corruption in Twins stadium vote

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5428296.html

Stadium vote puts friendship in focus
Mike Kaszuba, Star Tribune
May 29, 2005

With the fate of the proposed Minnesota Twins stadium hanging in the balance three weeks ago, Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Stenglein cast a key vote for a plan to use a new countywide sales tax to fund the $478 million project.

Stenglein told an overflow crowd that he was "proud to support" the proposal, and that "big thinkers did big projects." What he did not tell them, although he had discussed it privately with his County Board colleagues before the 4-3 vote, was that he has a close personal and political connection to Bruce Lambrecht, a central figure in the limited partnership that owns the proposed stadium property.

This article was followed by a June 1st letter which pretended(?) to miss the point and said that some politicians-against-builidng-a-stadium have friends who are against it, and that is the same thing. That letter is at:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/5432704-2.html

Please write the Star Tribune to say it's corrupt for a poitician to vote for a project which involves buying land-his-friend-owns.

Their address for letters is:
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[Eric J in MN]

1. I wrote a letter. Anyone else? nt

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