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Throwin' stadium tantrum City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails reveal
It's unfortunate, but this crap happens everywhere. Why is the gubmit looking for free food & luxury suites. Nothing is free really. To get a "free" suite, it means the people's representation gave something of value in return. So while citizens pay taxes, state officials get to go to the game for free. How about no "free" suite, and the Yankees simply pay it's value in taxes like the average citizen does. I wonder what "freebies" gubmit officials in Boston got, when they gave the Redsox control of all the streets surrounding Fenway? I know what the sausage venders got (insert funny joke here) in that deal.
Throwin' stadium tantrum City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails reveal
BY JUAN GONZALEZ AND GREG B. SMITH
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, November 29th 2008, 7:31 PM
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The new Yankee Stadium is not completed yet, but is already causing new controversy.
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Mayor Bloomberg's top aides engaged in a behind-the-scenes brawl to win a free luxury suite at the new Yankee Stadium that could wind up costing taxpayers, e-mails show.
Some of the mayor's top deputies spent months threatening and cajoling to get the free skybox. They even demanded free food and ultimately got most of what they wanted after they agreed to provide America's richest team 250 free stadium parking spaces in exchange.
The loss of revenue from those spaces could wind up coming back to haunt taxpayers if the garage owner - who pays rent to the city - can't pay what he owes.
The Yankees got the city to write a letter to the IRS so they could obtain $942 million in tax-free bonds. The team plans to request $366 million more, saving them a total of $247 million in lower borrowing costs. In return, Bloomberg's team wanted a free luxury suite and the right to buy at cost 180 of the best seats to all home games, including post-season, the e-mails show.
Here's an excerpt from a NYT's article.
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The project required permission from the Internal Revenue Service because of the team’s desire to use tax-exempt bonds to finance construction. In one heated exchange, city lawyers threatened they would not make the request to the I.R.S. for the use of the tax-exempt financing unless the Yankees would consider providing the luxury suite.
Lonn Trust, the Yankees chief operating officer, wrote to the city on Jan. 26, 2006: “For clarity, no seats, no suites, no tickets, and as they say in Brooklyn ‘No nothin’.’ ”
In response, a lawyer for the city, Joseph Gunn, warned that “No nothin’ can go both ways,” adding that if the luxury suite was not included, “We do not submit the letter ruling request.”
Great to see that the taxpayers interests are always front and center.
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Re: Throwin' stadium tantrum City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails rev
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Originally Posted by Wildo7
Just out of curiosity, how did you become a Yankees fan?
I bleed grease, and back in the day when grease bleeders first stepped off the boat, most became bigtime Joe Dimaggio fans. The Yankees had a history of very successful paesans throughout their history. As a result, lots of Italians rooted for them. When I was 7 or 8 years old, and had no clue what baseball was, one of my north end born cousins constantly put into my head that Italians root for the Yankees. When I finally started to become interested in the sport, that influence, my contrarian personality, and Don Mattingly (who's not Italian mind you) helped push me over to the Dark Side. Rizzuto, Bera, Dimaggio, Raghetti, etc. The Yankees looked for greasah's like the Celtics looked for Irish whi...nevermind.
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Re: Throwin' stadium tantrum City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails rev
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Originally Posted by Real World
I bleed grease, and back in the day when grease bleeders first stepped off the boat, most became bigtime Joe Dimaggio fans. The Yankees had a history of very successful paesans throughout their history. As a result, lots of Italians rooted for them. When I was 7 or 8 years old, and had no clue what baseball was, one of my north end born cousins constantly put into my head that Italians root for the Yankees. When I finally started to become interested in the sport, that influence, my contrarian personality, and Don Mattingly (who's not Italian mind you) helped push me over to the Dark Side. Rizzuto, Bera, Dimaggio, Raghetti, etc. The Yankees looked for greasah's like the Celtics looked for Irish whi...nevermind.
Re: Throwin' stadium tantrum City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails rev
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Wow....what a sad story.......
Hey, you lookin to swim whit da'fishes?
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Re: Throwin' stadium tantrum City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails rev
I'm amazed that (according to the Times link) other municipalities have done this. My initial reaction was that this was a PR black hole that would kill the career of any civil servant/politician involved in such a deal.
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This is exactly the kind of thing that got Kraft to stay in Foxboro (where he only has to grease a few slectmen). The best part about this, is that Bloomberg is about as much a Yankees fan, as he is a Republican. He was born and raised a Sox fan, and is now faking both his Yankee fandom, and being a Republican at the same time.
Bloomberg recently got the city council (and by "got" what I mean is "bribed") to change the temr limits law that was installed to stop ed Koch and ended up stopping a Guiliani third term. So he can run again.
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