Purple with state’s gold?

Winona (Minn.) Daily News: How legislators spend state tax money says a lot about our values in the North Star State.

And it appears that taxpayers — at least in some parts of Minnesota (Ramsey County for the moment) — may be on the hook for a portion of the money needed to keep the Vikings from doing like the Clampetts and packing up their bags and moving to Beverly ... Hills, that is.

Gov. Mark Dayton has called a pre-Thanksgiving special Legislative session to figure out the fate of the Vikings stadium.

Quite frankly, needing to call a special session to deal with a professional sports franchise may surely be a sign of the apocalypse.

If you ask us, a team as ho-hum as the Vikings kind of deserves the Metrodome.

We’re certainly not rooting against the Vikings; we just think residents need to ask their legislators: Is professional football in Minnesota a want, or a need?