The Jackson County Sports Authority, established by the Missouri legislature in 1965, was officially bipartisan. Authority commissioners hoped that would help generate voter support for the 1967 stadium general obligation bond proposition, as it had almost 40 years before when Jackson County Presiding Judge Harry Truman, campaigning for a $6.5 million road bond proposal, appointed both Democratic and Republican road engineers to supervise the project. In the early 1930s Truman (center) posed with road engineers Alex Sachs, Democrat, (left) and Nathan Veatch, Republican, (right); Photo courtesy of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
