Family that owns Chicago Cubs gave $5 million to Scott Walker super PAC

[KeepItReal]

Source: Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentenel

The Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs, hasn't had much luck when it comes to winning baseball championships.

But billionaire investor Joe Ricketts and his wife, Marlene, think they've picked a winner when it comes to the 2016 presidential race: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

The Washington Post is reporting that federal election filings released today will show the Ricketts have given $5 million to the super PAC supporting Walker's presidential bid, Unintimidated.

Joe Ricketts, who founded TD Ameritrade, an online broker service for online stock trading and investing, decided to back Walker after private meetings over the past year at his New York apartment and his ranch in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole valley, the Washington Post reported.


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I will never again give half a sh*t about whether or not the Cubs win another game, much less championship.

I will also be moving my money out of TD Ameritrade. Chicago is closing public schools, and this dick is giving millions to a Super PAC.

[dembotoz]

1. bet he cheers for the bears too. a fucking closet cubs fan

blasphemy in wisconsin

[Scuba]

2. Chumb change compared to David, Charles and Sheldon's contributions.

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[KeepItReal]

11. You're right. Still says how sorry these candidates are that they need SuperPACs.

Instead of contributions from non-Billionaires.

[tk2kewl]

3. may the curse of the billygoat last another 100 years

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[Elmer S. E. Dump]

4. Lifelong Cubs (The Ultimate Underdog) fan. Just needed a good excuse to never care again.

I just found it!

[HereSince1628]

5. And the Ricketts knocked Cubs games off WGN cable

I know which one of those acts actually perturbed me more.

[Sanity Claws]

6. The good part of the story

The family has a history of supporting losers.

[Jokerman]

9. +1

[riversedge]

18. ha ha.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. This is the same tea bagger who, after so much tea bagging, came with his hand out ...

... for millions and millions of public funds to rehab his own ball park.

Mayor Rahm fucked with him a tiny bit but they still got the dough.

[lunasun]

31. Really this family yuk for them tax payer funds are OK if it is helping them

Glad to hear he is on a losing strike Cubs,charters etc. Walker is too much a loser to be the GOP leader

[QED]

35. And that's when I stopped buying Cubs stuff...

typical Libertarian hypocrite. He won't get a dime from me.

[Jokerman]

8. No more trips to Wrigley Field for me.

I learned many years ago not to get emotionally involved in any Cubs team but I still love Wrigley and enjoy going to an occasional game.

I vote with my dollars and these scumbags won't be getting another cent.

[lunasun]

32. Go Crosstown . See the Sox

Righties took over Wrigley and that sucks

[Jokerman]

33. I may just do that...

Had some good times in the old Comiskey back in the day, but I'm ashamed to say that I've never even been in the new park.

[logosoco]

10. And here I was wishing they could win some day.

Sometimes I root for the underdog.
I guess I will change my mind on this now (unless they get new owners some day, or these owners change their minds).

Speaking as some one from St. Louis who is in a family with rabid Cardinal fans (including those family members who live in Madison, WI). Not really sure if the owners of that team are ever blue (I seem to recall some connection to the Bush family).

[jomin41]

12. Thanks for the info

I no longer care about the Cubs. It's the Rockies and the Orioles now.

[surrealAmerican]

13. Are there any MLB teams owned by Democrats?

Sports ownership in general seems to attract a lot of wealthy right-wingers.

[mopinko]

14. dunno how jerry reinsdorf votes but

the guy is a true mensch. white sox all the way.

[dsc]

36. The Orioles are

and I think the Dodgers are too. In football the Rooneys are well known Democrats.

[raging moderate]

15. Go Nats! Go Orioles!

Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Ricketts, for making it easier for me to move to Maryland, in about a month! The Chicago Cubs I knew are dead. This incarnation is just a mask for right-wing neo-feudalists. Goodbye, Chicago!

[Zambero]

16. This should extend the Wrigley Field curse a few more decades

Great ballpark, but lousy management and bad karma means a bleak future for the Cubs.

[AllFieldsRequired]

26. I sure hope so. By giving that money to Mr. Walker they are screaming as loud as they

can that working people are of no importance to them whatsoever.

Hell, that working people are a hinderance.

[hibbing]

17. And his inherited millionaire son is my governor

Spending his own money to pay people to get the death penalty on the ballot even though the conservative legislature here overrode his veto of the bill stopping the imposition of the death penalty. Can't wait to see what other screwed up things he proposes. I can be pretty sure they involve tax cuts for millionaires like him and cuts to programs that benefit anyone that is not the 1%.

Peace

[aggiesal]

19. First, I love the Cubs (As you can tell from my avatar) ...

Second, since the day the Ricketts took over, I've been telling my family to stop
buying Cubs memorabilia because daddy Ricketts gave money to GW McIdiot.
The daughter is very liberal because she's part of the LGBT community, but the
sons are very RW, including the current Governor of Nebraska.

I was pi$$ed off when the Ricketts asked the city of Chicago for money to redo
Wrigley Field. I'm a baseball purist, and love Wrigley Field without any of the
electronic scoreboards and new gadgets around the stadium. Especially when
teachers are not getting paid what they should be, and city gets screwed on
what should be city services like parking meters.

Yet my brothers and sisters don't really care. As long as they produce a championship.

Ricketts are bastards!

I still love the Cubs.

[murielm99]

25. I still love the Cubs, too.

I will support my team, as I have for about fifty years.

I knew the Ricketts family were right-wing SOBs. But what has changed? Most baseball club owners are greedy takers.

[aggiesal]

30. But what has changed? ...

Asking for public money from the city to remodel Wrigley.

They should have paid for it themselves.
They are definitely a part of the GOP.

GOP = Greedy One Percent!!!

[heaven05]

20. may the Cubs

be what they have been in the World Series chase for 104+ years, the losers they are.

[AngryAmish]

21. Joe Ricketts 8s the father, some of the kids own the Cubs

They are different people. His cgildren's rrust actually are tge majority of the investors in the Cubs. I think Sam Zell still has a piece.

[aggiesal]

23. Daddy bought the team for the kids ...

and the current Gov. of Nebraska (a RW nut job) is part of the family.

[INdemo]

22. I was a Cub fan until the Ricketts bought the team

which was all set by the commissioner. All the bidding and such during the sale process was nothing but a big show.
They gave $600,000 to a PAC run by the Koch Bros. during the last election cycle.

The Ricketts don't care about a World Series, this team is just a business for profit for them. They get young players develop them into decent players then sell or trade them for a profit, Check the Cubs player/roster since these T-bagger owners took over.

[HuckleB]

24. Ugh.

[villager]

27. Go Giants!

[George II]

28. Scott Walker's campaign - yet another losing team funded by those clowns!

[pansypoo53219]

29. tis & the monopoly thing. baseball is DEAD to me. also strike kills world series? DEAD.

i care naught.

[eringer]

34. I root for the Nationals and any team playing against the Cubs

Walker and the rest of the GOP want to complete the destruction of the middle class and put old people on the street with no health care.

[Gormy Cuss]

37. Losers

since 1908