The good people of Minneapolis and probably 2 or more cities, will be losing their baseball teams, while subsidizing New York's. Indeed, on several occasions, the voters of Minnesota have turned down funding referenda for a new stadium for the Twins, yet now they are going to pay a portion of the cost of TWO new edificies for New York?
My prediction: This will not happen. Guiliani really messed up with this, and it will hurt his legacy and image, which has been awesome since 9/11. Incoming Mayor Bloomberg has NOT agreed to it, and it's a lousy thing for an outgoing mayor to try and bind the new one to a major deal like this. Plus, NYC's Firemen and Policemen , not to mention the teachers, are looking for new contracts with big raises, and to be told they must settle for less, while the city spends a billion to build new playpens for Derek Keter and Mike Piazza, just won't fly. And when the news of this starts to echo around the country, a lot of pols ( Jesse Ventura, are you listening) will start to question the so-far open ended aid bill to NYC...Look, Bush may be popular in NY now, but no way he's gonna carry the state in 2004, and besides, it makes Chuckie Schumer and Yankee "fan" Hillary look stupid, with all their bleats for more aid......
Ain't gonna happen, IMHO, but how do YOU feel??