{"id":5488,"date":"2013-02-20T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2013-02-20T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:38:21","slug":"san-francisco-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5488","title":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO PLAYED?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supervisor Claims SF Was \u2018F-ing Played\u2019 By America\u2019s Cup\u00a0Organizers<\/h1>\n

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Emirates Team New Zealand skippered by Dean Barker competes in a fleet race of the America\u2019s Cup World Series on October 5, 2012 in San Francisco. (Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) \u2013 The America\u2019s Cup Organizing committee is millions short in coming up with private funds to cover the costs of covering the yachting race. Now a San Francisco supervisor has said city officials were \u201cf-ing played\u201d by race organizers and he\u2019s \u201cf-ing ashamed\u201d of the likelihood that the city will spend millions in public funds on the event.<\/p>\n

A February 2012 report by the city controller\u2019s office raised concerns that the America\u2019s Cup Organizing Committee wasn\u2019t raising fundsfast\"\"<\/a>\u00a0enough to meet funding goals. Last week, a spokeswoman for Mayor Ed Lee said officials have\u00a0raised about $14 million of the estimated $31 million to $34 million needed<\/a>to host the 55 days of racing beginning in July. Public funds will be used to make up the difference it the city falls short \u2013 a scenario which is growing increasingly likely.<\/p>\n

Only four racing teams, rather than the dozen or so initially envisioned, have paid entry fees and are planning on competing for the most prestigious trophy in competitive sailing. All four teams will be based at a single location rather than along the city\u2019s waterfront as originally envisioned.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos (SF Board of Supervisors)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

District 11 Supervisor John Avalos now says he wants a hearing into how the fundraising deficit has grown this large, according to an SF Weekly report, and says that language indicating that organizers would\u00a0simply\"\"<\/a>\u201cendeavor\u201d to raise their portion of the funding was largely overlooked by city officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was f-ing played. All the members of the Board of Supervisors were f-ing played,\u201d\u00a0Avalos said to the Weekly<\/a>. \u201cThere was a full-court press on us from the America\u2019s Cup Organizing Committee to play us\u2026I am totally f-ing ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avalos said he would explore the possibility of\u00a0calling\"\"<\/a>\u00a0off the race, but concedes that the city is committed contractually at this point.<\/p>\n

Mark Buell, who is chair of the fundraising committee, previously told the San Francisco Chronicle that hosting the America\u2019s Cup will still benefit San Francisco economically even if the city breaks its promise about refraining from using public money to pay for the event.<\/p>\n

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Supervisor Claims SF Was \u2018F-ing Played\u2019 By America\u2019s Cup\u00a0Organizers Emirates Team New Zealand skippered by Dean Barker competes in a fleet race of the America\u2019s Cup World Series on October 5, 2012 in San Francisco. (Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images) Filed Under Politics,\u00a0Sports,\u00a0Syndicated Local,\u00a0Syndicated Sports Related Tags America’s Cup,\u00a0America\u2019s Cup Organizing Committee,Funding,\u00a0Fundraising,\u00a0John Avalos,\u00a0Race,\u00a0San Francisco,\u00a0SF Weekly,Yacht Election Returns … Continue reading SAN FRANCISCO PLAYED?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-34-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}