CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne is warning that a move by state lawmakers to lock the Cleveland Browns into a share of the county’s sin tax revenue threatens not just local control, but the future upkeep of the downtown baseball park and basketball arena.

In an unusually sharp rebuke of proposed language by Ohio Senate leaders, Ronayne accused the Browns of “end-running” the county and lobbying the state for a share of the sin tax, as the team eyes a $2.4 billion stadium in Brook Park.

The sin tax money currently is divided three ways between downtown Cleveland’s baseball, basketball and football venues. That even split is the result of a years-old decision by the county council , though voters in extending the tax in 1995 and 2014, were told the tax money wou

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