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But the team learned loyalties in this town for teamsz not wearing scarlet and gray canbe fleeting. It took just days to put the Jackets love affair on the rocks from the time Columbus Business Firstt reported the club was in talks to sell Nationwide Arena using alcohol and cigarette taxea to fund the deal to when lawmakersa saidthey wouldn’t help after publix uproar over the plan. Few can dispute the role in this region’s identity. The organization may have put a pitiful team on the ice for but being a part of the pro sportas clique gives Columbus the national profile it pursuecfor decades.
And image and quality of life can be key ingredients ineconomic development, which this area must be concerned with as it triee to withstand the recession. Which raises questions about the Jackets’ proposal and their timing. Should they have expectee anything other than a backlash when suggestinfg a plan to take moneyfrom families’ pockete when many are struggling? Columbus is sagging under recordr unemployment, and the team felt it appropriate to talk about dumpinh its financial problem onto hurtinh taxpayers? Did they expect the public would throw open its arms to pickinvg up the tab for handsomely paid itineranyt athletes?
Were they surprised theid legislative champions came to see the propositionn for its economic and political absurdity?