A lawyer representing an unidentified group of citizens on Thursday filed a petition for a possible referendum that would overturn the Metropolitan King County Council’s decision to send $135 million in public funds toward the Mariners ballpark.
The council on Sept. 17 had voted 5-4 to spend hotel-motel tax revenues on various fixes at Safeco Field over the next quarter century, against objections that the billion-dollar company could pay for its own work.
Seattle-based labor attorney Dmitri Iglitzin filed paperwork with the county for a potential referendum on behalf of a new group called the “Citizens Against Sports Stadium Subsidies.