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Beth Van Duyne: “We are actually getting more money now on game days than we…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

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'They Made The Cities Compete': Beth Van Duyne Demands Greater Accountability For Sports Teams

Published | Video Starts at 02:06

And now when you sit here and you think about, I saw all the economic impact studies and they were very, let's just say, generous at best. They included everything that was spent in that city from restaurants, from gas, from hotel. We are actually getting more money now on game days than we were in the stadium was in the city of Irving. And what we did is instead of foregoing our public transit and other things, we started investing more in our, in our, in our infrastructure, in our business practices. (02:06–02:12)

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Asserts that Irving receives more revenue on game days now than when the stadium was in the city.

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