Subject: Re: The next big stadium fight?
From: "Brian Selander" <[email-masked]>
To: "Valerie Biden Owens" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:35:13 -0500

Val and Hunter,

HOBY still wants to tweak the colors and sound before they share it on
social media, but they're almost done with our tribute to Beau. I can't
thank you enough for giving me the chance to share the Beau I knew with the
audience at the gala and, hopefully, with HOBY Ambassadors around the world
for years to come.

The rough cut is in this drop box, which you can watch on your phone or
browser. Although I brought a paper up with me, I didn't stop to look at it
and don't really remember much after stepping up to the podium, so I'm
really glad it turned out ok
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2154doigwv85deo/Brian%20Selander.mov?dl=0

Right before boarding my flight back to Philadelphia the day after the
dinner, that New Radicals song that Beau loved and that Ashley quoted at
the funeral came on all over the terminal.

I totally lost it and started crying. So perfect: "Don't let go / I feel
the music in you / Fly high / What's real can't die / You only get what you
give / Just don't be afraid to live."

Thank you again for all you've done and all you do.

With love,
Brian

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Brian Selander <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Thank you so much!
>
> It meant the world to me to try and truly capture Beau's spirit and legacy
> for everyone involved in HOBY both now and to all the students that go
> through it in the future.
>
> Javier said that they'll get the video done quickly so the family can see
> it.
>
> I realized when I sat down that a lot of what I said wasn't on the page I
> brought up with me, so I will try and recreate it in print this weekend if
> they don't have it for me to transcribe soon.
>
> Let me know if you're ever off the road and in town. While my office is in
> New York, I live just off Ridge Road in Chadds Ford.
>
> Tell Cuffe it was great to meet him!
>
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Valerie Biden Owens <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Hi Brian / my son and nephew said your remarks last night about Beau were
> spectacular - you nailed him , with grace and joy.  Thank you. If you feel
> like it ,I would love to see them , but only if you are comfortable with
> that.  You are a good man Brian and are appreciated by each one of us in
> this family. I send my love.  Valerie
>
> On Jan 28, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Brian Selander <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Fantastic. I wonder if some of the St Louis businesspeople would be
> involved in funding the "No" side to try and keep the team in Missouri.
>
> We're doing great. Since our official launch on 1/1/14, we've scaled to
> 13M subscribers, over 50M social media followers and a library of sports
> content that's been viewed 2.3B times over its lifetime. Just closed a $28M
> round of funding from two of the world's larger cable companies -
> http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27311773/peyton-manning-ponies-up-whistle-sports-video-network
>
>
> Let me know if you ever need to mobilize 14-24 year olds!
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Ben Nuckels <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Brian!  We’ve done NFL & MLB stadiums before (YES side) and won.
>> I’ll see if I can’t find a connection to Inglewood…
>>
>> How’s The Whistle going?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Brian Selander <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Val and Ben,
>>
>> Congratulations on the big win in Miami! Great ad, great messaging and
>> great result for you.
>>
>> Because of my break from politics to focus on sports
>> <http://technical.ly/delaware/2015/01/19/brian-selander-markell-staffer-whistle-sports/>,
>> this article happened across my desk this morning. I don't have a
>> connection to the ballot initiative, but wanted to make sure you saw it
>> because I would imagine both sides of the issue would want to know about
>> your success and have you on their side!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Brian
>>
>> http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-649431-stadium-inglewood.html
>>
>> Inglewood officials: Stadium initiative will be on June 16 ballot
>>
>> Jan. 27, 2015
>>
>> Updated 10:32 p.m.
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>>
>> INGLEWOOD – Inglewood city officials said Tuesday that they expect an
>> initiative asking voters to approve plans for a $2 billion, 80,000-seat
