Buffalo is struggling to limit city leaders access to the luxury suites at the Bills new stadium
Last year, the Buffalo Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC playoff game. The Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, billed taxpayers for almost $600 worth of wine and a total bill that day of $1923 and change. As the Buffalo News reported, it would eventually come out that taxpayers had paid “more than $6300” for the governor to attend four different games. According to the state and county, this luxury suite is “meant to boost economic development.” I wish someone would explain to me how…
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If Buffalo leaders want to party at a taxpayer-funded suite during Bills games, it must be kept secret from the public
In 2022, the State of New York and Eric County agreed to give the Buffalo Bills over $1 billion dollars of taxpayer money. Some have called this agreement “one of the worst stadium deals in recent memory”. It is not difficult to see why this deal is disastrous for taxpayers. The State of New York […]
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Monumental Sports lies about having the highest amount of private funding. Then deletes the post.
Monumental Sports was trying to claim on social media that the financing for the proposed arena would include the most amount of private funding for any project in recent memory and one of the least amounts of upfront state cash. One problem? It isn't remotely close to being true.
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Worcester was promised that Polar Park would pay for itself, it has not and will not
In 2018, Worcester, Massachusetts, agreed to finance a substantial portion of taxpayer money to build a brand-new ballpark. Although the city would be borrowing around $100.8 million for this project (making it the 4th most expensive minor league ballpark to be built), city leaders justified this expense by stating how the ballpark would fund itself, if not make the city money in the long term. At the press conference announcing the deal, the city manager told everyone outright that “in…
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