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Boycott the Chicago Cubs
A billionaire investor whose family owns the Chicago Cubs is pressing ahead with a multimillion-dollar pro-Republican political campaign, bucking a political furor that emerged when the effort first become public.
Joe Ricketts, the founder of what became online brokerage TD Ameritrade Inc., plans to spend $10 million airing ads supporting GOP nominee Mitt Romney and another $2 million to help Republicans running for Congress. The ads will begin airing this week.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443720204578000490604078074.html
Joe Ricketts, the founder of what became online brokerage TD Ameritrade Inc., plans to spend $10 million airing ads supporting GOP nominee Mitt Romney and another $2 million to help Republicans running for Congress. The ads will begin airing this week.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443720204578000490604078074.html
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The Cubs are, in fact, the second-worst team in baseball. (Holy moly, the Disastros are bad!!!)
Obama's White Sox, meanwhile, are leading their division. 
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