Hail No to a New Stadium at RFK - Add Your Name Below

If you believe the 190 acres of RFK's campus could be more than the next NFL stadium for billionaire Dan Snyder, say #HailNo and sign this petition below:

"As a DC resident, I am against a deal that gives away a single square foot of land or a single District tax dollar to build a new stadium for billionaire NFL owner Dan Snyder.

  • I believe the 190 acres alongside the Anacostia River could be so much more than oceans of asphalt for surface parking and a 60,000 seat stadium.

  • On average, most NFL stadiums only hold 10 to 20 events annually outside of eight NFL home games, meaning the stadium sits empty more than 300 days a year. An enormous space that sits empty doesn’t spur economic growth and doesn’t help the surrounding community, as study after study has demonstrated.

  • Make no mistake - people drive to NFL games and they're going to park somewhere, regardless of how much is available. At San Francisco's new stadium, they had to rent out all of the parking lots at a nearby amusement park. Where do you think people will park around RFK if there isn't enough parking for fans?

  • Nationwide, since 1997 we've seen the NFL pit communities against each other while collecting more than $6.7 billion dollars from taxpayers to build stadiums for privately-owned teams. Overall, local taxpayers end up footing around half the bill for a new NFL stadium.  

  • The costs of these projects are always higher than estimated. The five most recent newly-constructed NFL stadiums have surpassed more than $1 billion dollars each!

  • As a DC resident, I don't want to see DC hoodwinked into paying for a billionaire's stadium. The District needs our tax dollars to create new housing at all levels, support local DC entrepreneurs who run small and local business, take urgent steps forward to shift to a 100% clean energy environment, build larger and modern schools for our growing city, fund our Metro system, and in general spend money to make life better and easier for DC residents.

  • Sitting on the banks of the historic Anacostia River, a new stadium and all of the traffic and trash that would come along, would set the Anacostia River's improvement back. RFK has never had to meet standards set by the National Environmental Policy Act, and I am concerned any deal worked out under the outgoing Congress would try to extend the exemption to holding the site accountable to environmental standards.

Dedicating millions of dollars to bring an NFL stadium to the District is a bad deal and a poor use of an incredible opportunity. 

Thank you."

Who's signing

Barbara Kraft
Mike Rosenberg
John Miller
Eric Kollig
Ben Barge
Marina Galkina
Joe Gaines
sara Cardello
John Fine
David Kanner
Sean Scully
Sally Stoecker
Anthony Spadafora
Julie Evans
Corey Ramsden
Mary Suffoletta
Tim Rogers
Thomas Grahame
Scott Hunter
Carol Krafka
Jeremy Schappert
Joel Green
Julian Weaver
Robert Vignerot
Dennis Bass
Zack Rubin-McCarry
Nathan Danskey
Mark Reeve
Kasey Dorris
3,794 SIGNATURES
4,000 signatures

Will you sign?

  • Barbara Kraft
    signed 2019-02-13 11:14:03 -0500
  • Mike Rosenberg
    signed 2019-02-13 10:58:18 -0500
  • John Miller
    signed 2019-02-13 10:11:54 -0500
  • Eric Kollig
    signed 2019-02-13 10:03:26 -0500
  • Melissa Pewett
    @MelissaPewett tweeted link to this page. 2019-02-13 09:43:25 -0500
    Sign the petition: Hail No to a New Stadium at RFK - Add Your Name Below https://www.hailnorfk.com/?recruiter_id=1221351
  • Ben Barge
    signed 2019-02-05 15:37:48 -0500
    Ben Barge
  • Marina Galkina
    signed 2019-01-29 20:16:03 -0500
  • Joe Gaines
    signed 2019-01-29 13:04:21 -0500
    Hail No to the racist stadium.
  • sara Cardello
    signed 2019-01-29 11:49:48 -0500
    sara Cardello
  • John Fine
    signed 2019-01-28 17:46:09 -0500
  • David Kanner
    signed 2019-01-28 14:02:07 -0500
    Build housing, not waste-of-space parking lots.
  • Sean Scully
    signed 2019-01-28 12:30:17 -0500
    Not a DC resident, but I am close enough to have an opinion. The waterfront should not be burdened with a building and parking lot that will only be used 30 times per year. Football stadiums belong in the suburbs, not in the city.
  • Sally Stoecker
    signed 2019-01-26 14:49:36 -0500
    Sally Stoecker
  • Anthony Spadafora
    signed 2019-01-26 09:15:58 -0500
    Why should we pay taxes to turn millionaires into billionaires?
  • Julie Evans
    signed 2019-01-25 09:58:54 -0500
  • Corey Ramsden
    signed 2019-01-24 23:45:06 -0500
    No new stadium! Let the community guide what goes there next.
  • Mary Suffoletta
    signed via 2019-01-24 19:46:30 -0500
    First before any deal… change the name—e.g., red skin potatoes!

    Second, why not share Baltimore’s stadium! We can make it happen.
  • Tim Rogers
    signed 2019-01-24 13:07:25 -0500
    Tim Rogers
  • Thomas Grahame
    signed 2019-01-24 12:36:53 -0500
  • Scott Hunter
    signed 2019-01-23 21:04:26 -0500
    Scott Hunter
  • Carol Krafka
    signed via 2019-01-23 15:03:16 -0500
  • Jeremy Schappert
    signed 2019-01-23 10:42:29 -0500
    Jeremy Schappert
  • Joel Green
    signed 2019-01-23 04:38:19 -0500
    There is no money for racist bigots in DC that isn’t federal space
  • Julian Weaver
    signed 2019-01-22 20:59:07 -0500
    Julian Weaver
  • Robert Vignerot
    signed 2019-01-22 20:27:27 -0500
  • Dennis Bass
    signed 2019-01-22 17:49:58 -0500
  • Zack Rubin-McCarry
    signed 2019-01-22 17:00:25 -0500
  • Nathan Danskey
    signed 2019-01-22 16:06:44 -0500
    Tax payers do not need to subsidize the profitable business dealings of billionaires.
  • Mark Reeve
    signed 2019-01-22 15:48:11 -0500
    Mark Richard Reeve
  • Kasey Dorris
    signed 2019-01-22 14:29:55 -0500
    My biggest reason for signing is that I’m goddamned sick of having this city promote a racial slur as a stupid football tea name because we’re too privileged to consider the actual harm it continues to cause our native and indigineois communities.