and that is kind of how the whole story sartre -- whole story starts.urse like any other team they want to get as much as possible. get the dugout, the tunnel that goes from here to there. to stop to tell them and if you don't they are going to get everything. >> you hope there will be a following, that it will lead to the economic development. did that happen? >> i think for the first couple of years it did. i was actually there for opening day back in april. there weren't a lot of people there. it was not a packed house. i would be exaggerating if i didn't say there were a hundred people left. >> the liberty media john malone connection, who was so deliberate in how he re-created this, he has done that with baseball as well. >> i look at many bond deals all the time. it was like you had to read read sentence for or five times. let me tell you this story. it is so malone. you have these small towns or cities stuck with a huge price tag. be townsis going to around the country. >> it is a disappointing story, because no matter how many times you read an

marginalized people and getting away with it, big time like the people i talk about in that case and sartre martin and louisiana, we did not hold the local council election for 12 years because if they did hold one, black person would have gotten the seat and black's would've had a majority of the council and they would have controlled the patronage. they were not going to put up with this, they did not have any election until they were forced to. and then even when they were forced to what they did was use a lot of shenanigans and what i talk about in the book to pretend there are voters who live there and paid money and they were not going to give it the patronage. if the federal government had not been invoked, he got the feds to come in because the locals were not going to do anything. the local da was part of it. and enforce that woman who was sitting in the seat who her whole family held that seat from the time anybody could remember, nothing happened. then even after they did all of that, the mayor who gets to appoint someone to the office says you black people want them in the offic