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Former state Rep. Morrie Lanning was in the audience for today's Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority meeting in Minneapolis. The Moorhead Republican was the architect of the stadium plan in the House last year -- including the financing plan that's worrying some of his former colleagues at the State Capitol.

Here's what he had to say, in an interview about the plan this morning.

Q: The revenues are coming in at about a third of projections. Were the estimates wrong? Why isn't there more money?

Q: That's the suite tax and the scratch off game. The state debt service was initially projected to be more than $30 million a year. We know the back-ups would raise a couple million dollars each per year. Should there have been something else?

Q: Was there a realistic alternative to electronic pull-tabs?

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Former state Rep. Morrie Lanning was in the audience for today’s Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority meeting in Minneapolis. The Moorhead Republican was the architect of the stadium plan in the House last year — including the financing plan that’s worrying some of his former colleagues at the State Capitol. Here’s what he had to say,…

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