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?
McCain and his fellow travelers will never have my support.
Notice that McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts because he said we couldnt cut the upper incomes while running a deficit, yet now he is ga-ga over a third War in Libya.
Yep. Mr. Consistency strikes again...
I would have bought into McCain’s opposition to Bush policy a lot more, if he didn’t oppose things that would have been good for the U. S. almost exclusively.
If it had a Leftist vent to it, McCain was Bush’s staunchest ally. And that’s saying something considering McCain’s absolute hatred for Bush.
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