When Gov. Whitman and her crew first implemented "leasing" of stadium names, I think it was actually Plan B. What they _really_ wanted to do was privatize those

When Gov. Whitman and her crew first implemented "leasing" of stadium names, I think it was actually Plan B. What they _really_ wanted to do was privatize those publicly funded stadiums themselves. But that wasn't something that would fly at the time because ordinary voters still hadn't fully embraced full on privatization of everything.