Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is asking Gov. Mike DeWine to reject a plan that would allow the use of unclaimed funds for a new Browns stadium.
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He argues this threatens to betray the public’s trust, makes Ohio an outlier nationally, and risks inadvertently harming taxpayers.
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This comes days after the Ohio House and Senate officially passed the state’s two-year operating budget
The budget includes the allocation of $600 million from the state’s unclaimed funds program for a new Cleveland Browns football stadium.
Yost is asking DeWine to issue a line-item veto, to strike this individual part of the budget.
“Billionaires should finance their own stadiums—full stop," Yost wrote.
DeWine’s deadline to decide on the budget is June 30.
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