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SB43: the hijacking of Santa Clara's City Charter

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Uploaded by on Apr 20, 2010

The SF 49ers want Santa Clara to subsidize their new stadium. Santa Clara's City Charter requires public bidding to select a contractor for projects built with public funds. The 49ers want to select their own contractor. Normally, this would have required a Charter change. Only the people can vote on Charter changes. The 49ers are afraid that 2 ballot measures (one to change the Charter, one to subsidize the stadium) are less likely to pass. So they colluded with CA Sen. Alquist to get a state law passed that eliminates the public bidding requirement.

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  • the whole point was to avoid people running up high contract bids and diverting funds

  • yeah its sad more fatcat local politicians couldn't stuff their pockets full of cash,alot of people missed out on their bribes....such a shame

    

  • sounds like dirty politics and business. thx for exposing this. its too bad many citizens don't know the truth. its a shame this video has only 25 views.

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