Posted on 03/27/2011 6:53:10 PM PDT by inkling
In order to keep the NHL's Coyotes in their town, the City of Glendale, Ariz., is paying a millionaire Chicago businessman $100 million of taxpayer money to "buy" the team. The businessman, Matthew Hulsizer, has hired former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods to lobby for this taxpayer ripoff, and guess who shows up at his side? Woods' longtime friend Sen. John McCain.
The only group in town standing against the Senator and his sweetheart deal is the Goldwater Institute, a conservative watchdog that noticed the plan violates the Arizona Constitution. Needless to say, Sen. McCain has decided to attack those meddling conservatives, even though they are doing just what he pretends to do: fight pork.
This morning on local TV, McCain got tripped up and inadvertently endorsed pork-barrel spending on the Coyotes, a green jobs scheme and even a Cubs spring training facility.
Here's the video transcript, starting at about 4:55:
INTERVIEWER: A week ago you went on TV to try to keep the Phoenix Coyotes here in town. A week later, after Matthew Hulsizer made his offer, where do you believe things stand? Are they any closer to staying in town or are they closer to leaving?McCAIN: I'm afraid that the Goldwater Insittute has refused to sit down and negotiate with them. Former Attorney General Grant Woods -- eight years Attorney General -- has said that this meets the gift clause provision of the Constitution. By the way, in a perfect world we should never give anybody anything. But we just gave a whole bunch of money to a solar group to come to Mesa, we built the Cubs a stadium. I mean, and it would be...
INTERVIEWER: That's pork-barrel spending isn't it?
McCAIN: Yeah! But, well no, it's up to the, to the... It's not a federal issue, so...
INTERVIEWER: ...at the local level?
McCAIN: But it's, it's, it's the world we live in. and the incentives have to be provided in competition with other states and other areas. I don't particularly like it, but it is what it is.
Sorry Senator, but "it is what it is" isn't enough. If we can't cut spending for a bankrupt soprts team, what can we cut?
Funny how this issue didn’t come up BEFORE the recent election. Now he’s got 6 years for Arizonans to forget what a sack of Biden he is.
Yeah, the world where The United States is 14 trillion dollars in debt, you mo-ron.
Gee, John, if it’s such a great idea, why don’t you and Mrs. Budweiser buy the team yourselves?
Truly, this arrogant, self-entitled old fool was tortured too much. Resign, Johnnie.
.... I don’t particularly like it, but it is what it is”.
They are all sickening scum.
Well it’s nice to know McPain had a few minutes to do an interview taking a break from polishing Obama’s boots.
That same boot of the nitwit that kicked his butt and put our country into perpetual quicksand.
This is what happens when you put two geniuses in the same room and the MSM reports on it.
Where are all of those FReepers that, two-and-a-half years ago, were shrilly insisting that this man(?) was the very best that the Republican Party has to offer - and insisting that those of us who had misgivings were Commies, Du’ers, or worse???
Come out and sing your boy’s praises, now, Pubbiebots and Shills!!!!!
McCain ping!
You are kidding right. McCain has been known for years.
I guess I forgot all of the pro-McLame threads on this board. Would you care to post some of them? I just don’t remember them, and most of us only got excited about the McLame one when he picked Palin as VP.
Professional sports should not be funded by taxpayers at any level.
His old woman has plenty of loot, let her make the damn loan. Who was it that endorsed this POS.
Well for one thing, I seriously doubt anybody was insisting that he was the best that the party had to offer; I never saw anyone shilling for the guy but of course I didn’t join until 10/08.
With that said though, do you really believe that if McCain had won we’d be where we are? Do you think he would have packed the White House and the administration with avowed communists? Do you really believe he would have used our service men and women like toy soldiers? Do you really believe he would have run around the world apologizing for America? Do you believe our allies would be dumped and Israel put into danger? Do you believe that things would have escalated like that have, with America closer than ever to collapsing? No is the answer.
Come on, get real. There was no choice. McCain is a piece of crap but one that was tolerable because Palin was on the ticket.
McCain is a slut and the people of AZ re-elect him anyway.
McCain has been a crook since his first day in office, and it first came to light the in the Lincoln Savings and loan scandal.
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