Post a Comment On: A Nod to Nothing

Yeah...lower taxes...that's why you elect them. So St. Paul, how does it feel to get shafted for about $75 million by Norm Coleman just so he can recoup $45,000 or so in political donations?

"In 1997, in order to lure Lawson Software from Minneapolis, then-St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman agreed to spend more than $100 million on a new office tower for the company. Three years later the city turned around and sold the building to developer Frauenshuh Companies. Price tag? $54.5 million. For inexplicable reasons, the building had supposedly lost half of its value in less than a decade."