Monday, July 30, 2012
Sports / Guv'ment Poll finds using hotel-motel tax for new Falcons stadium very unpopular
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:07 AM
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Sixty-seven percent of metro Atlantans disapprove of using such funds for the stadium, according to the poll conducted last week for the AJC by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research.Twenty-three percent of those polled said they approve of using hotel-motel tax money on the stadium, and the remaining 10 percent were unsure. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. [...]
In the poll, disapproval was expressed by 75 percent of men, 61 percent of women, 59 percent of Democrats, 71 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of independents.
Unlike the T-SPLOST, which has also polled low, the use of hotel-motel tax revenues to build a new football arena would not first require voter approval. But you'd think politicians would think twice before doing so if the funding mechanism was very unpopular.
We can't wait to see how project supporters spin the proposal to win public support. Vague threats by Falcons executives of moving the team from Atlanta, perhaps? Skywriters drawing Arthur Blank's face looking very angry? Commercials featuring Samuel L. Jackson weeping uncontrollably, asking the city why we refuse to "rise up?"
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