We are not giving up. The DC Council needs to try and do much more to fix the embarrassing RFK stadium deal and bring real benefits to District neighborhoods!
We have over 85 participants from DC neighborhoods and community organizations participating in this discussion. We need you to join us.
Join us this Friday the 29th at 8:30 AM at Madhatter Restaurant for breakfast and a conversation about how we might improve the embarrassing RFK Stadium deal.
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The current Mayor and Council's RFK stadium deal does not represent our values:
If the current version of the RFK stadium deal is passed in September, at least two thirds of the DC Council will have decided that having the worst stadium deal in the United States is an acceptable outcome.
It will mean that the Mayor and Council will have joined Donald Trump in his historic efforts to transfer wealth from the poorest Americans to the wealthiest. In the District's case, transferring billions of taxpayer dollars and land to sports billionaires.
It will mean that our environmental laws, that protect the health and well-being of our families and neighborhoods, are not worth defending when we are trying to seduce the wealthiest Americans to build their playgrounds in our city.
It means a never ending repetition of the District continuing to give millions when sports teams threaten to leave our city. Just in the last couple of years we have given billionaires too much. Chairman Mendelson proudly shared, after the first RFK stadium deal vote, his leadership in leading the charge to give over $500 million to billionaire Ted Leonsis, $9 million to billionaire Mark Ein, and millions to billionaire Mark Lerner, even as the Congress withheld a billion, the District had a multi-year deficit, and thousands of District residents saw significant reductions in basic services.
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We can do better. Join us on August 29th.
DC Environmental Network
"...when it comes to stadium deals, the only winners are billionaires."
- Robert Reich, Former Labor Secretary