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doubts started about the Minnesota's expectations for electronic pulltabs

, the drumbeats are starting for a re-do on the 

Skeptics have long called for the Vikings to put more into the deal, but the sagging revenue for the state's share has kicked off a new round of second-guessing, and calls by opinion makers to reboot the two-year stadium battle waged at the Capitol.

Today, it's Rubén Rosario, over at the Pioneer Press, in a column headlined "

Vikings stadium deal was fool's gold. Legislators need to try again

." He's a little fuzzy on the math: the drop he cites from $35 million to $1.7 million was not in annual revenue last year, but in a reserve fund planned by the state for this biennium. But his point lies elsewhere. Here's the end of his column:

Over at Opine Season, Minnposter and (briefly) former Mark Dayton advisor Brian Lambert 

 for the Vikings deal in general and the electronic pulltab part in particular. Long a critic of the deal, he offers a five-point indictment, starting with "a lone-wolf, oddball of a Governor." Then, he says:

And over at Minnpost, Marlys Harris asks the question "

Vikings stadium buyer's remorse? I've got it bad, do you?

A critic of the deal, she also notes the 

 and charitable gambling lobbyist King Wilson's 

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A year after doubts started about the Minnesota’s expectations for electronic pulltabs, the drumbeats are starting for a re-do on the state’s side of the Vikings stadium deal. Skeptics have long called for the Vikings to put more into the deal, but the sagging revenue for the state’s share has kicked off a new round…

Vikings stadium opinion roundup: Calls for deal do-over at the Capitol

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