[49ers News] S.F. Mayor Doesn't Want 49ers To Use City As Leverage

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S.F. Mayor Doesn't Want 49ers To Use City As Leverage

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Posted By: SteveRobWhatever 07-08-2009 , 10:33 PM	#1

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom appeared on CSN Bay Area's "Chronicle Live" last night said he wanted to "avoid being used as leverage" by the 49ers in the team's negotiations with Santa Clara about building a new stadium. "At the end of the day, San Francisco is facing, as Santa Clara and the state is facing, historic budget deficits and shortfalls. We expect to see those for the next few years. I don't want to be used as a pawn, so to speak, to up a subsidy that could be going to anti-poverty programs, go to health care programs or go to economic revitalization -- particularly in the area around Candlestick -- in order to play some game in terms of a competition between Santa Clara and San Francisco." He noted the city has "done everything they've asked us, but clearly their priority is not to stay in San Francisco, it's Santa Clara. They continue to find reasons why our stadium proposal doesn't work. Today, it's transportation, last month it was other things." Newsom said the 49ers "want to go to Santa Clara and have a fresh start." Newsom: "We're just trying to get in a position to be a 'back-up site,' which I think we are. ... I cannot look at finding this a priority to take general fund money from the city and county and the citizens of San Francisco to subsidize something when we actually put together a financing strategy to make it work and got voter approval and Board of Supervisor approval."

Source: SportsBusinessDaily.com

07-09-2009, 01:37 AM

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Good luck Newsom, using the state's economic troubles to make it look like the 49ers don't give a shit about $$$...loser. If as they say everything was done the stadium would be under construction already.

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