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Vikings lose one, win one at Capitol

The Vikings lost one and won one today at the Capitol.

In a 10-9 vote, a House State and Local Government committee, chaired by Rep. Gene Pelowski of Winona, put a major roadblock in front of the football team's drive for a new $800 million stadium. 

With most funding sources stripped from the Vikings bill during a late night committee hearing Tuesday, the main proposed source of funding remaining is a Minneapolis Convention Center tax. City Council member Elizabeth Glidden said the city opposes such a tax being eventually diverted to a Vikings stadium.

Later Wednesday morning, the Vikings got a 9-3 approval from the Senate Committee on State and Local Government Operations and Oversight. But that was a small consolation prize to the day's other events for the army of team lobbyists. With the State Supreme Court decision on unallotment tossing the entire session into disarray, and the defeat in the House, the Vikings bill — already short of funding mechanisms and site specificity — seems to be in deep trouble.