read the “plot.” =^D


13 posted on 05/07/2012 10:55:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: cicero2k
So even professional soccer teams are leaving California for Texas?

:)

14 posted on 05/07/2012 10:56:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: ColdOne
To bad she doesn’t lose her seat.

I agree but I don't get a vote in her district.

15 posted on 05/07/2012 10:58:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That GENIUS probably doesn’t know HOW to tie her shoes.


16 posted on 05/07/2012 11:01:16 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Bacon wrapped in bacon, wrapped in bacon, wrapped in bacon...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Roscoe Karns; dead; reagan_fanatic; Lucky9teen

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (center) examines a model of the solar system to see the planets where the astronauts landed.

17 posted on 05/07/2012 11:02:13 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Moon)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They are named “Dyanamo” after soccer and hockey teams in the former USSR. Nuff said.


18 posted on 05/07/2012 11:06:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Well, at least the team’s owners actually put up their own financing for the stadium, though the taxpayers of Houston are still on the hook for $35 million for the land and infrastructure improvements. If the stadium was that important, the Dynamo’s ownership should’ve done it all themselves. If they couldn’t, oh well, play somewhere else until they could.

But nowadays I guess the taxpayer is always supposed to foot the bill for sports stadiums that the owners can get the revenue from. Corporate welfare at its finest.

}:-)4


19 posted on 05/07/2012 11:10:56 AM PDT by Moose4 ("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So Sheila is a toe-basher, huh?


20 posted on 05/07/2012 11:25:23 AM PDT by Obadiah (Resist we much!)
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