They say it will be funded privately, but there will be an undetermined amount of taxpayer money involved. It does sound merely like smoke and mirrors to try to fool the people of Wilmington. Don't buy into this political trick. But, of course, if the people of Wilmington would quit electing the idiots that gave them the convention center against the people's will, then Wilmington wouldn't have to deal with this nonsense. If I was a betting woman, I would wager that Saffo gets re-elected the next time in spite of his broken promises and his insistence that this stadium get built on the backs of the taxpayers.