State should take over Coliseum talks, official says

A state of­fi­cial, Robert Stein, who chairs the Cali­for­nia Sci­ence Cen­ter board of dir­ect­ors, sharply cri­ti­cized the Los Angeles Me­mori­al Coli­seum Com­mis­sion for its hand­ling of ne­go­ti­ations to turn over op­er­a­tion of the Coli­seum to USC and said state rep­res­ent­at­ives should take over all talks on the sta­di­um’s fu­ture. The fol­low­ing is Stein’s pre­pared com­ments to the Sci­ence Cen­ter board, which he de­livered on June 6, 2012.