Kansas recently passed a law to incentivize the Kansas City Chiefs to move to the state and took its efforts to the DNC, bothering democrats from Missouri.
Most of the Kansas delegates at the Democratic National Convention were seen wearing Kansas City Chiefs gear on the convention floor this week. The decision defies the fact that blue is the primary color of the DNC, and the fact that the Chiefs are located in Kansas City, Missouri.
However, Kansas Democratic chair Jeanna Repass made the decision that her state’s delegates would wear Chiefs gear amid the state’s attempt to court the Chiefs from their neighboring state.
Kansas Democrat Reed Krewson told KMBC that the party’s chair and the group decided to wear the jerseys.
«Kansas City Chiefs are the Kansas City metro area», Krewson said. «A win for them is a win for us. Our state legislature just passed a package to attract the Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas.»
The Kansas state legislature approved legislation in June that would expand a state incentive program with a clear aim at luring the Chiefs, and potentially the MLB’s Kansas City Royals, too. The bill would ensure that the Chiefs receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to build a new stadium based in Kansas.
Kansas state lawmakers were critical of Missouri as a host state for the Chiefs before the the law was passed.
