{"id":241,"date":"2004-08-09T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2004-08-09T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T21:04:30","slug":"naked-cowboy-releases-study-showing-jets-stadium-poor-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Naked Cowboy releases study showing Jets stadium poor investment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re being a little facetious, but only because we&#8217;re interested in what sort of twisted Google strings will lead folks here. However, it really does seem that if everyone in town has pretty solid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/06\/nyregion\/06west.html\">analysis<\/a> (there&#8217;s a bunch more out there, but why bother linking? There will be a new one tomorrow for Dan Doctoroff to ignore, including one from City Comptroller-cum- mayoral candidate William Thompson, due any day now) to support the patently obvious: namely, that tax dollars shouldn&#8217;t guarantee nor subsidize sports stadia. It&#8217;s a little lost in the muddle of $4 million dollars worth of advertising (which pitches the Dolans versus the Johnsons; just who is Goliath in this one?), but pretty much 100% of the cost of the proposed Jets stadium is dependent upon John Q. Public (the Jets will finance using bonds guaranteed by the city so they get a sweet rate).<\/p>\n<p>Given that the combined net worth of the RWJ IV, Bloomberg and the Dolans would cover the cost of a mixed unit development that would pander to everyone&#8217;s particular franchise needs, why don&#8217;t they do it all street, and you know, buy the land and pay for it themselves? Up next: my mother issues a position paper on the absurdity and patent racism of claiming that the stadium will be good for the Latino community cause there will be all those peanut vending opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re being a little facetious, but only because we&#8217;re interested in what sort of twisted Google strings will lead folks here. However, it really does seem that if everyone in town has pretty solid analysis (there&#8217;s a bunch more out there, but why bother linking? There will be a new one tomorrow for Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}