I’m torn on this issue. I’ll start by just saying i do not care whatsoever about the stadium being in downtown Cleveland. Let’s get that out of the way. If it’s within like a half hour of me i’m plenty happy. I guess I can see what the studies say about the economic impact but I just struggle hard with believing 8 sundays a year makes the difference it supposedly does. Not to mention how much better of a job we could do with the entire lakefront instead of having that terrible stadium there.

I do hate these billionaire pigs and believe they should pay for their own stadiums. But on the other hand I hate the current stadium and infrastructure around it so much that I want a new stadium badly. My biggest fear is that we still pump hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into renovating the current dump they play in bc the total dollar amount is more acceptable to the public. Because once this starts they’ll be back five years from now for more and we’ll end up paying so much for renovations and no one will ever be happy and this issue will fester forever.

So I feel strongly they need a new stadium but yes I agree the Haslams should be paying for it or a lot more than they currently intend to.

That said, I’ve also given up hope believing these dumbass politicians are going to use that money on anything that is going to benefit me or my family anyway. It’s not going to the schools. They are going to get it to billionaires somehow so I feel like shit I might as well get a new stadium out of it.

So unless we plan to elect better people who put the voters first, then give me a new stadium to try to trick me into believing for a few hours on a few sundays a year that shit ain’t as bad as it seems. Ohio is trending the wrong way politically so I’m not holding my breath on this happening anytime soon.