It’s blowback time in Florida, where State Senate President Tom Lee isn’t just taking on the $60 million in proposed subsidies for the Marlins, he’s now saying he’d like to get back the $60 million the state gave to former Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga “There are allegations developing that [getting a new subsidy] would essentially represent a double-dip by the Marlins,” Lee told the Miami Herald. “‘We’ve received phone calls from the [Tampa Bay] Devil Rays and everybody who would like to get on that bandwagon if they could. And the well here in Florida is only so deep.”
Huizenga, predictably, said he’d sue if anyone touched his subsidy, which was granted in 1993 for stadium renovation costs, and which he only spent $10 million of on actual renovations. The Herald further reports that Huizenga lobbyist Ron Book, who helped write the 1993 subsidy law – and what’s up with that exactly? – claims that one provision “appears to block the Marlins from getting a new subsidy until all the state money is paid to Huizenga – in 2023.” At this rate, the Florida stadium fight is going to be more entertaining than the just-completed one in D.C. – especially if David Samson throws out some more of those biblical references.
But we will be getting more soccer games at Dolphins Stadium right ??