Voters were clear

Jim Allen’s editorial on moving the high school stadium downtown, parading as “news” on Jan. 22 (“Vision for downtown stadium gets new life”), was very disappointing. Those pushing for a downtown stadium keep pushing a “party line” that the “public was confused” as an excuse to ignore a clear vote, and they keep pretending the parking issues are solved.

From his article: “The parking issues were resolved in October…” This is flatly FALSE. There is not enough parking, especially if there are other events, and there is not enough cheap parking, and there never can be, downtown.

Then he writes that many voters “were so confused.” Again, this is FALSE. Voters made a clear choice. The push for the “downtown stadium” is clearly a push from the same forces that brought us the Riverpark Square scandal that made Spokane infamous in the Wall Street Journal, and I genuinely worry that the Spokane Public Facilities District — which was reported as $11 million over its allocated budget in the Spokesman on Oct. 10, 2019 — is trying to get a piece of the school district funds mixed in to bail it out.

Don’t let insider hacks like Baumgartner mislead you, or raid the school district funds for private ends.

Craig A. Mason

Spokane