OUCH! The Ricketts slammed again: Is it time for a new Ricketts to run the Cubs?
Its fascinating but its really the Chicago sports media that is beating the crap out of the Ricketts' family for their planned attack on President Obama. This from Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune:
Is it time for a new Ricketts to run the Cubs?
Steve Rosenbloom
The RosenBlog
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The big issue, of course, came last week when it was revealed that father Joe Ricketts had agreed to fund a $10 million project called “The Plan To Defeat Barack Hussein Obama,’’ a political attack centering on the controversial preachings of the president’s former spiritual leader, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The story on the plan that Joe Ricketts reportedly was willing to fund was characterized as race-baiting and gay-baiting, among other things.
You can pretty much do anything in politics, especially now that the Super PAC rules have created secret agendas on steroids.
But lying to Cubs fans --- or treating them as brain-dead because you were treated that way --- is very public and can quickly turn into trouble for someone trying to run a business, such as the one that Joe Ricketts is trying to run through his kids, most notably Tom.
That, see, is where Tom again either lied or played Cubs fans for stupid. Tom went begging to Mayor Emanuel for tax breaks to renovate Wrigley Field. The mayor worked toward accomplishing those goals, and then reportedly went ballistic when the report came out that the wealthy family he was trying to help with tax breaks was spending some of its money trying to play dirty with the president for whom Emanuel was a chief of staff.
Tom issued a statement trying to disavow any connection to his father’s politics and said he would have “no further comment.’’
Which was a lie because he had page full of further comments in the Sun-Times over the weekend.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/chi-time-for-a-change-of-ricketts-20120521,0,5134763.column
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My brother bought me a Cubs cap and jacket for my fourth bday. He never did get that little brother he always wanted, but with his influence, I became one helluva tomboy.
My love for the Cubs has stuck with me for 43 years, now. I've cried, laughed, shrugged, sighed and celebrated through many, many seasons. I will do the same with this. Ricketts no more represents the Cubs than I do. He cashes and signs checks. He's not out there losing to the White Sox (really? 6-0???? WTF!), he's not out there sweating in the heat and humidity. He's an asshole, as are some players and lots of fans.
I'm not taking it out on my Cubbies. I'll take it out on the Supreme Court fucks that let this shit happen.
So, with that said GO CUBBIES 
(Maybe next year. 
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