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On Monday, the Minnesota House of Representatives finally will vote on the Vikings stadium bill. On Saturday, Pro Bowl defensive end Jared Allen will rally support for the stadium, along with Governor Mark Dayton and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Ryback, at the Mall of America.

The event starts at 12:30 p.m. CT, in the Sears Courtyard.

It may not be enough. On Friday, the situation continued to disintegrate, with Dayton vetoing a tax bill passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature, and triggering comments from Republican lawmakers suggesting that payback is coming when it’s time to vote on Dayton’s stadium proposal.

“I made it very clear earlier this week to legislative leaders that I would not sign a bad tax bill for the stadium. I would not make that kind of trade,” Dayton said Friday, via the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “I would hope that legislators will separate the issues.”

Dayton, a Democrat, also said that House Speaker Mark Zellers, a Republican, previously told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that Zellers had 34 or 35 votes in favor of the stadium, which would be enough to pass it. Zellers now says that he never said that.

It all sounds like typical partisan politics. And once way to cut through the crap is to go straight to the politicians. Minnesotans, make your views known, whether you oppose or support the bill.

If a stadium doesn’t get built because the people don’t want to build it, that’s fine. If it doesn’t get built because elected officials can’t get past their petty differences and do what the people want, that’s a problem.