Excuse me?
6/30/2005 - 23 Sivan, 5765I thought Republicans were supposed to be in favor of a free marketplace.
But apparently a few are dislodging threats if George Soros is allowed to purchase the Washington Nationals. Apparently they feel only a conservative should be allowed to purchase a baseball team. According to this article, one of the threats dislodged is a review of Baseball’s anti-trust exemption.
It’s not like I have the money to purchase a team, but I would like to think if I did, I wouldn’t be precluded just because I have made my political opinions clear.
Interestingly, it appears the same Reps who are trying to stop Soros, are supporting a Conservative, Fred Malek, who is a large GOP fundraiser. Malek has an interesting skeleton in his closet:
When he was White House personnel chief, he was summoned by Nixon to discuss a “Jewish cabal” in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nixon believed Jews in the bureau were tilting stats to make his policies look bad. He wanted to know how many Jews there were in the bureau, and he wanted Malek to count them. Malek eventually complied and produced a list. Some of them were later demoted or transferred.