Chicago Business Newspaper Goes After Citizen's United On the Ricketts Debackle
By Bill Liesse
Joe Ricketts' political action plans should give us all a greater appreciation of John McCain.
Mr. Ricketts unwittingly rocked the political world Thursday when the New York Times revealed his super PAC's plans to effectively sabotage the Democratic National Convention in September. At the center of the plan – yet to be finalized and ultimately subject to Mr. Ricketts' approval – are television ads revisiting President Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
It's virtually impossible to count the strategic holes in “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good.” Let's just say the Chicago Cubs' bullpen looks like a Wrigley Field brick wall by comparison.
Mr. Ricketts, of course, is the patriarch of the family that owns the Cubs. That the family includes daughter Laura, a key fund-raising figure in the Obama re-election campaign, is but a small irony here, a seeing-eye single amid a barrage of extra-base inconsistencies and hypocritical home runs.
Read more: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120517/NEWS02/120519820/a-rickett-y-ride-into-super-pac-world#ixzz1vEGjCf2Z
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Crains clearly is not a liberal newspaper.
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