[undeniable logic]

I thought that is what I heard on a biography special on him about two years ago. I may be confused with his net worth. If so, I apologize. The actual dollar figure is unimportant. Someone else here said between 10 & 20 million. What's the difference. He made money through an increased sales tax in the city. I just think this is wrong.

[weegee]

Houston raised the taxes on car rental fees and hotel occupancies to pay for the new stadiums. We now are at the top taxing for these services in the country.

And lest you think that this only hits visitors, this affected everyone in Houston who had to rent a car (and every car was rented) after Allison flooded Houston in 2001.

Ken Lay was a mover and shaker on getting the downtown stadium built and it was the downtown Democrat cronies who lined their pockets with the downtown redevelopment.

Every city is rebuilding their parks at the insistance of Major League Baseball.

There is a whole lot of corruption going on in the civic subsidizing of private enterprise. There is more to gripe about than George W. Bush's involvement in the Texas Rangers. As others have said, there is little that he did that is different than other owners would have done, nothing illegal about it, and some cities have soaked the public for far more.