St. Louis defeated the soccer stadium

“We were going all out for this campaign effort,” Kavanaugh said of the $1 million political campaign to secure $60 million in public stadium financing.

Almost 60,000 city voters cast ballots Tuesday the highest turnout for an April city election in decades.

Jeff Rainford, the ownership group’s political consultant and former chief of staff to Mayor Francis Slay, said that shows the election attracted people disaffected by Democrats and the GOP, groups also likely to oppose stadium financing.

Proposition 2, a use tax on businesses to help fund a soccer stadium, passed in eight wards in downtown and south and western parts of the city, and lost by slim margins in another eight wards.

Citywide, 20 of 28 wards voted down the proposal, despite Proposition 2 not facing any organized opposition and a $1 million political campaign to get supporters to the polls.

Louis voters gave strong support to Proposition 1, a companion measure to raise the city’s sales tax by one-half cent on every dollar.

That was most prominent in the 15th Ward, south of Tower Grove Park, where 69 percent of voters supported Proposition 1 30 percent above their support for subsidizing a stadium.

Louis County voters than those in the city.

Stenger noted other major projects that the county and city have collaborated on, including America’s Center and the Dome in downtown St.

The county charter would have required a public vote on stadium funding, but Stenger wouldn’t speculate on how county voters would have responded.