Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martini's coming up.

Very glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

We have two good Martini for you today, as well as a definite bad Martini.

So Jim, let's dig right into the first good martini and that deals

with sports but not in a way that we normally talk about sports we're not going to

be grousing about the jets and the bears we're going to be talking about the chiefs but the bigger issue

is stadium financing everybody knows how much I love taxpayer-funded arenas and

and football facilities we talked about about Glen Youngkin's plan to do that and

move the Washington Wizards and the capitals to Northern Virginia. I'm not

usually a fan of Democratic obstructionism of the Youngkin agenda but on that particular not

usually a fan of democratic obstructionism of the young can agenda but on that particular one not crying too hard because they needed to come up with funding for it which we were told was not going to come from state tax

but apparently on some level there needed to be and it

died and now the Wizards and caps are staying in DC and they're going to

refurbish that arena but that's not today's Martini. This is from Kansas City

Missouri, E-SPN, the future of the Royals and the Chiefs in Kansas City,

was thrown into question Tuesday night

when residents of Jackson County, Missouri, where the city is,

resoundingly voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium, which is where the chiefs play.

Now the Royals had pledged at least a billion dollars

from ownership for their project

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