"Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak has rolled out the most extensive plan to date for keeping the Minnesota Vikings in his city.
It looks a lot like the plan he and city council president Barb Johnson rolled out in May, with a key difference: Rybak tacked a Block E casino onto the idea. He says he wants a .35 percent sales tax and a one percent hotel tax for a contribution up to $300 million for a Vikings stadium, and another $150 million for the city-owned Target Center. But he'd also like to take a 5 percent cut of the Hennepin Avenue casino proposed by developer Bob Lux. (That percent would drop to 3 in 2020, after some of Minneapolis' other debt is retired.) Rybak talked like a reluctant convert to gambling expansion, but a convert he appears to be, if this account of a 2009 legislative fundraiser during his erstwhile gubernatorial campaign is accurate. " Get the Story: