Smith: Mesa has options to keep Cubs

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• Slow One posted at 4:41 pm on Tue, May 25, 2010.

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  Corporate welfare, there's no other name for it.

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• golfboy posted at 11:23 pm on Tue, May 25, 2010.

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  I realize many will question the logic yet again of spending the money trying to retain the Cubs, but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone spending cash to buy a condo in Mesa in the last 4 months to help enable me and my family to watch our favorite team and enjoy the Mesa area.

  I get the fact that the area is depressed but I struggle to understand the short term thinkers that beleive the Cubs aren't good for the long term financial health of Mesa. Even the non-baseball people should get the financial impact of a Cubs complex that includes attractions that will keep the Cub fans money in Mesa...

  Let's find a way to make this happen!

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• Hotcopone posted at 11:45 pm on Tue, May 25, 2010.

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  I believe the Cubs are needed but at what price?

  With the current economic conditions it surely isn't a good time to be asking for the taxpayers of Mesa to fork up close to 100 million dollars.

  Where was Mesa when the Cards stadium was looking in Mesa? The taxpayers really goofed on that one but that would have brought way more money into Mesa.

  And do you think the taxpayers are going to go for this one? I doubt it.
  You have owners who paid over 800 million for a losing ball team and they surely could pay for their own stadium but it really isn't anything other than corporate welfare.

  I would love to come to mesa with a business and ask for Mesa to pay to build it for me so I can employ people.
  If this new idea has anything to do with taxpayer funded monies, good luck Mayor. You're gonna need it.

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• Eisman57 posted at 2:03 am on Wed, May 26, 2010.

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  Even the most vocal critics will acknowledge the Cubs deliver 10's of millions of dollars annually to Phoenix/Mesa. This is better described as an investment in a long-term partnership that will more than pay for itself through tax revenue and direct support to local businesses. "Corporate welfare" is a catchy buzz phrase but hardly applies here.

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• wdgnas posted at 4:27 am on Wed, May 26, 2010.

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  and yet another money tree is found growing in mesa...

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• votenomesa posted at 6:46 am on Wed, May 26, 2010.

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  Mayor Smith - take a page from the Obama playbook - just print more money.

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