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June 10, 2007

Two, three, many Superdomes!

The Louisiana state house passed a nonbinding resolution that what the storm-damaged New Orleans East needs is: a football stadium. The area's state representative, Austin Badon, is pushing for building a $700 million home for the New Orleans Saints on the site of the Lake Forest Plaza mall, which was inundated by Katrina and later demolished.

Though Saints owner Tom Benson has promised to stay at the Superdome through 2010 - thanks in part to the millions of dollars a year the state is paying him to do so - and the dome is already getting a $200 million makeover courtesy of taxpayers, Badon says there's no time like to present to start thinking about how to plow even more state dollars into sports: "This issue is going to be thrust upon us. We have to be proactive before we reach the 11th hour." Because why wait to be blackmailed when you can blackmail yourself first?

COMMENTS

This is why people don't vote.

Posted by indy john on June 10, 2007 10:43 PM

I would hope NOLA has more important issues on hand than, say, a football stadium, like rebuilding your basic infrastructure.

But hey, we all have our own priorities.

Posted by Mike on June 17, 2007 10:02 PM

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