Las Vegas Mayor Says City Had 'great Discussion' With Oakland A's Management

Las Vegas Mayor Says City Had ‘Great Discussion’ With Oakland A’s Management

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ONN – Las Vegas Mayor Says City Had ‘Great Discussion’ With Oakland A’s Management – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner.

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman says she met with the Oakland Athletics management.

And the Mayor of Las Vegas said it via this tweet:

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Right now, the one fact hampering the Oakland A’s move to Las Vegas is the fact that they asked for public money. That was buried in a Las Vegas Review Journal post from this week:

How that would be financed was loosely mentioned during Tuesday’s talks, but the source indicated the A’s are interested in pursuing a public-private partnership, similar to what the Raiders received when they relocated to Las Vegas from Oakland.

The Raiders received $750 million in public money toward the $2 billion cost for Allegiant Stadium. The money is being generated by a .88 percent tax on hotel rooms in Clark County.

The source said there is little desire from the county to offer much, if any, public funding to build a possible MLB stadium.

What a colossal blunber on the part of Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval. Just one week after it was announced that Clark County, Nevada had to draw down $18 million to avoid non-payment of the debt service on the $645 million, here comes the Oakland A’s with their hand out, asking for the public to give them a deal “like the Raiders received” of $750 million in public money (the $645 million bond proceeds, and the $100 million in pre-collected pay-as-you-go funds gathered between fiscal years 2017 and 2018).

Wow. Did the A’s read the Las Vegas press, or Oakland News Now, before embarking on their journey to Las Vegas to then beg for public money?

I will expand on this more, today, because it signals a sea change for the Oakland A’s. The organization is not crowing about privately financing a Las Vegas Stadium; the have been in Oakland.

Stay tuned.

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