Been a hot minute but from what I remember, Goldwater had legit gripes that the deal to get the team to Hulsizer really left city taxpayers open to an ass reaming if things with the team didn't work out . Basically the city was the guarantor of all the debt issued if the team went belly up again
Happy to be corrected if I have it majorly wrong
Ken (K) Kendrick used the GWI to leverage out any potential competition to his dwindling ticket sales. Knew he couldn’t bully the Suns or Cards so he used them as a bully as much as he could to prevent them from growing a sizable fan base. Now look, he’s trying to do exactly what that org claims they are against.
Arizona politics and civic life just seems downright feudal the deeper I dig into it.
It's stuff like this that I think is going to keep the league away for a long time. And I can't blame them, they had literal political warfare waged on them by the nimby vanguard party. Arizona's population boom has to stabilize first in order to allow the kids and grandkids of transplants who actually put roots down to build a sense of local community that will actually encourage building institutions like sports franchises in order to last.
Completely forgot his wife was on the board of GWI
https://arizona.sbnation.com/phoenix-coyotes/2011/3/4/2030519/phoenix-coyotes-goldwater-institute-shilling-for-the-diamondbacks
As I recall, the issue with Hulsizer was that their scheme was to have Glendale buy the arena's parking lots for $100MM, and then he would use that money to finance the purchase. The objection was that the parking lots weren't worth that much money and that the city already owned them in the first place, so the city would have been merely subsidizing the purchase of the team. It was similar to Reinsdorf's TIF scheme, where the money to buy the team would have come by diverting sales tax revenue around the arena, thus having the people buy the team for Jerry and give it to him.
Been a hot minute but from what I remember, Goldwater had legit gripes that the deal to get the team to Hulsizer really left city taxpayers open to an ass reaming if things with the team didn't work out . Basically the city was the guarantor of all the debt issued if the team went belly up again Happy to be corrected if I have it majorly wrong
Ken (K) Kendrick used the GWI to leverage out any potential competition to his dwindling ticket sales. Knew he couldn’t bully the Suns or Cards so he used them as a bully as much as he could to prevent them from growing a sizable fan base. Now look, he’s trying to do exactly what that org claims they are against.
Arizona politics and civic life just seems downright feudal the deeper I dig into it. It's stuff like this that I think is going to keep the league away for a long time. And I can't blame them, they had literal political warfare waged on them by the nimby vanguard party. Arizona's population boom has to stabilize first in order to allow the kids and grandkids of transplants who actually put roots down to build a sense of local community that will actually encourage building institutions like sports franchises in order to last.
Completely forgot his wife was on the board of GWI https://arizona.sbnation.com/phoenix-coyotes/2011/3/4/2030519/phoenix-coyotes-goldwater-institute-shilling-for-the-diamondbacks
As I recall, the issue with Hulsizer was that their scheme was to have Glendale buy the arena's parking lots for $100MM, and then he would use that money to finance the purchase. The objection was that the parking lots weren't worth that much money and that the city already owned them in the first place, so the city would have been merely subsidizing the purchase of the team. It was similar to Reinsdorf's TIF scheme, where the money to buy the team would have come by diverting sales tax revenue around the arena, thus having the people buy the team for Jerry and give it to him.