Yes. Just like Bud Grant was, and Norm Van Brocklin before him.
Not all of choices faced by local and state governments fit into an ideological straight jacket. You can argue the country, with all its states, cities and towns would have been better off over the last century without its tax payer subsidized pro sports stadium tradition, based on some narrow and ill applied ideological prism view that must ignore all the rich and storied history. But doing so simply reveals the obtuse nature of your thought process.
Yup. Self righteous and indignant.