I don’t see why this is shocking. The entire City Council and the past …5 mayors? All said this was the best deal for the city they have seen. The City wanted this.
From the allegations, it appears it wasn’t to influence, but to see where and how much resistance there was.
The city wasn’t impartial, they W A N T E D this project. And this was before the initiative was on a ballot.
AngelOfPassion
Copying over my comment from r/hockey:
Of course Tempe 1st is involved and scrutinizing every little bit of this process and most likely reported it to begin with. They are insufferable and don’t want anything to ever happen/change in Tempe. They spent millions of dollars opposing the entertainment complex and will most likely stonewall anything else Tempe wants to do next.
I’d like to know where the millions of dollars came from that they used to oppose the Coyotes campaign. And it is laughable that they would then get upset 32k was used by Tempe to try to clean up a landfill and build something useful when they spent millions opposing the project. Fucking stupid.
AZhophead
r/Tempe can’t allow this for sure lol
EBody480
And they still gotta nice landfill!
IPYF
It’s crucial to note that there’s no real assertion yet that the team had the slightest thing to do with this. It’s being inferred by the article to make this spicy, and on r/hockey it’s being taken for granted that we’re the primary villain (because people saw the post and the name of the team, and then information about what happened became redundant).
But, it’d actually be stupendously weird if we – as an entity that isn’t part of the government – were to be even allowed to be involved in the decision making around city spending. I’m not sure how the laws work for you guys locally – but one would think that’d be a worse type of corruption and if it’d happened and they could prove it, they’d have absolutely led with that.
In my view this is just political and realistic after what happened. Corey Woods’ career was probably reasonably unlikely to survive the failure of this campaign and this is probably just the first drumroll to let him know it’s time to start walking to the gallows.
6 Comments
🫣
I don’t see why this is shocking. The entire City Council and the past …5 mayors? All said this was the best deal for the city they have seen. The City wanted this.
From the allegations, it appears it wasn’t to influence, but to see where and how much resistance there was.
The city wasn’t impartial, they W A N T E D this project. And this was before the initiative was on a ballot.
Copying over my comment from r/hockey:
Of course Tempe 1st is involved and scrutinizing every little bit of this process and most likely reported it to begin with. They are insufferable and don’t want anything to ever happen/change in Tempe. They spent millions of dollars opposing the entertainment complex and will most likely stonewall anything else Tempe wants to do next.
I’d like to know where the millions of dollars came from that they used to oppose the Coyotes campaign. And it is laughable that they would then get upset 32k was used by Tempe to try to clean up a landfill and build something useful when they spent millions opposing the project. Fucking stupid.
r/Tempe can’t allow this for sure lol
And they still gotta nice landfill!
It’s crucial to note that there’s no real assertion yet that the team had the slightest thing to do with this. It’s being inferred by the article to make this spicy, and on r/hockey it’s being taken for granted that we’re the primary villain (because people saw the post and the name of the team, and then information about what happened became redundant).
But, it’d actually be stupendously weird if we – as an entity that isn’t part of the government – were to be even allowed to be involved in the decision making around city spending. I’m not sure how the laws work for you guys locally – but one would think that’d be a worse type of corruption and if it’d happened and they could prove it, they’d have absolutely led with that.
In my view this is just political and realistic after what happened. Corey Woods’ career was probably reasonably unlikely to survive the failure of this campaign and this is probably just the first drumroll to let him know it’s time to start walking to the gallows.