Add the St. Louis MLS vote to a growing list of public referendums that would have put tax dollars toward stadium projects that got resoundingly defeated. On Tuesday, voters in the city rejected the measure despite the fact that it wouldn’t have raised any taxes.
This comes just months after a similar ballot measure in the city of San Diego was rejected by voters. In both of these cases, the potential effects of the ballot measures being defeated were obvious. In San Diego’s case, it meant the probable loss of the Chargers to Los Angeles. In St.