“No matter how long we had to . . . think about this as a possibility, it’s still a shock to the system,” Missouri House Speaker Jonathan Patterson told the Kansas City Star. It shouldn’t have been. It was, as it usually is, about money. Jackson County, Missouri, voters overwhelmingly rejected in April 2024 the potential extension of an existing sales tax to fund a renovation at Arrowhead Stadium, along with a new park for the Kansas City Royals.