Tom Ricketts' Request for Wrigley Money Undermined by Dad

wndycty

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Tue Nov-16-10 09:21 AM
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Tom Ricketts' Request for Wrigley Money Undermined by Dad

Source: FOX 32 Chicago

Chicago - Note to self: If you're going to ask the State of Illinois for $300 million in taxpayer money to renovate Wrigley Field, make sure your wealthy dad doesn't post an online video attacking taxpayer bailouts.

Read more: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/joe-ricketts-wrigley-field-taxpayers-against-earmarks-tom-20101115

FOX Chicago and other Illinois media outlets picked up on this after I broke the story yesterday: http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2010/11/ricketts-family-is-against-wasteful.html

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marmar

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Tue Nov-16-10 09:24 AM
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1. I was flipping thru channels and saw that on WGN.....

..... What nerve !!!!

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wndycty

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Tue Nov-16-10 09:25 AM
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2. Awesome, I'm tracking to see who picks it up. WGN? Great!

:kick:

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mopinko

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Tue Nov-16-10 09:44 AM
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3. i think quinn has to tell them to go scratch themselves

we could invest that kind of money to make good jobs, not a bunch of grinding seasonal crappy jobs and a few millionaires. i'll be pissed if they give them this.

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Drale

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Tue Nov-16-10 09:49 AM
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4. From what I've heard

that money from the entertainment tax, is just sitting there anyway, why not use it to help upgrade a chicago and national historic place? I would rather my tax money be spent on this, then on paying for Daley's pet projects. But I am biased.

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No Elephants

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Tue Nov-16-10 11:58 AM
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5. torn between nostalgia and my revulsion for privatized profits while making all else the taxpayers'

Edited on Tue Nov-16-10 11:58 AM by No Elephants

problem.

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