San Diego Mayor Calls Out Chargers Over Stadium
- Updated: June 18, 2015
(Photo via Twitter User @BFTB_Chargers)
The mayor of San Diego, Kevin Faulconer, had some choice words for the San Diego Chargers organization. The mayor was ready to criticize team for their negotiations “in bad faith” while trying to move their team to LA.
Falconer revealed the Chargers cited “environmental concerns” on a December 15 vote, but he, along with city attorney Jan Goldsmith, released a statement saying those issues could be overcome. An excerpt is below:
“At the urging of the NFL and the Chargers, we have presented the team with multiple legally defensible options that fully comply with state environment law and would conclude with a public vote this year on a new stadium,” the statement read.
“For the first time in seven months of incredibly hard work from the City, County, and the CSAG, the Chargers did something honest – walk away from the table,” a political consultant for Faulconer, Jason Rose, said Wednesday in a separate statement.”
The Chargers attorney fired back to say they disagree with the city’s assessment of the environmental problems that come with the proposed plans. The following was said:
“The Chargers will never be part of the city’s legally dubious effort to deal with the California Environmental Quality Act,” team counsel Mark Fabiani said.
“City officials are of course free to drive themselves off of the cliff into legal oblivion with a half-baked Environmental Impact Report, but the team has no intention of hitching itself to the City’s misguided, doomed scheme.”
SINow.com reports, “Faulconer’s financial plan for the stadium includes receiving $121 million each from county and city taxpayers and $225 million from selling city land at the current site of Qualcomm Stadium.”
I think this stadium battle is far from over! Stay tuned to see what happens next, because shots have definitely been fired.
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