Members of the San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio Rodeo, and local business leaders gathered to emphasize the economic, cultural, and community benefits of Propositions A and B. <\/p>\n
At a press conference, they aimed to address what they described as “misperceptions of how these projects will be funded and how the entertainment venue tax can be applied.”<\/p>\n
Phil Cullen, vice president of basketball organizational development for the San Antonio Spurs, highlighted the local impact: <\/p>\n
“Thousands of local jobs: construction, operations, small businesses will keep our focus on hiring locally, minority grown vendors, homegrown entrepreneurs.” he added, “And here is the key, local taxpayers aren’t paying more. These projects are funded through hotel and rental car taxes paid by visitors and by over $2 billion in private investment from the San Antonio Spurs. The largest in San Antonio’s history, and we are covering all cost overruns.”<\/p>\n
However, not all voters are convinced. <\/p>\n
One voter expressed skepticism, saying, “No, I honestly think it’s a waste of money, the economy the way it’s going, you think it’s gonna survive by tourism coming here, it’s not.”<\/p>\n
Voters are reminded to bring a valid form of ID, such as a driver’s license, military ID, or passport, to the polls. Alternative forms of identification include a bill with your name, a bank statement, a pay stub, or a birth certificate. <\/p>\n
Additionally, wearing Spurs or Rodeo-themed clothing is prohibited at polling places, as it violates electioneering laws.<\/p>\n
Early voting ends on Halloween night, with Election Day set for Nov. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio Rodeo, and local business leaders gathered to emphasize the economic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10626,1964,10628,10627,10629,10625,82,84,83,6775,1066],"class_list":["post-13411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-business-leaders","tag-community-support","tag-cultural-benefits","tag-economic-benefits","tag-long-term-impact","tag-propositions-ab","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-rodeo","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}