* I won’t pretend to understand what’s going on in Northwest Indiana, but this seems newsworthy to me. From the Gary Post Tribune…
Porter County District 4 Councilman Andy Vasquez was behind Porter County Plan Commission member Craig Kenworthy in Tuesday night’s primary, per preliminary election results.
Kenworthy led Vasquez, the council president, 62% to 37% to represent the Republican Party in the bid for Vasquez’s District 4 county council seat come November.
Vasquez, who is at the end of his first term on the council after being selected by caucus to replace Mike Jessen, previously said that he was primaried by the Porter County Republicans for not towing the party line. […]
The sixth-generation Morgan Township resident [Kenworthy] has said he would not support a 1% food and beverage tax to bring the Bears to Hammond.
“I don’t feel it will be of any economic benefit,” he said. “We have budgetary holes to fill in this county that should take precedence over us helping a billionaire fund a Bears stadium that’s not in our county. I do support the stadium. I just don’t support Porter County paying for it.”
* Vasquez favors the tax hike…
Porter County Council President Andy Vasquez said the Porter County Council hasn’t discussed the food and beverage ordinance yet, and it won’t before the end of this year because new board members will be elected in the November election.
Vasquez, who lost his reelection bid in Tuesday’s primary, said he would support an ordinance for a food and beverage tax because it could help the county amid its projected financial losses as the state begins to implement property tax cuts.
Again, I’m not sure exactly what this means, but I do know that almost nobody is talking about that election result. So, here you go.
And a hat tip to a commenter for sending me down this rabbit hole. /s
- ChicagoVinny - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:30 pm:
Oh how the turntables
- Remember the Alamo II - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:32 pm:
The NFL needs to do something within its own corporate structure to assist teams seeking new stadiums. The collective wealth of all NFL franchises must be larger than the gross GDP of any state or locality.
- Remember the Alamo II - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:36 pm:
=== The collective wealth of all NFL franchises must be larger than the gross GDP of any state or locality. ===
I guess I was wrong about this. Nonetheless, the NFL generated over $23 billion last year. Maybe the NFL can issue its own corporate stadium bonds backed by their revenues.
- Alton Sinkhole - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:47 pm:
==The NFL needs to do something within its own corporate structure to assist teams seeking new stadiums.==
Morally I agree, sadly the NFL is not a moral organization — and people keep giving the teams money.
- Jerry - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:51 pm:
Message to President In Illinois we have budgetary holes to fill in this state that should take precedence over us helping a billionaire fund a Bears stadium.
- Pundent - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:05 pm:
=The NFL needs to do something within its own corporate structure to assist teams seeking new stadiums.=
It’s a feature not a bug. By providing no financial support, and limiting the amount of debt that a team can take on, the NFL is encouraging teams to finance their stadium dreams on the tax payers dime.
- Proud Sucker - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:21 pm:
To the subject, no surprise. I suspect there will be a few other primary challenges to the pro-Bear pols.
To the substance, also no surprise that the Tribbies no longer seem to know how to toe the line.
- Mister Ed - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:25 pm:
The Bears are worth 10s of Billions. Fund your own stadium.
- Jerry - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:31 pm:
Agree with Mister Ed. And fund the civic improvements and then donate them like a Good Corporate Citizen!