I liked what he had to say today...
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It is not often that one of our politicians says something that is insightful, analytical and accurate at the same time. Therefore, let me congratulate Governor Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii for these words on the subject of paying the NFL to hold the Pro Bowl game in Honolulu:
“You can’t do things like give 4 million bucks to a $9 billion football industry and not give any money to children. You’ve got this spectacle of these multimillionaires and billionaires out there arguing about how they’re going to divide it up, and then they come and ask us to bribe them with $4 million to have a scrimmage out here in paradise. We’ve got to get our values straight and our priorities straight.”
After he said that, someone challenged those remarks saying that the Pro Bowl attracted about 20,000 visitors as fans and generated lots more spending by those fans than $4M. The governor then got it right a second time when he said:
“Please. We’ll get more out of civil unions in a weekend then we’ll get out of those guys.”
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