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Originally Posted by pylon
I personally think Nenshi would rather see the team leave either way, just to say he won the battle against the billionaires, and have great material for a book about how the little mayor slayed the big beast. I really have never got the feeling the guy even gives a flying F about the team or the game.
It's one thing to gently oppose it, and maybe throw out viable suggestions. It's another thing to publicly poke the bear, draw a hard line in the sand, and insult the team owners and league governers.
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seriously he's looking out for the city, spending hundreds millions of dollars of tax payers money on an arena that will take a long time to recoup is not in the cities interest.
Calgary is not just the flames, and Nenshi does NOT have to meet with a billionaire in New York saying the city needs to spend money on an arena, the NHL does NOT have the interests of the city in their mind.
I'm sorry guys, but all of you attacking Nenshi right now are sounding like little children throwing tantrums.
How about getting frustrated with the Flames ownership group for throwing out a horrible proposal that is not well thought out? Why are you going after Nenshi when this is not his problem, it is the Flames problem. You have billionaire owners trying to get the tax payers to pay for their arena, but yet you are all mad at the person who actually has Calgary's best interest in mind.
It's simple math/economics - if the city spends 200 million on an arena, that's 200 million they have to cut from something else, or raise taxes to everyone in Calgary for what maybe only 50% (probably a high %) support.