"Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani told a roomful of regional leaders Wednesday that a new football stadium is more likely to get built with political and financial support from around the county, and that a public vote on the venue would almost certainly slip to 2013 — when a fresh crop of politicians would be joining the debate.

"We think we would do better on a countywide vote than we would in just a citywide vote," Fabiani said. "So our lawyers have already advised us, and will continue to, about the kinds of things that would justify a countywide vote.""