The mayor made two separate attempts to derail this deal. She worked hard to increase the odds that Spurs ownership would possibly start weighing other cities as options. (Some will say “that was never really on the table anyway” .. Never say never. You don’t take a great thing or great opportunity for granted. Make whatever excuses for her you want. The fact remains: she worked against one of the best deals a small-market city has ever landed for a pro sports team and arena. That shouldn’t be forgotten going forward. Twice. She tried twice. Thank you council members Kaur, Viagran, Gavito, White, Spears, and Gonzalez. Now let’s all get on the same train and work through the other aspects to get this project going.

Shocking. Willing to bet he dreaded PE growing up and was always out first in dodgeball. Voters already approved this. Props A and B passed at the ballot box. This isn’t some backroom deal he’s uncovering, it’s the will of the people he claims to represent. The $489m comes from hotel and rental car taxes. Visitors pay it, not residents. Most of the rest is state hotel tax revenue that already goes back to Austin if we don’t use it. Dallas and Fort Worth already use the same tool for their own venues. San Antonio finally deciding to compete instead of watching that money leave is not “horrific” it’s beyond overdue. The Spurs already offered revenue sharing, $75M over 30 years with no strings attached. And that’s on top of the countless hours they’ve poured ( and continue to pour) into this community and our kids ( they’ve been doing it since 1989) , giving kids encouragement and giving kids hope — placing wind under their sails to strive to do good things. I know because I was one of those kids over 30+ years ago. No economic study will ever quantify that. And no councilman’s opinion on a video live from his bed in a wife beater will change what this city already voted for.

So embarrassing. This isn’t leadership. Far from it actually.

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She is recycling the same misleading framing she used before the first vote. Acting like this $489M can just be redirected to close the budget gap when it legally CANT. Nothing’s changed. She lost that fight once to the Spurs and San Antonio and she clearly isn’t ready to accept it. Shes miserable.