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Go Team, Go A great letter by Mr. Amberger in your latest edition (February 18), with which I agree 100 percent. Count me as one among the “tens of thousands of people in San Diego who don’t care one lick about the Chargers.” Boss Spanos got screwed by the NFL and now wants to screw the tax- payers of San Diego. Does anyone believe that if the Carson stadium had been approved, he wouldn’t have left? He would have been gone like a shot. Name withheld via voicemail
Vote Amberger Hey, letter writer Ronald Amberger (“Take Back the City,” Feburary 18). Would you run for mayor? You mirror my feelings exactly about the rich, useless, pro sports teams like the Char- gers and the Padres who want the public to build them a new stadium. I have always thought if
people really love football, baseball, and other team sports, the community would be far better off if they supported their local high school teams. Show up at those games and donate your time and money to them. College sports are also corrupt, with coaches earning millions of dollars. Vote Amberger! Impeach
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On Their Own Nickel Re: “Can Bruce Henderson Be Detained at Guantanamo until This Is All Over?”
(February 11 cover story) Why Matt Potter chose to
go back and dig up the sick- ening old news about the bad old San Diego city poli- ticians, the meddling San Diego Union-Tribune, and the greedy, lying San Diego Chargers defies understand- ing. It’s old news. By now, anyone who watches TV, listens to the radio, or reads the San Diego Reader knows that Bruce Henderson was right all along about what a lopsided deal the city coun- cil signed with the Chargers “almost 20 years ago.” But that was then, this is
now. Why didn’t Mr. Potter devote more of his article to the facts of the latest round of the little people of San Diego versus the big money and downtown power inter- ests (aka taxpayer monies given to billionaires)? In September 2015, the
Taxpayers Alliance (Head- quartered in Washington, D.C.) published a report entitled “How NFL Stadium Subsidies Waste Money and Fall Short on Their Prom- ises of Economic Develop- ment.” TPA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis, and dissemination of information on the gov- ernment’s effects on the economy. The Spanos family has
already accepted money from the San Diego tax- payers under false pretenses and now they’re getting ready to do it again. Wake up, San Diego. We need our taxpayer funds for roads, infrastructure, better edu- cation for the poor, incen- tives for businesses to move here and train, educate, and employ the unemployed — and to create new jobs for the underemployed. If the Spanos family wants
to build a new stadium, let them do it with their own billions and their own bor- rowing power. If they do it well, the value of their franchise will increase geo- metrically as it should in a market-driven American society. And if the people of L.A. are stupid enough to want to donate their tax-
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