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San Diego City Attorney Hopefuls Apprehensive Of Competing Stadium Plans For Chargers

None of the five candidates vying to replace Jan Goldsmith as San Diego city attorney "have endorsed either of two local initiatives related to a new Chargers stadium, but their stances on the two measures vary widely," according to David Garrick of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. Each of the candidates -- Republican Robert Hickey and Democrats Gil Cabrera, Rafael Castellanos, Mara Elliott and Bryan Pease -- "expressed reservations last week about taxpayers subsidizing a new stadium." Despite concerns about subsidies, Pease said that he "could possibly support either of the two measures." Castellanos added that he "might support the Chargers proposal if additional details show it would be a good deal for taxpayers." Cabrera said that he was "open to the non-contiguous, off-waterfront convention center expansion envisioned by both proposals, but that he doubts the stadium portion could ever be a good deal based on studies of previous stadium projects in other cities." Elliott said that she "opposed both measures because the city is facing so many other financial priorities." Hickey "declined to take a position on either measure." Pease also "praised both proposals as balanced." He said, "The Chargers plan actually seems all right to me. It would be the voters raising hotel taxes on out-of-towners when they stay here, and that could be a good use of funds to build a downtown stadium that would revitalize the area kind of like what Petco Park did." Pease said that he "prefers the Citizens’ Plan because it calls for redeveloping the site of Qualcomm Stadium into academic facilities and parkland." Castellanos said that the Chargers' initiative "should be viewed as a potential real estate development deal, and that it could be worth the taxpayer investment that the team is seeking if additional details become available" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 5/16).

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