Now the ‘host committee’ is announcing that it’s giving some of that money back to Arizona communities in the form of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) “Super Hero Awards.”
Recognizing educational excellence and innovation is certainly a laudable activity, but why do the taxpayers of Scottsdale need to hire the Super Bowl ‘host committee’ to do it…taking a sizeable haircut in the process? It’s all about the PR. Mayor Jim Lane, the Scottsdale City Council (including incumbent ‘Republicans’ Linda Milhaven and Dennis Robbins), and all the other crony capitalists get to hide their largess behind a feel-good noble cause.