Final Three Cubs Bidders Includes...Oh No!

There are now three finalists in the bidding to buy the Chicago Cubs from the financially-desperate Tribune Company: Chicago real estate investor Hersch Klaff; Tom Ricketts' family, founders of Ameritrade; and a group led by New York investor Marc Utay. Smart and dedicated Cubs fans are pulling for Ricketts, who met his wife in the Wrigley Field bleachers.

I'm very afraid of Utay, whose group includes Leo Hindery. Remember Hindery?  A year ago we warned that John Edwards' presidential campaign included Hindery as an economic advisor. This is a guy whose word on everything can always be trusted to be a vast exaggeration, if not an outright lie. Even Hindery’s own family has debunked much of his autobiography.

One quote from a book on the debacle Hindery made of AT&T Broadband says plenty:

“It was never clear to AT&T executives if Hindery stretched the truth on purpose, or if he just dwelled in a very grey world where black wasn’t always black, and white wasn’t always white."

Bad enough that Hindery was almost close to a president.  But ownership of the Cubs?  Oy.

- Barry Orton

Comments

[Brian]

Hindery IS close to a president. He went on to support the far-worse-than-Edwards Barack Obama.

And look at all the Robert Rubinoids Obama has in place to run the economy.
You know, the same guys who created the problem?