Gov Gets Bucked by Rodeo

cbs4denver.com - Rodeo Cowboy Assoc. Staying In Springs For Now:

Rodeo Cowboy Assoc. Staying In Springs For Now
(AP) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

Spurning a $17 million offer by New Mexico's Legislature to move to Albuquerque, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association on Tuesday announced it was reversing its decision to accept the offer and instead will remain put.

New Mexico's offer stipulated that both the association and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy, separate entities controlled by their own boards, make the move together.

Hall of Fame board members on Monday balked at making the move and instead voted to reconsider New Mexico's offer, along with a competing incentive package from Colorado Springs and the cost of the move, said Terry Sullivan, a Hall of Fame board member and president of the Colorado Springs convention and visitors bureau. "In light of actions taken by the Board of Trustees of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, the PRCA Board of Directors has voted to suspend consideration of relocation of its headquarters," PRCA Board Chairman Tom Feller said in a statement.

"This action does not, however, preclude future considerations of any action the Board of Directors believes to be in the best interest of the PRCA.

"A spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said the PRCA board's action prompted the state to withdraw its incentives package to the organization."The state's position is, the deal is off the table," said Richardson spokesman Jon Goldstein.

Weird how this wasn't in the evening news tonight.