Posted on 10/26/2016 12:50:53 PM PDT by newgeezer
As a 43-year-old lifelong Red Sox fan, I understand heartbreak. I know exactly what it’s like to be a Cubs fan as they hurtle toward another potential devastating post-season loss. That’s why I should be excited and rooting right along with Cubs Nation as they set their sights on their first World Series title since 1908. But I just can’t get into it.
Why?
Because their owner, the Ricketts family, has done more to kill constitutional conservative campaigns this election cycle than just about any group in America.
Who are the Ricketts and how are they protecting Big Government RINOs from constitutional conservatives? I wrote about them in August when they were funding the race against conservative stalwart Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan. (A, 92%).
Joe Ricketts is the founder of TD Ameritrade and patriarch of the Ricketts family. His son Pete, a Republican, is the current governor of Nebraska, the Ricketts’ home state. Another son, Tom, led the family’s 2009 purchase of the Chicago Cubs from bankrupt media conglomerate Tribune Co. The Ricketts children reportedly “hold 95 percent of the franchise through a trust established by their parents, Joe and Marlene Ricketts.”
In 2010, Joe launched the Ending Spending Fund to oppose candidates who favor excessive spending via earmarks. That election cycle, the group spent more than $860,000 on an effort to unseat Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. (F, 2%).
How can any of that be bad? Well, rebranded as Ending Spending Action Fund and then again as ESAFund, the super PAC shifted from targeting liberal Democrats to kneecapping conservatives in primaries.
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BTTT
A Cubs win will piss off the Hillary fans but Indians fans in Ohio. She’s already stated she’s rooting for the Cubs.
Might cost her just enough votes.....
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