Oakland A’s, Nevada Assembly still negotiating over Las Vegas ballpark
The Oakland A’s cleared an important hurdle Wednesday in their quest to receive $380 million from Nevada taxpayers as the state Legislature approved the deal late Wednesday and sent it to the governor for his signature.
The A’s have all the momentum, not from the team having won seven straight baseball games but from this current streak of political victories, starting with the state Senate’s 13-8 vote Tuesday to approve the team’s $380 million request. Some support for the bill has been strained by the inclusion — and, in one case, the subsequent retraction — of progressive measures that have nothing to do with building a stadium in Vegas.
If all goes as planned for the A’s, the timing would be almost poetic. A fan-organized “reverse boycott” at a Coliseum home game on Tuesday had 27,759 in attendance, with fans determined to show they aren’t the ones driving the franchise away. What would happen during the intervening years? A’s President Dave Kaval has suggested the team would play at the 10,000-seat ballpark used by the team’s minor-league affiliate in Summerlin, Nevada, a half-hour drive from the Las Vegas strip.
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