no_cloning

So the state is $10 million short on the $15 million they have to pay the Saints this year? Which means they don't have the money to pay for the deal Blanco proposed. Or at least that's what they want the public to believe. Now they have to borrow the $10 million from the educational fund - as if the Saints are to blame for the poor schools in this state.
This is all getting very annoying.
Taxing tickets to pay for the subsidies of the state to the Saints - that's just an insult. Just find the money - which everyone agrees has to be paid to the Saints, whatever deal may be in place - somewhere in the $18 billion budget and don't act like the Saints are responsible for tax increases.

With all the ill will towards the Saints that this administration is creating, why would they even want a long-term deal? Sounds to me like the state can sound a sigh of relief when the Saints leave and the financial burden is lifted.