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Post by SDSU-Alum2003 on Jan 17, 2015 22:12:41 GMT -8
You're really kidding yourself if you don't think SDSU already has an inside track on taking over the Q site for a "West" campus addition. Once the opportunity is there (Chargers get a downtown stadium or leave SD), the money will be there. That the state can only focus on a bullet train (very silly, IMO, but whatevs) and magical aqueducts (VERY necessary) is silly... of course their will be sufficient attention to expending the jewel of the CSU system. Sorry but you not dealing from facts here. The money will be there? Huh! What money are you talking about? The City has repeatedly said they need the big revenue from selling the site to developers if and when the Charger leave. SDSU does not have several hundred million to buy the site. It has to come from the state of California. Let me know what articles you are reading about how SDSU has a sweetheart deal with the city to acquire the Q at a discount? But, let's see. Would you agree that the next several months of due diligence from this task force should include this West Campus discussion? Where is Elliott Hirschman on this? How about Jim Sterk? Let's see. To back up Hoobs; I have good sources that have confirmed SDSU does indeed have the inside track on the Q site and the city has already unofficially agreed to work with SDSU once the Chargers vacate the property. Fabianni himself even identified SDSU as a potential buyer of the Q site during one of his 1090 interviews.
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Post by aardvark on Jan 17, 2015 22:17:52 GMT -8
Looking back 14 years we see that the ill fate-ed (old age spelling lapse) Jack Murphy stadium "improvement" just had been completed. All saw that it was a mess, and that the city needed Qualcomm to help bail them out. It was at that time when we had a better understanding of the Golding seat guarantee. Not the best time to be looking for a new stadium. What followed was the almost bankruptcy of the city, and the always agreeable Mike Ag-garry. Yes, the Charges must share in the blame, but they are not alone. But for Aztec football, I don't care if they stay or leave. Geezus, what's with the city of San Diego anyway? You also had an ex-mayor whose 8 year gambling activity totaled over $1 billion!! How much of that money came from the city's coffer? That probably contributed to San Diego's debt, then the housing crisis put it into real deep shit.
Allegedly, her gambling began long after she left the mayor's office, by about 8 years.
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Post by aztech on Jan 17, 2015 23:01:03 GMT -8
Geezus, what's with the city of San Diego anyway? You also had an ex-mayor whose 8 year gambling activity totaled over $1 billion!! How much of that money came from the city's coffer? That probably contributed to San Diego's debt, then the housing crisis put it into real deep shit.
Allegedly, her gambling began long after she left the mayor's office, by about 8 years. Allegedly? Get real. That amount of gambling does not start late in a person's life. If it was $1 million, OK. But over a billion, who you trying to kid?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 23:42:13 GMT -8
How much is the cost of the task force(taxpayer money we don't have)? lol And why does government always have its damn dirty hands in a private sector concern?
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Post by aardvark on Jan 17, 2015 23:45:24 GMT -8
Allegedly, her gambling began long after she left the mayor's office, by about 8 years. Allegedly? Get real. That amount of gambling does not start late in a person's life. If it was $1 million, OK. But over a billion, who you trying to kid? Feel free to prove any of her gambling money was somehow obtained from the city coffers. Any story I have ever seen says she didn't even start gambling until 2001--at least 8 years after she left the mayor's office. She was charged with taking $2.1 million from her late husband's foundation, and it was estimated that she lost and won more than $1 billion through gambling. She didn't steal $1 billion to gamble, and didn't steal any money from the city.
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Post by aztech on Jan 17, 2015 23:55:56 GMT -8
Allegedly? Get real. That amount of gambling does not start late in a person's life. If it was $1 million, OK. But over a billion, who you trying to kid? Feel free to prove any of her gambling money was somehow obtained from the city coffers. Any story I have ever seen says she didn't even start gambling until 2001--at least 8 years after she left the mayor's office. She was charged with taking $2.1 million from her late husband's foundation, and it was estimated that she lost and won more than $1 billion through gambling. She didn't steal $1 billion to gamble, and didn't steal any money from the city. I'm not gullible enough to believe your post. Sorry.
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Post by aardvark on Jan 18, 2015 0:38:36 GMT -8
Feel free to prove any of her gambling money was somehow obtained from the city coffers. Any story I have ever seen says she didn't even start gambling until 2001--at least 8 years after she left the mayor's office. She was charged with taking $2.1 million from her late husband's foundation, and it was estimated that she lost and won more than $1 billion through gambling. She didn't steal $1 billion to gamble, and didn't steal any money from the city. I'm not gullible enough to believe your post. Sorry. Great.
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Post by gocoaztec on Jan 18, 2015 6:04:13 GMT -8
Why doesn't the City of San Diego want a modern stadium for the Chargers, Aztecs, concerts, special events, Superbowls, College championship, Final Four (maybe), political events, religious events, monster trucks, supercross, high school football finals, and whatever else it can be used for?
SD is well on the way to becoming a second-tier city. Very unfortunate.
Go Aztecs!
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Post by AztecSports95 on Jan 20, 2015 10:21:25 GMT -8
I wasn't blaming Cushman. I still blame Susan Golding. She wanted Spanos to support her for the Cali senate seat, and gave him the seat guarantee as a pay off. The seat guarantee soured non=football fans against anything the Chargers have asked for since. And, the city (Golding) gave it to them. I believe that if the proposal for a new community stadium had been proposed way back then, it would have had a much better chance. 13-14 years ago the Chargers were making the rounds, selling their plan to community groups, etc. Then they stopped. They never proposed taking it to a vote. They deferred to the city to get this done for them. Sorry, but this is THEIR project. All they are doing now is deflecting blame for not getting it done. What plan have the Chargers brought forward in recent years? When the Padres wanted Petco Park built, they took the lead, they ran the road shows, the sold the stadium to San Diegans. They had political support. But it was a Padres campaign. All the Chargers have done is whine and complain that WE haven't given THEM their stadium. Boo frickin hoo! Apparently Larry Lucchino agrees with me. Good read by Kevin Acee on the stadium issue: www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jan/20/chargers-lucchino-spanos-stadium-acee/
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Post by namssa on Jan 27, 2015 11:17:59 GMT -8
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Post by rebar619 on Jan 27, 2015 15:52:24 GMT -8
That story is nothing but a debunked rumor. Nothing to see here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 16:07:07 GMT -8
Who debunked it?
Link?
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Post by Luchador El Guerrero Azteca on Jan 27, 2015 16:41:32 GMT -8
Pass interference on Perez.....another...ticky-tack call. Not sure if debunked but the original that everyone quotes is gone and there's nothing from the referenced author.
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