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Posted: 7:48 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012

Group pushing for ballpark rallies supporters

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By Veronica Macias

The group making an effort to bring Triple-A Baseball to El Paso is rallying up supporters of the stadium at Cleveland Square Park on Monday in a last-minute demonstration to show city leaders and the mayor how many El Pasoans want it.

"We hope this will convey a message to council and the mayor to use their leadership and take this opportunity and make something awesome happen for El Paso," said Elizabeth Margo who helped distribute flyers for Mountainstar Sports Group.

The event comes at the heels of city representative Emma Acosta telling KFOX14 News that she wanted to wait another six weeks and have the issue taken up by the voters. Acosta did not agree with terms on the original agreement, like the non-compete clause, which pushed out the Tigua Diablos . She also didn't agree with the 10 cents surcharge on ticket sales.

On Saturday the Mountainstar Sports Group revised the term sheet agreement. The group dropped the non-complete clause and raised the surcharge on tickets from 10 to 50 cents, after the first year.

However Margo said this isn't about just baseball. It is about new possibilities for the city of El Paso she urged.

"This is so far beyond baseball. This is just one thing that's going to be a spark to help bring new things to El Paso, new life, new things to do, quality things to do with our families. So it's just one thing that can happen that's going to take El Paso one more step forward to becoming the great city that it is."

Luis Talavera, who created a facebook petition to gather signatures in support of the stadium, was in solidarity with Mountainstar organizers on Sunday handing out flyers for the event at Cleveland Square.

He said the 'Bring it El Paso' petition has gathered 100 signatures or clicks per day.

"What we need to do is just look at what's ahead and what is the cost of not doing anything," said Talavera about the opposition's protest to tear down city hall.

City leaders will meet on Tuesday morning to vote on the ballpark deal.

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