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. >> cubs owner tom ricketts followed it up with a similar state. racially divisive issues in this year's presidential campaign or any setting like my father has. his sister laura who also owns the cubs had her own statement pointing to her love of america. >> the proposed plan though brings up another question with the cubs trying to secure a $150 million in city funding to renovate wrigley field, how will this sit with the city? >> this is chicago. this is blue town blue country, obama country not that everybody is but as a city so to have a lot of people saying we're going to give hundreds of millions of dollars -- to this family? >> even though they had nothing to do with it? >> talking to us during the 5:00 newscast. the president of that super pac ending spending action fund issued this statement. >> joe ricketts is a registered independent, an outspoken critic of the obama administration but he's neither the author nor founder of the plan to beat mr. obama that the "new york times" wrote about this morning. >> a developing story. two people s

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the implicit premise of this tom ricketts' probably is the. that was his tribute to black history month, whacking at his minister for his religion, and now he's declaring this, we don't attack each other's religions in may. why do you let him skip away from the classic he said? who knows what the number there was. why did he bring up reverend wright? . he brought the ad campaign because he saw this woman play this new guy is desperate to get the job. so why don't i do a 54-page proposal for the guy, get prior approval at a new york meeting, come back for further approval, it hits the "new york times," and wait a minute, oh, now the "new york times" find out about it, he says he's not going to do it. but he indicated before a couple times he would do it, and then we see a little note that says, with your preliminary approval at the new york meeting and then they get caught. thaet my thought. your thought? major. >> it's all part of the public record, everything you said. everything can evaluate romney what he said in february, why he said it th

the implicit premise of this tom ricketts proposal is that john mccain made a political blunder -- >>t was romney contributing to black history month. to black history month. that was his tribute to black history month? whacking at him for his minister and religion when he is allowed to do it, and now he is saying we don't attack each others religions in may. why would you let him skip away from the standard he set? trash his religion and race here? why did he bring it up? what's he up to? no wonder this guy brought the ad campaign to him. he brought the ad campaign because he saw this guy was willing to play this card. he saw that john mccain was a man of honor and said i'm not going to play this card. then this new guy is desperate to get the job, he'll do it, so i'll get a 54-page proposal for him. it hits the "new york times," and wait a minute, now the "new york times" finds out about it and he says he won't do it. he indicated before he would do it. he said personally i'm going against it, and then with your preliminary approval at the new york meeting. then they get caught red

he's the granddaddy or the papa of the ricketts family. his son tom is the chairman of the cubs. joe ricketts, according to "the new york times" is pouring in $10 million in an ugly ad campaign to hit the week of the democratic convention. he's creating his own super pac to do this. it is all focused on nothing to do with what president obama has done in the last four years. nothing to do with the economy. nothing to do with the auto industry. nothing to do with the stimulus. nothing to do with immigration or healthcare or -- you name the issue. nothing to do with anything. nothing to do with the war in iraq or afghanistan libya getting osama bin laden, no. he's putting up $10 million to attack president obama because of his ties with the reverend jeremiah wright. yeah, he's going back to 2008, bringing back jeremiah wright. saying that obama doesn't deserve to be in the white house because he once attended the church of jeremiah wright and joe ricketts is saying yeah, they're going to say we're racist. but the way we're going to answer that is we're going to hire some articulate,

joe ricketts' son, cubs' chairman, tom ricketts said i repudiate any return to racially divisive issues in this year's presidential campaign or any setting like my father has. meanwhile, daughter laura ricketts, an lbgt activist and obama bundler said she will continue to do all i can to help get president obama re-elected. the timing couldn't be worse for the ricketts family. they are currently in negotiations with former chief of staff rahm emanuel to work on wrigley field. that's right. they are hoping the taxpayers will pony up to the bar. emanuel is absolutely livid over joe ricketts' attack ads and refused to speak to the family. >> you can have disagreements without being disagreeable. if that's the nature, america is too great a future for the content they're talking about. it's insulting for the president and the country. >> let's turn to msnbc analyst richard wolffe and political analyst reporter, sam stein. the plan, is this the real deal or a fake, what do you think? >> a plan if not done by ricketts, done by someone else. does prove you don't have to be smart to be rich. he

so we had tom ricketts who's a chicago cubs chairman and he's the sun of joe ricketts saying i repudiate the issues in this year's presidential campaign. my focus is on one of the great american past times, baseball. let's just stay in business here, folks. we actually talked to an up viewer named david marshal who was formerly ceo of a realty company, had a lot of money with td spszameritrade. and marshal says, and i think this is an important point, the mo more these people do this, they're going alienate their customers. they want to play in the political system, but they don't want the fall out that they're going to get. >> and this is what happened with target, as well, in the race for golf nor in michigan. i believe. where the candidate that the target had decided to back had said some antigay comments. and this is the argument a lot of folks use to say, hey, for freedom of speech, and they use the freedom of speech argument, you should not have to disclose your donors. and these 501 c4 groups have become a way where corporations who might feel a particular way about a candidate or

tom: is outrageous, but this is a profoundly stupid idea. fred davis, the guy that came up with this proposal was the guy that wants kristine odonnel to say i'm not a witch. joe ricketts does want want part of this, but the reason -- leaving the race aside, they don't want this because it's not going to work. it's not as if barack obama, somebody nobody has heard of, he is the incumbent president. he tried this, everybody knows president obama now. he has high favorable ratings, he is personally popular, they will not be able to spend $10 million and redefine him. they're backing away because it's explosive, it will have a backlash, and the potential for success here is so low, and obama is already defined in the eyes of americans. >> before we back away too quickly, mr. chairman. the fact of the matter is the fact that it is even proposed. means that mr. romney may have a problem because there's segments of his party that wants to play this, and i just played a tape where he, himself, willard mitt romney himself referred to reverend wright in the context of the president not long ago on a radio show. before we give them all of this back away room, romney has brought