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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mana who wrote (686948)	6/23/2005 7:55:08 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 769670

I'm not sure anything has changed, what's new?... "... Bush and his partners in the Rangers convinced Arlington officials to: • Pass a half cent sales tax to pay for 70 percent of the stadium; • Use the government’s powers of eminent domain to condemn land the Rangers couldn’t or didn’t want to buy on the open market; • Give the Rangers control over what happens in and around the stadium; • Allow the Rangers to buy the stadium (which cost $191 million to construct) for just $60 million; Finally, after twelve years as the sole occupant and primary beneficiary of the stadium project, the Rangers, a privately owned business, can take title to the most expensive stadium ever built in Texas for the $60 million worth of rent and upkeep they will have already paid the city... mollyivins.com