Link: George W. Bush as an owner of the Texas Rangers Baseball franchise.
This all-to-familiar scenario was parlayed very skillfully by the future president and his partners. They made out not like Rangers, but like Pirates.
"...whether the public interest issue is taxes, size of government, property rights, or public subsidies of private sports ventures, Bush's personal ownership interest in the Texas Rangers baseball team has been wildly at odds with his publicly declared positions on those issues. And ongoing litigation over the Ballpark deal has revealed documents showing that beginning in 1990, the Rangers management--which included Bush as managing general partner--conspired to use the government's power of eminent domain to further its private business interests."
Robert Bryce writing for The Texas Observer
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