Opponents of Las Vegas’s deal to give $122 million to developers of an MLS-ready soccer stadium fell short in their petition drive to get a ballot referendum to repeal the plan, getting only about 7,000 verified signatures toward the 8,258 the city determined was needed. So now they plan to go to court over that 8,258 number, since it wasn’t announced until weeks after they’d begun gathering signatures:
Judge Jerry Wiese is set to hear a lawsuit filed by opponents of the $200 million stadium’s financing plan on Feb. 4.
That suit, filed by councilman and staunch foe of the stadium subsidy Bob Beers on Friday, seeks to knock some 6,000 signatures off the number City Hall says is needed to win a spot on the ballot.
An apparent error in the city clerk’s office saw subsidy opponents scramble to come up with around four times the roughly 2,300 signatures city officials first thought would be needed to put the issue to voters.
The dispute is over whether the number of signatures needed is a percentage of the votes cast in the last municipal election, or in the last municipal or county election — if you really want to read about it, you can do so here. Or you can just wait till Wednesday to see what the judge says.