Swift-boaters are bribing and/or screwing Seattle, looking for Corporate Welfare (re: Sonics)

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A good article on the new Repuke owners of the NBA Seattle Supersonics. The minority partner funded the Swiftboaters.



http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/071102&sportCat=nba&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1


"From the beginning," Bennett says in the release (we assume with a straight face), "it has been my absolute hope and expectation that we would be able to secure the necessary governmental commitments to build a successor venue to KeyArena."

This would sound a lot more convincing had his partner and minority owner, Aubrey McLendon, not already revealed to an Oklahoma paper earlier this year that: "We didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle; we hoped to come here." (McLendon, by the way, was a big donor to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which gives you some idea of this group's tactics.)