Another example of corporate welfare. $55 million dollars of county money to take a baseball stadium away from loyal fans on the West Side and build a new unneeded one where the Dispatch wants it. This is at the same time when the government is cutting all kinds of programs (such as funding for the homeless and the mentally ill). That's $55 million dollars for MINOR LEAGUE baseball. The county commissioners have tried to explain this nonsense by saying that it will be paid off with bonds. Bonds--DEBT--must be paid off. The people of Franklin County will be left footing this bill.

Quite frankly, the Clippers are fine where they are. What this issue truly boils down to is this: 1. Yuppies and soccer moms think they're too good to drive their SUVs from Dublin to the West Side; 2. The Dispatch wants a stadium in the Arena District (which they are part owner of). What the Dispatch wants, the Dispatch gets.

I know that Bob Fitrakis was the man who defeated the 1990's Arena/Soccer stadium corporate welfare give-away. Hopefully he will tackle this issue as well. If this issue ever made it to the ballot, then the people of Franklin County would vote it down.