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multigraincracker

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1. San Diego voted down funding for a sports stadium for a Team, with good results.

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Wed Oct 16, 2024, 07:10 AM

Oct 2024

The NFL's Chargers are the most recent team to move following voter rejection of a stadium referendum. San Diego voters in 2016 defeated a plan to raise hotel taxes for a new football stadium and to expand a convention center. The Chargers then moved to a new privately financed stadium in Los Angeles, sharing it with the Rams, who relocated from St. Louis.

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San Diego voted down funding for a sports stadium for a Team, with good results. multigraincracker Oct 2024 #1

Wow, they succeeded in finding private financing after all - what a shocker!! hatrack Oct 2024 #2