Gov. Mark Dayton kept up his weekend cheerleading for a new Vikings stadium, rallying fans at Mac's Industrial Sports Bar in Minneapolis on Sunday, the eve of a crucial stadium vote in the House.
At the rally, the governor schmoozed with Craig Danzl of St. Cloud, a Republican who said he voted for Dayton because of his support for a nearly $1 billion new roofed stadium at the site of the Metrodome.
The Vikings are "a way of life for so many people," Danzl said.
The funding plan is $427 million from Vikings, $150 million from Minneapolis, $398 million from state (via expansion of charitable gambling), to build the stadium.
If the House passes the bill, the Senate will vote. If the two bills differ, they will go to conference committee and then sent back to the House and Senate for final passage. That bill then would go to Dayton for his signature.
