SAN ANTONIO – Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ premium playoff tickets came from an attorney with close ties to the Spurs and last year’s pro-arena funding campaign.
However, the mayor, who has been skeptical about Project Marvel and the deal to help fund a new Spurs arena, says she can “absolutely” still be unbiased. And the attorney who gave her his own, third-row tickets for Game 6 of the Western Conference finals says he wasn’t trying to influence her anyway.
“I mean, one, those tickets wouldn’t influence anybody about anything. They’re rapaciously expensive, but they’re two seats, you know, down near the floor,” J. Tullos Wells told KSAT…