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But what about the Indians monopoly on casino gaming in the state? How is this going to get traction when the tribal leaders are so deep in the pockets of the legislature?

As long as there is no taxpayer public funding, tax financing, tax holiday, tax credit, or any form of public assistance provided to the Block e casino investors; knock yourselves out! The politicians for once need to build a deal where the tax payers are winners if this thing actually is successful and the tax payers are winners if this thing crashes faster than a Brookfield development. If these developers are so sure that this will be successful, they most certainly will have no issue putting their money where their mouths are.

How about the best choice of all: No new funding for no new stadium. The Vikings have a stadium, bought and paid for with a new roof and new playing surface. Take it or leave it.

Polls are inaccurate because they depend on data from people with land lines. Many people, mostly younger, only have cell phones, and their opinions are not included in survey results.

Surveys like this are worthless, as no option is black and white. If the question was, do you support gambling if it means thousands of lost jobs at rural casinos necessitating more government spending on unemployment and welfare benefits, I bet the support erodes. This is exactly why the legislature wont vote to support expanded gambling. They live in a world where gray exists. If it were just a case of indians buying off democrats, then why couldn't large republican majorities in each chamber pass anything this year?

Block E casino. Racino for Canterbury and Running Aces. Casino for Wilfs in Arden Hills, with the stadium. Or tell the Native casino's to ante up $500 million to keep their monopoly on gaming.

Let's discuss how many other downtowns have decided to allow casinos...DETROIT! That's it. Everyone else realizes what a total and complete cancer it would be. We're going to rely on the financial ruin of countless individuals and families to provide financing to a handful of millionaires/billionaires? Should we really be looking at Detroit as the model for our future? I can think of at least 560 other cities that figure out a better way...

"81 percent supported a Minnesota Lottery Vikings scratch-off game to help pay for the stadium, followed by 72 percent who liked the idea of "racino" video gambling at horse-racing tracks." Yeah, I remember seeing the scratch-off people in line at convenience stores asking for a 'scratchie.' And, they weren't all that healthy looking. As for the racino, if the first sentence wasn't enough, how much of the 'take' will be going to gamblers anonymous or other groups who help those who have gambled away the mortgage payment?

Let's stop beating this dead horse. Minnesotans don't want a new stadium. We don't have to keep the Vikings here. Life will go on.

Wasn't this known a long time ago? So why aren't our elected officials working with this idea? I see a lot of posts saying elected officials should do the will of the people, so if the majority says scratch games, pull tab games etc. is ok why not use it???