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MN LEGISLATORS VOTE DOWN STADIUM PLAN, END SESSION SINE DIE

          The MN House "overwhelmingly voted down a revamped
     ballpark proposal Thursday night, adjourned its special
     session and possibly triggered Twins owner Carl Pohlad's
     agreement to sell the team" to NC businessman Don Beaver,
     according to Weiner, deFiebre, et al. of the Minneapolis
     STAR TRIBUNE.  Pohlad: "I'm shocked."  Twins President Jerry
     Bell: "It appears that we're out of options."  The House
     adjourned "sine die" at 9:00pm CT, "shortly after a last-
     ditch stadium bill failed on an 84 to 47 vote amid
     objections that the numbers to build a $356 million ballpark
     simply didn't add up."  With the House voting to end the
     special session, the Senate, which had worked on its own
     version of a stadium bill Thursday, "can go no further. 
     Senators were expected to return to the Capitol today to
     call it quits officially and go home" (STAR TRIBUNE, 11/14). 
     Jay Weiner reports that the "last-gasp effort" to get a
     stadium bill out of the House "failed ... partly because the
     bill's finance plan had a $2 million gap."  In addition, the
     finance plan "was deeply dependent on attendance figures
     that the Twins have achieved only once in their 37-season
     history. If attendance hadn't averaged about 3 million fans
     per season over the life of the 30-year bonding period of
     the ballpark, then the finance plan -- reliant on user fees
     -- would have faced troubles" (STAR-TRIBUNE, 11/14). 
          HOT-BUTTON ISSUE: MN House Speaker Phil Carruthers: "I
     have been in the Legislature for 11 years.  Not even
     abortion comes close to this issue in terms of emotional
     response and citizen response."  Columnist Dan Barreiro
     writes the "door has been opened by the Legislature, and now
     it is simply a matter of whether Carl Pohlad wants to walk
     through it" (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 11/14).  
          CAROLINA, HERE WE COME? Mike Solomon, Exec Dir of the
     NC Baseball Committee: "People will realize now that we
     weren't blowing smoke.  We have a team."  But Beaver said in
     a statement: "I feel we still have to be cautious about
     getting too excited" (Foon Rhee, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/14).
     

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