City Council Delays Vote On 49ers Stadium By At Least A Year

Santa Clara City Council Extends Deadline For 49ers Stadium Financing Deal Until February

BAD TIMING: In S.F., Ray Ratto writes, "This allows people who are understandably irked by the whole publicly financed-stadium [PFS] scam to remind casual voters that PFS plans are merely a slow-motion swindle to be avoided by anyone in his or her right mind." The 49ers' Owners, the York family, "aren't anywhere close to getting [a stadium]. Not in [S.F.], not in Santa Clara ... nowhere. They're not organized enough, they're not positioned well enough, the cities they are trying to soak aren't flush enough." The Yorks "should be in front of this delay, not behind it." The Yorks "still don't have the Great America people, they don't have the pols, they don't have the voters and they don't have the money, so why not look like you're doing a favor by acknowledging what you already don't have?" This is "a lousy time to ask for money" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/18).

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