Those in support of a plan to build a new stadium for the
Brewers admitted Monday afternoon they still do not have enough
votes to pass a stadium bill in the Senate, but "agreed to push
for Senate action" on the measure today, according to the
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL.  Senator Peggy Rosenzweig yesterday:
"We don't have enough votes yet, but we will by tomorrow."  While
WI Gov. Tommy Thompson said stadium supporters were five votes
shy of the 17 needed in the Senate, Brewers officials said former
Brewers Hank Aaron and Robin Yount would be at the Capitol today
lobbying on the stadium legislation.  Brewers President Bud Selig
and GM Sal Bando will also be on hand to generate support for the
measure (Amy Rinard, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 10/3).
     OPPOSITION:  Meg Jones notes in the JOURNAL SENTINEL that a
letter signed by eight Racine County supervisors calls for the
county's corporation counsel to draft a resolution challenging
the constitutionality of the stadium plan's proposed five-county
sales tax increase.  No legal challenges can officially be made
until the bill is signed into law (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL,
10/3).

     Supporters and opponents of the proposed downtown DC arena
got one last chance yesterday to "persuade" the National Capital
Planning Commission (NCPC) that the project will be a "boon or
boondoggle," according to the WASHINGTON POST.  Approximately 50
people spoke before the 12-member panel, which votes Thursday
(Maryann Haggerty, WASHINGTON POST, 10/3).  Upon gaining approval
of the NCPC, the arena "will have cleared its final major
hurdle."  The project still faces a "pro forma" vote by the DC
Council and final approval by the Redevelopment Land Agency.
Both will act next week (Lorraine Woellert, WASHINGTON TIMES,
10/3).
     JOHNSON DENIED, THIS TIME: The D.C. Contract Appeals Board
yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by BET President Robert
Johnson to prevent Bullets/Caps Owner Abe Pollin from building
the arena.  Johnson's attorney said the appeal will be taken to a
DC Superior Court judge on Thursday (Lorraine Woellert,
WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/3).

     With an October 13 deadline to produce a bill, the MA House
Ways and Means Committee held a "field hearing" last night in
South Boston on the megaplex.  Phil Primack of the BOSTON HERALD
notes that while both crowd size and intensity "were down by a
half," the message was the same as in the summer -- "no way."
Boston City Council President James Kelly: "A stand-alone
convention center is something that people across the board can
live with.  What we cannot live with is a baseball park, and a
football stadium would be equally disastrous."  Representatives
from the Patriots and Red Sox were not present, though they had
appeared before the committee last week.  The next "field
hearing" is scheduled for next week in Roxbury (BOSTON HERALD,
10/3).