St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 28, 2015
Legislators sue Nixon, call stadium cash 'illegal'
The proposed riverfront stadium is pictured as it it were configured for soccer in an image released on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Read the suit against Nixon and the Regional Convention and Sports Complex AuthorityST. LOUIS • Six state legislators have sued Gov. Jay Nixon and the public board that owns and operates the Edward Jones Dome to block funding of a new riverfront football stadium here.
The suit, led by Sen. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, alleges that taxpayer money is “in the process of being spent illegally,” on “an illegal construction of a new NFL stadium.”
