The Minnesota Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to block professional soccer owners from even getting close to their goal of tax breaks for a Minneapolis stadium.

The unexpected 61-4 vote bars the state from spending or borrowing any money or using any tax expenditures to “fund the construction of a new major league soccer stadium.”

The vote brings to a quick end the request from Minnesota United FC owners for state sales and Minneapolis property tax exemptions for their proposed $250 million outdoor stadium downtown.

Just last week, the soccer team’s owners, led by former UnitedHealth Group executive Bill McGuire, met with Gov. Mark Dayton, House Speaker Kurt Daudt and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk to request about $3 million in state tax breaks. No legislation has been proposed to fulfill that request, but the group did register four lobbyists this month.

The leaders gave them little hope that a future request would win much love. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges also said she opposed any city subsidy.

The governor and legislative leaders said the state and lawmakers suffered from “stadium fatigue,” having recently subsidized not only the still-rising Minnesota Vikings stadium but also Target Field for the Twins and aid for the city-owned Target Center arena.

On Monday, soccer fans — and lawmakers — found out just how exhausted senators were.

“I’m kind of tired of billionaire hucksters walking in the Capitol,” Sen. Branden Petersen, R-Anderson said.

Petersen proposed tucking the soccer-funding ban into a state government funding measure during a floor debate Monday. Even he was surprised by the warm welcome the proposal received.

Senate state departments committee chair Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids, said he largely agreed with the sentiment and Senate Leader Bakk, DFL-Cook, said he was interested to know the sense of the Senate on the issue.

The Senate’s sense was a big “no” to soccer subsidies. Only four senators — DFL Sens. Bobby Jo Champion, Lyle Koenen and Kathy Sheran and Republican Sen. Julie Rosen — voted against the soccer funding ban.

Eric Durkee, spokesman for Minnesota United FC, said the owners had no comment on the Senate vote.

The block on funding may find even more support in the Minnesota House. House State Government Finance Chair Sarah Anderson, R-Plymouth, said she supported the funding ban and said it reflects the sentiment she has heard from leaders.

The agreement between the House and Senate on state government budget plans may end there.

The Republican-controlled House budget plans include cuts to budgets for both the House and Senate and a state government employee freeze. Under the House plan only 35,927 full-time equivalent employees could work in state government, which is a few hundred fewer than the state currently has on the payroll.

The House plan would also slice the salary for Dayton’s appointee to the Metropolitan Council and his appointee leading the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, which is charged with building the new Minneapolis Vikings stadium.

The state government measure from the DFL-controlled Senate would adopt none of those controversial provisions. But it includes some controversy of its own.

The Senate measure, the first of multiple budget bills coming before lawmakers this week, would spend about $13 million over the next two years to pay for the new senate office building under construction behind the Capitol. During the 2014 campaign for the House the building was often used as a prime example of Democratic overspending.

Once the $76 million building is done, it will house majority and minority senators who are now spread out across two buildings.

“No one is talking about tearing down the building,” said Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie. Instead, Republicans moved to simply stop funding of the lease payments for the building.

But their efforts failed in the Senate on a 28-36 party-line vote. Republicans tried again. They proposed allocating the cash for the leash payments to veterans. That move failed on a narrower 31-33 vote. A subsequent attempt to take the cash and give it to arts programs also failed.

The Senate would give the Legislature and state government slight bumps over their current budgets for the next two years. It spends about $100 million more than the Minnesota House on state government and veterans programs.

In the coming weeks, the House and Senate will form joint committee to work out their differences and send a measure to Dayton for his signature.

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