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story from the Star Tribune's Kevin Duchere today

St. Paul City Council member Dave Thune told the Strib that he felt "abused a little bit" that the stadium's design didn't have more community input, although it did have a 

The Strib quotes from a Thune email sent to a representative of a downtown neighborhood group by Ward 2 council member Dave Thune in April:

That doesn't mean, apparently, that Thune won't back the city's plans to build the stadium or to fill in a $9 million funding gap that opened this spring. He's sponsoring the financial cleanup measure going before the city council tonight, which includes revenue sharing and an extra $1 million from the Saints. Here's what he said last week in a Parks and Recreation department release about the plan:

That reflects both sides of the stadium politics debate in St. Paul. An 

that would have kept the massive Diamond Products factory and built the ballpark into the building was championed by 

Thune's most recent city council opponent

, Bill Hosko, but rejected as impractical by the city.

 of the mayoral campaign of Tim Holden, the only 

 to incumbent Chris Coleman. Holden and other opponents say the city took too much parking from Lowertown to build the stadium and should have gotten more from the Saint's owners: "Why so little from the Saints? Looks like taxpayers left in the lurch again," Holden posted on his campaign Facebook page, in reaction to the new financing deal last week.

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It sounds a little like it, in a story from the Star Tribune’s Kevin Duchere today. St. Paul City Council member Dave Thune told the Strib that he felt “abused a little bit” that the stadium’s design didn’t have more community input, although it did have a 15-member design committee. The Strib quotes from a Thune…

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