re: Pels launching D league team

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Why would anyone build an arena for a DLeague team? Most of the players make less than $30k per year and they travel to games by bus. This is not a big money league that's going to spur economic activity. It's a nice perk for a town that will help them fill the schedule on a pre-existing arena.

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The poster I was replying to suggested Covington. Covington doesn't have a suitable arena so they'd have to build one. The Parish President is corrupt enough that if she could personally profit from the construction of an arena, I could totally see her doing it, regardless if it costs the city and parish tens of millions.

She'd figure out a way to raise taxes, probably using the secret special elections they usually hold and don't publicize in hopes that the only people who show up to vote are parish employees who she can count on to vote "yes."

And of course, the tax increase amendment would be written in such a way that even a lawyer would need a translater to make sense of it.