This might be a story (MLS and the City of Charlotte)

[Happy Panther]

13 minutes ago, Wes21 said:

[Shufdog]

5 hours ago, Toker Smurf said:

If they can be bought with a $250 contribution, that really is a problem.

Did you know $500 will get your head blown off?
It will....ha, ha, ha

[French Navy]

I know firsthand that the exact same thing happens in Atlanta with real estate developers. Nobody going crazy about it though. I always assumed it happened everywhere. 

[Pejorative Miscreant]

Local fish wrapper wasting ink does not make this a story.  Why we try to make everything a scandal is puzzling.   

[trueblade]

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

[Mr. Scot]

Saw this coming...  

Gantt really doesn't seem to like David Tepper very much.

[WarPanthers89]

8 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Saw this coming...  

Gantt really doesn't seem to like David Tepper very much.

No one seems to like Gantt very much, which is why he talks more Sh** than some of the trolls on the Huddle.

[Happy Panther]

Entirely possible the Panthers and staff donate to a ton of political figures. If anyone has better googling skills than me it would be good to investigate historical political donations. 

The only shady thing here is the timing which is pretty innocuous.

[blackcat]

Meh, Gantt has a point, CLT politicians don't really need their gears greased, they love paying for this stuff!  

[NAS]

No story here.  This is why these individual contribution limits exist.  I seriously doubt they were influenced by them. 

[RenoCarolina]

I donated $500 to a local campaign

got a ticket.

lawyer cost $1000 but because politician referred me she only charged $500

lesson?

politicians always win.

 

[Mr. Scot]

34 minutes ago, blackcat said:

Meh, Gantt has a point, CLT politicians don't really need their gears greased, they love paying for this stuff!  

He's basically calling them whores that don't charge their clients.

[4Corners]

As long as he doesn’t donate to Emperor Orangeface we good 

[4Corners]

58 minutes ago, RenoCarolina said:

I donated $500 to a local campaign

got a ticket.

lawyer cost $1000 but because politician referred me she only charged $500

lesson?

politicians always win.

 

I think that the guys in Congress that are always arguing with each other ...90% of them are friends regardless of where they sit. It’s lucrative to be a politician.