partisan politics and major league baseball?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: June 27, 2005 8:18:55 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: partisan politics and major league baseball?


There's been a lot of discussion on this list about how excessively
partisan the country has become.  Things may have reached a new low:
some Republican members of Congress are threatening hinting at problems
for major league baseball if it should allow George Soros -- a
prominent anti-Bush businessman -- to buy the Washington Nationals.

    "I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes," said
    Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), the Northern Virginia
    lawmaker who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings. "I
    don't think they want to get involved in a political fight."

The story was reported in Roll Call, which is subscription only; the
gist of the article is summarized in a blog at
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/06/index.html#006915
I've read the original article; the blog's excerpts accurately reflect
it.

        --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb




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