Dallas Residents Oppose Cotton Bowl Upgrades
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Poll: Dallas Citizens oppose Cotton Bowl renovations: Almost half of Dallas residents say the city should pull the plug on a planned $50 million face-lift for the Cotton Bowl, according to a Dallas Morning News poll. Even though the City Council strongly supports the renovation, 48 percent of those polled last week said the investment doesn't make sense now that the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, the January collegiate bowl game, has announced that it's leaving in 2010. Forty percent said the city should go ahead with the improvements anyway. The remaining 12 percent weren't sure or had no opinion. Six in 10 people said local officials should have tried harder to lure the Cowboys back to Dallas in 2004, when the team announced that it was in the market for a new home. Told of the poll's findings, Dallas Mayor Laura Miller said she still supports further investment in the Cotton Bowl. She noted that local officials are working to lure other collegiate teams. "I feel confident that we will have at least one new football game announcement for the Cotton Bowl before I leave office," said the mayor, whose term expires in June." (In part and more at Dallas Morning News) Note: The poll, conducted for the The News by Blum & Weprin Associates Inc. of New York, was based on telephone interviews with 601 Dallas residents this past Monday through Wednesday. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Interestingly Dallas voters approved proposition 3, including Cotton Bowl bond by a 81-19% margin in November 2006 election.
Poll: Dallas Citizens oppose Cotton Bowl renovations: Almost half of Dallas residents say the city should pull the plug on a planned $50 million face-lift for the Cotton Bowl, according to a Dallas Morning News poll. Even though the City Council strongly supports the renovation, 48 percent of those polled last week said the investment doesn't make sense now that the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, the January collegiate bowl game, has announced that it's leaving in 2010. Forty percent said the city should go ahead with the improvements anyway. The remaining 12 percent weren't sure or had no opinion. Six in 10 people said local officials should have tried harder to lure the Cowboys back to Dallas in 2004, when the team announced that it was in the market for a new home. Told of the poll's findings, Dallas Mayor Laura Miller said she still supports further investment in the Cotton Bowl. She noted that local officials are working to lure other collegiate teams. "I feel confident that we will have at least one new football game announcement for the Cotton Bowl before I leave office," said the mayor, whose term expires in June." (In part and more at Dallas Morning News) Note: The poll, conducted for the The News by Blum & Weprin Associates Inc. of New York, was based on telephone interviews with 601 Dallas residents this past Monday through Wednesday. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Interestingly Dallas voters approved proposition 3, including Cotton Bowl bond by a 81-19% margin in November 2006 election.
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