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What The NHL Is Doing In Calgary Is Pretty Gross

A massive, multinational company is inserting itself into Calgary’s mayoral election, attacking an incumbent whose policies are preventing said company from obtaining hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer handouts, and overtly threatening citizens that unless they vote the way the company wants, they’ll leave town.

Oh, and about all of this, Gary Bettman has the gall to say, “I don’t weigh into politics.”

That description above is, of course, the fundamental conflict at the heart of the entire stadium financing scam, where teams and leagues demand public money for their private business while functionally extorting taxpayers and elected officials with the threat of relocation. But rarely has it been so blatant as this