Wife of Royals owner John Sherman reacts to election, says ‘no more Jackson County for sure’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Royals Owner John Sherman’s wife Marny shared her thoughts on Tuesday night’s election results via several comments on Facebook, saying both teams are done negotiating with Jackson County and the community would be lucky if when all is said and done they are both playing in Kansas.
Marny Sherman shared a post Wednesday morning from John Lawrence Solomon, which recalled the developments in Wyandotte County that became Kansas Speedway, Children’s Mercy Park and the Legends Outlets. In the comments, she weighed in with words of her own.
“Unfortunately neither team will work with Jackson County again,” Marny wrote in a Facebook comment on a public post after Tuesday’s special election saw the Vote Yes on 1 campaign fail by 16 percent. “The lack of leadership has lost the city two treasured assets... We will be lucky if both teams wind up in Kansas.”
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Mayor Quinton Lucas said the people of Jackson County shared their concerns by voting no on Question 1.
“The people of Kansas City and Jackson County love the Chiefs and the Royals,” Lucas said on Twitter. “Today, they rejected plans and processes they found inadequate.”
Lucas also released a statement Tuesday night and shared a message on Twitter Thursday expressing optimism on Jackson County’s ability to keep both franchises.
“I hear rumors, including even from the Mayor of Dallas,” Lucas said Thursday. “Don’t believe the noise. We are committed to retention of our teams with vastly lower expenses -- think needed infrastructure build-out -- than even an intra-metro move. Both teams will be in KCMO in 2040 and long after.”
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On Tuesday, John Sherman released a statement of his own.
“We respect the voters of Jackson County and the results of the election today,” Sherman said. “We will take some time to reflect on and process the outcome and find a path forward that works for the Royals and our fans.”
A day later, in response to a commenter who suspected voters of Jackson County outside of Kansas City were unwilling to attend downtown baseball and will now have to deal with a drive across state lines, the Royals’ majority owner’s wife said she “hope(s) that’s the worst of it.”
“No more Jackson County for sure,” she said.
At 5:37 p.m. Thursday, Marny returned to the post with another comment.
“Some are having buyers’ remorse on their NO vote,” she wrote.
On Thursday, KCTV reached out to Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly to discuss the Chiefs and Royals, but her office said the governor did not have availability for the request. Kansas does have a fund dedicated to attracting a professional sports team and it’s raised from sports betting.
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