Two bills to lure the Washington Football Team to Virginia filed in Richmond

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Alexandria told the Redskins where they could stuff it thirty years ago.

Virginia Politics

Two bills to lure the Washington Football Team to Virginia filed in Richmond

By Laura Vozzella
January 21, 2022 | Updated January 21, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. EST

RICHMOND — Leading members of Virginia’s House and Senate on Friday filed legislation sought by the Washington Football Team to build a stadium and vast commercial complex in Northern Virginia, another step in a bipartisan effort to lure the team to the commonwealth.

The bills, taking shape just days after Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) endorsed the idea Monday in his first speech to the General Assembly, would create a football stadium authority that could oversee the financing and construction of a stadium at the heart of a massive retail, entertainment and residential development.

Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and Del. Barry D. Knight (R-Virginia Beach), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, each submitted legislation. The bills were not identical, so any differences would have to be worked out before legislation could get to Youngkin’s desk.

“Virginia is a football state. We deserve a football team … both as a source of shared pride and of state revenues,” House Majority Leader Terry G. Kilgore (R-Scott) said. “We have a business-minded, forward-thinking governor and House majority, and as we continue to pursue this opportunity, I think it’s important for us to understand how this project and its revenues will benefit the whole state, from Arlington to the mountains of Southwest Virginia.”

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By Laura Vozzella
Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she was a political columnist and food writer at the Baltimore Sun, and she has also worked for the Associated Press, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Hartford Courant. Twitter https://twitter.com/LVozzella

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1. So what, we take the $2.6 B surplus and build a football stadium with it?

Where? Richmond? NoVa? Tidewater? Roanoke?