“We need to be able to resolve this one way or another so we can move on to bigger and more important issues.” -Matt Lewis, IP communications director
“I’ve always thought it ludicrous for the state to ask a small group of people to pay for a statewide asset." -Tom Horner, 2010 IP gubernatorial candidate
“My priority is about the cleanup and implementing development of the [Arden Hills] site. My priority is not the Vikings.” -Victoria Reinhardt, Ramsey County Board Chair
“Every metro area that has ever lost a pro sports team has proceeded to build a new stadium a few years down the road to try and lure one back. So if we are going to do this, we need to do it now, rather than paying 2-3 times more, 2-3 years from now.” -Tom Reynolds, SD46 special election candidate (IP), 2011
“The days of unlimited public funding are over!” ~ Tom Schunk, IP at-large executive committee member
“I would cement my support for racino, which has been declared to be constitutional an which most Minnesotans support. However, in all of this we need to remember that jobs and the business climate need to be more important than one football stadium.” -Sally Paulsen, IP treasurer
"In business, they say timing is everything and the Vikings timing couldn’t be worse. They are the last tenant left in the aging Metrodome trying to find a way out at the same time as we are facing budget deficits and delaying payments to school. While the party leadership on both sides play political hot potato with the stadium, a brave group of Legislators are proposing an old idea getting new life: Allow slot machines at Canterbury Park and Running Aces which will create jobs at the tracks, in the agricultural industry, accelerate payment back to schools and –oh-by-the-way, help pay for a Vikings stadium. Recently a Star Tribune poll showed that over Seventy percent of Minnesotans support this plan." -Cory Merrifield, founder, Save the Vikes (via submitted statement)
Chuck Marohn repeated insights published in a recent post on Vikings stadium sites.
