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Pawlenty Backs Stadiums for Twins, Vikings

ST. PAUL-Financing options proposed by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty include using future sales and income tax paid by teams for their separate $500-million stadiums, tax increment bonds and an arbitrage plan.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on March 16, 2004

ST. PAUL-Gov. Tim Pawlenty has proposed an outline for building two publicly assisted stadiums with a combined price tag of $1 billion. Although Pawlenty regularly voted against stadium bills as a member of the Legislature, he sees his role as governor differently and does not want to lose either the Minnesota Twins or Minnesota Vikings while he is in office.

He says his plan does not use state money that would exist without the teams and stadiums. “It’s clear the Twins and Vikings are not going to stay in the Metrodome much longer,” Pawlenty says.

His plan leaves the choice of sites up to a new Minnesota Stadium Authority, who would then negotiate terms with the communities and the teams. His financing plan is more of a range of options, many of them recommended by his bipartisan stadium screening committee.

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