Public strikes out in ballpark giveaway, but game isn’t over
Mar 6th 2008
Categories: Front Page, Miami, In The News
hiWeek of Thurday, March 6, 2008
While citizens were questioning a $600 million giveaway for a Florida Marlins stadium, county commissioners who were doing the giving had a query closer to home: What’s in it for me?
Ignoring where stadium funds would come from, what government liabilities would be or how the county would be protected as the Marlins controlled construction and land use around the ballpark, most commissioners were only looking for what they could grab for their supporters.
It was the old political cry: Where’s mine?
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