[Speed Gibson,
Friday May 26, 2006 at 1:52am]
One foot in Euphoria
After berating a school principal for removing "In God We Trust" from the image of coin on its yearbook, altering facts unrelated to the yearbook or the school, Joe Soucheray said this on Monday:
Joe has been allegedly dancing on the Twins stadium issue for several years, torn between opposing corporate welfare and wanting a stadium regardless. I haven't bought a word of it. Sure enough, when the deal loomed, Soucheray's feigned integrity collapsed.
He has been posing a number of conveniently phrased lemmas like the above to support his position. Another was "well, what else would you spend the money on that would be of equal value?" Or this one: "Do you really think Carl Pohlad is now rubbing his hands with glee now that he'll get 3 cents of every $20 dollars we spend?" And, "our fathers and grandfathers built ballparks, why can't we? It's our turn!"
All of this is incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, your honor. Joe is often master of the logical argument. Here, he has carefully avoided any semblance of such.
On this issue, Joe Soucheray is a card-carrying Euphorian.
"If there was a way to accurately poll every Minnesotan, I bet more would favor keeping professional baseball than would favor abandoning it."
Joe has been allegedly dancing on the Twins stadium issue for several years, torn between opposing corporate welfare and wanting a stadium regardless. I haven't bought a word of it. Sure enough, when the deal loomed, Soucheray's feigned integrity collapsed.
He has been posing a number of conveniently phrased lemmas like the above to support his position. Another was "well, what else would you spend the money on that would be of equal value?" Or this one: "Do you really think Carl Pohlad is now rubbing his hands with glee now that he'll get 3 cents of every $20 dollars we spend?" And, "our fathers and grandfathers built ballparks, why can't we? It's our turn!"
All of this is incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, your honor. Joe is often master of the logical argument. Here, he has carefully avoided any semblance of such.
On this issue, Joe Soucheray is a card-carrying Euphorian.
There is a way: hold a referendum. The Twins were agains this because they knew that the majority of Minnesotans (or Hennepin county residents, or whoever was going to be forced to pay) didn't want to pay for a new stadium to keep the Twins in MN, and would have voted against it.