Friday, July 14, 2006

By the numbers

68 - percentage of Minnesotans who believe that the Minnesota Twins professional baseball team should not get public money to build its new stadium (Minnesota Poll)

65 - percentage of Minnesotans who oppose using taxpayer money to pay for any professional sports stadium (SurveyUSA for KSTP)

63 - percentage of Minnesotans who believe that a referendum should be held before a sales tax is imposed to pay for stadium construction (SurveyUSA for KSTP)

11 - number of State Senators from Hennepin County voting against granting the county permission to raise a sales tax without a referendum as required by state law

5 - number of State Senators from Hennepin County voting for granting the referendum exemption (Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka; Linda Higgins, DFL-Minneapolis; Steve Kelley, DFL-Hopkins; Linda Scheid, DFL-Brooklyn Park; Wes Skoglund, DFL-Minneapolis)

0 - number of Republican State Senators from Hennepin County voting in favor of the referendum exemption

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