The emails started coming before the Vikings stadium hearing even started. And they kept coming.
Sen. Sean Nienow, R-Cambridge, was heading in for Wednesday morning's Senate Finance Committee hearing on the stadium bill when he noticed his inbox overflowing.
"I am getting 1 email a minute," he tweeted. "Little overkill guys?"
Most of the emails were pro-stadium, he said, mixed with a few against. Since Nienow sits on the committee that could either move the stadium bill to the next stage or stall it, there are a lot of Minnesotans with an intense interest in how he plans to vote.
"It's good feedback to hear what people have to say," he said. But "jeepers, when you get inundated like that…There's no way you can get through 150 emails at once."
As for wondering how he plans to vote, Nienow is pushing for some changes he thinks would make the bill more palatable. For one thing, he said, he wants the legislation to go through the tax committee before it hits the floor.
"A bill with 174 instances of the word 'tax' (in it) ought to be heard by the tax committee," he said.
As for the rest of the stadium bill: "I'm still waiting for the final product. If finance were to pass this on to the floor and it weren't fixed, I would be a no vote."