>> NFL-ready stadium at Hollywood Park to be on the ballot in time for a June
>> 16 election.
>>
>> Passage of the initiative would eliminate another hurdle for St. Louis
>> Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s potential plans to relocate the team in Inglewood
>> and return the NFL to the nation’s second-largest market after a more than
>> 20-year absence.
>>
>> Missouri officials, meanwhile, remain determined to hold onto the Rams.
>> Doug Nelson, a commissioner in the state’s Office of Administration, told
>> legislators during a state House budget hearing Tuesday that Gov. Jay Nixon
>> could issue bonds for a new Rams stadium under Missouri law.
>>
>> Talk of the NFL returning to Southern California, Inglewood city
>> councilman Alex Padilla said has “put us on the map all over the world.”
>>
>> The Inglewood City Council unanimously approved contracts with two firms
>> to study the environmental and economic impact of the City of Champions
>> Revitalization Project which the stadium is a part of.
>>
>> The vote came during an often-heated council meeting Tuesday night that
>> drew a standing-room-only crowd and saw both supporters and critics of the
>> stadium proposal slammed their opponents with pointed and personal attacks.
>>
>> The Hollywood Park Land Development group of which Kroenke is a partner
>> announced earlier this month that it plans to build a stadium on a 60-acre
>> parcel owned by Kroenke between the location of the Hollywood Park race
>> track and The Forum. The stadium would be ready for the 2018 NFL season,
>> HPLD officials said.
>>
>> “I would say to those who try to convince the (voters) to let your
>> destiny slip by, understand this is a once-in-a-lifetime (opportunity) in
>> one place and that place is in Inglewood right now,” Mayor James T. Butts,
>> Jr. said.
>>
>> But a number of Inglewood residents complained to the city council that
>> the stadium would have detrimental environmental, parking, and noise
>> impacts on the city.
>>
>> “Let’s not forget quality of life is not something you can put a price
>> tag on,” said Diane Sambrano, a longtime Inglewood resident.
>>
>> Stadium opponents also criticized what they said was a lack of
>> transparency by Butts and the council.
>>
>> “We didn’t matter, it’s a done deal,” Sambrano said in an interview
>> later. “But how can it be a done deal if the city never talked about it to
>> the rest of the community?”
>>
>> A group contracted by the HPLD submitted more than 22,000 petition
>> signatures to city officials this week, more than enough to reach the 15
>> percent of registered voters threshold to get the initiative on the ballot.
>> The initiative would ask voters to fold the stadium project into an already
>> approved 238-acre retail, office and housing development at Hollywood Park.
>> Los Angeles County officials now have 30 days to verify the signatures.
>> Because of the verification process the initiative would not be ready to be
>> on the ballot for an already-scheduled April 7 election, said Inglewood
>> city clerk Yvonne Horton.
>>
>> The city agreed Tuesday to pay CAJA Environmental Services LLC $88,000 to
>> conduct a report on the initiative. CAJA also consulted with the city on an
>> environmental review of plans for the initial 238-acre retail project.
>> Those plans were approved by the city in 2009.
>>
>> The city council will also pay Keyser Marston Associates $33,000 to
>> review fiscal and economic reports prepared for the stadium initiative.
>> Keyser Marston has previously been a consultant on Staples Center, San
>> Diego’s Ballpark District and Levi Stadium, the 49ers’ new venue in Santa
>> Clara. The firm was also a financial advisor to the City of Walnut Creek on
>> development project that also involved Wilson Meany, a firm that hired by
>> the HPLD for the City of Champions development. In the Walnut Creek
>> development, Keyser Marston structured a business agreement between the
>> city and the developer and advised the city on negotiations with the
>> developer.
>>
>> A task force appointed by Nixon revealed plans for a nearly $1 billion,
>> 64,000-seat downtown St. Louis stadium earlier this month.
>>
>> The St. Louis plan calls for between $460- and $535 million of the new
>> stadium’s cost to come from extending current bonds on the Edward Jones
>> Dome and tax credits. Between $400- and $450 million would be paid by the
>> NFL and the Rams with the remaining $130 million coming from seat licenses.
>>
>> Nixon would face strong opposition in the Missouri legislature should he
>> issue bonds for the stadium, legislators from both parties said Tuesday.
>>
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