Comments on: Free tickets helped Cardinals build relationships with Arizona legislators http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Sat, 25 May 2013 00:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: damnyankee13 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1108430 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:53:40 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1108430 Isnt this bribery??

]]> By: dwoofer http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1108136 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:58:43 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1108136 AS I recall the bargain proceeded like this: Legislators get free tickets, and Cardinals must start Max Hall. Result: two losers.

]]> By: whoknowsnothing http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107690 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:00:26 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107690 Arizona legislators from them to the sheriff’s office; they don’t ever seem do anything wrong……..right!

]]> By: FinFan68 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107603 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:33:26 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107603 There is corruption throughout government and business. People complain that the legislators take gifts/bribes for political favors, yet those same people are fine with “their guy” wheeling/dealing to bring unnecessary stuff (funding for pet projects) to their districts for other political favors known as votes. It’s a damn shame that honest people are in the minority. Too many people are only “looking out for #1″ and everyone else be damned.

]]> By: ajtexans http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107579 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:35:29 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107579 When working on a government contract, if I accept a gratuity from a supplier (even something as seemingly innocuous as a lunch), I get fired.

A few football tickets slipped into your pocket for a vote? Peanuts.

Look at guys like Donald Gips who raises a bunch of money for a presidential campaign and he is rewarded with $14 million in taxpayer funded stimulus money.

It’s pervasive – but that doesn’t make it right.

]]> By: dd393 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107576 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:15:50 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107576 It’s not like the Cardinals could do anything right by doing something ethical.

]]> By: firemarshal1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107536 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:35:13 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107536 Once again proof the USA taxpayers are funding NFL stadiums for the Greedy NFL owners, like I have stated multiple times, we the people of the United States of America need to stop the rich from stealing from the poor and middle class. Our society is becoming like the ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE…The Gladiators (NFL) rule, more than are our children’s education, healthcare, and our elderly poor. Disagree all you want, but it’s true.

]]> By: krow101 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107503 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:34:35 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107503 “who was that crooked banker that stole millions from the S&L’s”

Neil Bush was in on the looting too.

]]> By: schmitty2 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107430 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:07:53 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107430 Giving free tickets to politicians shouldbe illegal since the tickets are to see the Cardinals. I liken that torture to giving a really hairy guy a coupon for a free wax job

]]> By: mikeinthevine http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107410 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:18:20 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107410 Best government money can buy. What’s reaslly amazing is, the politicians don’t see anything wrong with this.

]]> By: citizenstrange http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107405 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:02:49 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107405 At least the Cardinals didn’t do anything stupid with the tickets like give away free to Boys & Girls Clubs or something.

]]> By: bucks12965 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107396 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:36:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107396 What do you expect from a team that stubbornly holds on to a stolen championship (1925)?

]]> By: stairwayto7 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107393 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:29:48 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107393 But it would be nice if the Cardinals would follow the lead of the Phoenix Coyotes and Phoenix Suns-
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The Coyotes will be relocated to Quebec and the Suns have not sniffed a championship in almost 20 years, while the Cards were in the Super Bowl 2 years ago!

]]> By: winkandthegun http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107383 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:01:17 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107383 I suppose the joke would be that the tickets would actually have to be worth something to make it corruption…but in all seriousness, this is the sort of thing that has pervaded politics on both sides of the aisle and is costing the taxpayers dearly. Corruption and a successful democracy are incompatible.

]]> By: bubbabart http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107373 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:47:34 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107373 Charles Keating…that’s the name…and away goes trouble down the drain.

]]> By: bubbabart http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107370 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:42:07 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107370 While there is crooked politicians everywhere…the wild wild west Arizona tops them all…..concealed weapons abound there thanks to the NRA…..who was that crooked banker that stole millions from the S&L’s….crooks have fertile ground there!

]]> By: 1stngoal http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107369 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:41:32 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107369 Mr. Wilf, if your reading this, please take note…:-)

]]> By: melonnhead http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107368 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:41:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107368 Arizona is Dallas Cowboys country. The Cowboys travel to AZ on 12/4. Watch, they’ll have more fans in the stadium than the Cardinals will.

]]> By: chadmurdigan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107366 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:32:27 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107366 Grease the palms of a politician with free tickets, and his vote is yours for life.

]]> By: jayhawk6 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107362 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:27:37 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107362 This is the same state that gave the country both Barry Goldwater and Morris Udall but since then, well, Sarah Palin’s godfather, Dan Quayle’s son and Sheriff Joe so we can’t be surprised.

]]> By: dempsey63 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107360 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:22:52 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107360 Those legislators can teach the Cardinals quite a bit about football.

Why, I overheard one of them explaining to the Bidwills the other day how a ‘kickback’ worked.

]]> By: krow101 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107356 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:09:59 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107356 Bribes are always gratefully accepted by our politicians. Kudos to the Cardinals for helping pervert and undermine our government.

USA … USA … USA …

]]> By: Exiled1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107355 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:08:47 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107355 Free Cardinals tickets can’t get you THAT much political clout. Maybe get rid of some old parking tickets or something.

]]> By: PFTiswhatitis http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107353 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:51:20 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107353 Is everyone corrupt?

]]> By: lynnko http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107350 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:43:28 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107350 How is the acceptance of free tickets legal? At least each legislator should be investigated for tax evasion.

]]> By: joetoronto http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107348 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:33:45 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107348 It that’s not corruption, nothing is.

]]> By: skoobyfl http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/26/free-tickets-helped-cardinals-build-relationships-with-arizona-legislators/#comment-1107347 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:27:32 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=137023#comment-1107347 Is this even legal?

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