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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts) Tue Aug 6, 2013, 01:54 PM Aug 2013

Magglio Ordonez, a six-time Major League Baseball All-Star who earned $133 million with the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers, will run for mayor of a Venezuelan oil town on the socialist party ticket of the late President Hugo Chavez, Businessweek reports.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-08-06/former-white-sox-all-star-ordonez-runs-for-mayor-in-venezuela

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Heads up Tigers and White Sox fans... (Original Post) WilliamPitt Aug 2013 OP

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1. "Puerto La Cruz is currently run by Stalin Jose Fuentes of the ruling United Socialist Party."