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GAME ON?

After Mayor Rahm Emanuel left a news conference on Wednesday when asked about Cubs patriarch Joe Ricketts and his super PAC's proposed Rev. Jeremiah Wright-Obama attack ad, some speculated how the controversy could impact the Ricketts' efforts to drum up city support for renovations at Wrigley Field.

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The Center for Public Integrity: Can $250,000 buy a senator?

In the aftermath of Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary in Nebraska, campaign finance watchdogs are concerned about the role businessman Joe Ricketts played in helping underdog state Sen. Deb Fischer secure the GOP nomination.

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The Week to Week News Quiz for May 18, 2012

This was not a week for the weak at heart.

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Meet The Billionaire Behind The Jeremiah Wright Attack Plan

Perhaps it wasn't how he hoped to make a splash, but TD Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts hit the political big time this week when The New York Times reported that the Wyoming-based billionaire had commissioned a plan for a super PAC ad campaign attacking President Barack Obama over his past association with the...

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Rahm 'Livid' Over Ricketts' Controversial Obama Attack Ad

Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is "livid" over a proposed $10 million ad campaign funded by TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts that would tie President Barack Obama to his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Joe Ricketts News From the Web

05/26/12 Cynthia Tucker â Obama's spendthrift reputation is... Source: The Daily World - Aberdeen WA The last 10 days or so have left Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, in damage-control mode as he tries to distance himself from an incendiary, racially charged anti-Barack Obama ad campaign that would have featured the president's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
05/25/12 GAME ON? Source: The Huffington Post - Local After Mayor Rahm Emanuel left a news conference on Wednesday when asked about Cubs patriarch Joe Ricketts and his super PAC's proposed Rev. Jeremiah Wright-Obama attack ad, some speculated how the controversy could impact the Ricketts' efforts to drum up city support for renovations at Wrigley Field.
05/24/12 Rahm Emanuel's walkout Source: Politico Mayor Rahm Emanuel laughed and then walked out of a news conference on Wednesday when asked why he has not returned an apologetic phone call from Ricketts after revelations surfaced about his father's involvement in a conservative SuperPAC considering a $10 million plan to attack the president by resurrecting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy.
05/23/12 Republicans Can?t Get Away From Practicing Racism Source: The Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley News Journal - Pasadena CA In a plan called "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama", the owner of the Chicago Cubs and founder of TD Ameritrade, Joe Ricketts, has spent over ten million dollars to put together a smear campaign against America's first Black President.
05/23/12 Clarence Page: Right-wing rage trips up itself Source: Beloit Daily News - Beloit WI I'LL SAY this for the Supreme Court's decision to open the floodgates to big money by independent groups in political campaigns.

Background on Joe Ricketts

J. Joe Ricketts (born July 16, 1941) is the founder, former CEO and former chairman of TD Ameritrade, one of the largest online discount brokerages in the world, based in Omaha, Nebraska.

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