Posted on 12/23/2010 12:14:39 PM PST by snuffy smiff
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Gov. David Paterson contradicted his staff, the Yankees and common sense when he falsely claimed he always intended to pay for five tickets to the first game of the 2009 World Series at Yankee Stadium, a state commission said in assessing him a $62,125 fine.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/12/22/new.york.governor.fined.ap/index.html#ixzz18xyWlhky
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How blind is he really?
Hope he enjoyed the game for what it cost him.
Of course, he mostly listened to what was going on.
What does that come to? About a days pay for a player in this overpaid hype called a sport?
Notice it takes six paragraphs to list his political party. A Republican would have had his party listed in both the title and the lead paragraph.
As long as there are enough people willing to pay what you and I believe to be outrageous ticket prices ,nothing will change in sports;and that a majority of those actually voting on bond issues approve taxing everyone to pay for sports stadiums is something that would surely upset the nation’s founders.Myself,I doubt all these tax abatements and special deals for sports or any private company are actually cConstitutional.
The first word of the lead paragraph and of the title.
He could just say that he never saw the tickets.
How much did Patterson cost the US taxpayer with these tickets? Zero! How much did Charlie Rangel and Geithner cost the taxpayer with their delinquent taxes? Plenty enough!
It is bigger then tickets, that is minor revenue. It is the tv deals where mfg’s add 35% to the price of a product for advertising spent during these games and that is where much of the millions come from. You cannot get away from it, like taxes. You pay there salaries every day.
seventh word, 6th paragraph. Just says NY GOV in title.
Granted, the people of NY know his party.
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