VICTORY IN GREEN BAY ... THE DAY AFTER: Packers
President Bob Harlan said the team will "reach out" to the
42,000 people who voted against a 0.5% Brown County sales
tax to approve $160M of the $295M in renovations at Lambeau
Field (see THE DAILY, 9/13) by "working to keep costs down
and pressing for a successful donation campaign" (GREEN BAY
PRESS-GAZETTE, 9/14). In Milwaukee, Dale Hofmann, on
Harlan: "There is no other chief executive in sports who
would have put in that kind of face time and expose himself
to that level of abuse, but he couldn't see this getting
done without the personal touch." Harlan: "I think it's why
we were 47-47 in the polls a week ago, and why we're 53-47
now" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/14). In Green Bay, Tom
Perry: "Financially speaking, voters here took a bullet for
the Packers. In this cynical day and age, going behind a
curtain and voting to increase your own tax rate -- even by
a half-cent -- takes courage. ... From this point forward,
the Packers should bend over backward for the community that
supported them" (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 9/14).
NOTES: AZ stadium advocates kick off their "Arizona
Wins" campaign for Proposition 302, the bill that would
create a car-rental and hotel-bed tax to generate funds for
a new football stadium (AZ REPUBLIC, 9/14)....In
Minneapolis, Tom Jones writes that about 500 toilets inside
the Xcel Energy Center were "flushed simultaneously"
yesterday. Wild VP/Communications & Broadcasting Bill
Robertson said a "few urinals" overflowed, but that "no
damage was done to the arena" (STAR TRIBUNE, 9/14).
