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Elizabeth Reside asked simply: “Have you thought about asking taxpayers if we want to put forth this money?”

Lee initially ignored the question and asked for the next one, before opponents shouted for an answer. Lee boomed into the microphone, “No.”

A different questioner asked why the County Commission’s Nov. 26 vote to approve a contract with the Braves couldn’t be delayed. “What is the downside of postponing the vote and allowing for a more full discussion, and an independent study so we as taxpayers know if any of these numbers are supportable?”

It received a huge round of applause.

Lee said a month’s delay could threaten the deal.

“There’s a lot of work that has to be done in order to play baseball in 2017,” Lee said. He added that the county has done a lot of work to ensure “the Atlanta Braves weren’t using us to get a better deal out of the city of Atlanta, and we wanted to make sure the numbers they were providing us were legitimate.”

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