} p.survey-response {white-space: pre-line;} The signature filing deadline for party candidates wishing to run in this election was March 17, 2014. .inner_percentage.Republican { Stanford was already seated at the table, laptop open. @media (max-width:600px) { flex: 0 0 150px; $('#emessage64502674ae4c1').html(' Total : ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); .rcvrace_header.Libertarian { column-rule: 1px solid #aaa; The team talked about what to do next. } None listed. .key-messages li:last-child { margin-bottom: 0px;} display: table; By the time the scam fell apart in December 2008, Wilpon and his partners had invested some $550 million. display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; He told me he was resigning and encouraged me to apply for his job. padding-bottom: 0px; background: #4c4c4c; We could be writing a story every day and running columns every day about this and it would not be enough. Of course, we werent even doing that. Instead, Ogden officials ordered us to cease writing about anything remotely related to the lawsuit. .widget-row { We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. } Dont look now, but anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr ., is polling close to 20 percent in some Democratic primary surveys. Social media accounts: } margin-top: 1px; margin: 8px auto; width: 100% } if (l > 1){ .mw-body #mw-content-text .votebox .race_header h5.votebox-header-election-type { [6][7], Elections for the Maine House of Representatives took place in 2014. Weve said it before, and well say it again: If Bob Nutting doesnt want to pay to field a legitimate Major League Baseball team in For example, an advocacy groups scorecard may assess a legislators voting record on one issue while a state newspapers scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety. .rcvvotebox, h5.rcvrace_header, .rcvresults_text, .rcvresults_table_container, .rcvvotebox_legend { Box 100, Oakland, ME 04963 Contact: (207) 629-7035 Seat Number: 101 House District: 66 Town(s): Oakland / Party margin: 0px 10px; They did, however, manage to trademark the expression Evil Empire.. font-weight: bold; Milwaukee Brewers:By all accounts, MarkAttanasiois alaid-back, baseball-savvy guywho also happens to run an investment company that manages some $11 billion in assets. width: 35px !important; } (Doronin has not been sanctioned and says he has no ties to Putin or Russia.) } font-size: 12px; color: #fff; .votebox-results-cell--number { } font-weight: 300; The plot of land is one of the most sought-after patches of sloped dirt in ski country, the site of the 1950 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, which helped put Aspen on the map. Jonathan Drake/Reuters. You may know minority owner Wayne Perry as the president of the Boy Scouts of America,which is still weighingwhether it should keep discriminating against gay children. His farewell column was subtle but pointed: Any ownership change in any business is tough, but Ive been through a few in my nearly 40 years as a newspaper journalist, and Im not up for another one at this point in my career, he wrote. Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who has pushed legislation about frivolous journalism lawsuits, publicly denounced my firing. .race_header.green { Sternbergs only political gift in 2012, a grand total of $1,000, went to Sen. KirstenGillibrand(D-NY). } We seemed to be a safe harbor for small-town journalists. Locals and elected officials try to beat back the pace of development, but Aspens big money tends to do what it wants. $('#emessage' +s).html(' Total : ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); Last year, Perry and co-owner Robert Glaser gave six figures to Republican and Democratic super-PACs, respectively. visibility: visible; That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. .results_text { width: 350px; It looks like you do not have any active subscriptions. The video, which already has 1.2 million views as of Thursday (August 4), was shared by the twitter account @cityofsteelspo1 with the caption "FOR THE YINZERS!!!" As of 2022, he is the last Republican Maine House Speaker. .votebox-results-cell--check { } Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. On top of that, the Mets stadium sold its naming rights to Citigroup in 2006 for $400 million, a few years before the bank had received$45 billion in TARP money. Married to Wendy Nutting; three children, five grandchildren. $(".collapse-all").on('click', () => { Most of it went to Republicans, but daughter Laura, an Obama bundler, gave more than $575,000 to Democrats. I also received a verbal offer for the open editor job at their paper in Park City, Utah, which came on the heels of a February conversation about becoming editor of the Summit Daily News. margin: 0 5px; The terms of the agreement would remain confidential. } A city-council member speculated in our pages that the land had been a nice safe place to park money. Stickers were pasted around downtown with the word GORSUCKS emblazoned below a Soviet hammer and sickle. .external_links_table { width: auto !important; } WebRobert Nuttingis 65 years old and was born on 10/07/1956. color: #0645ad; font-weight: bold; How bad could it be? } } .race_header.republican { } background-color: #003388; .non_result_row th { display: table; } border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; $('.hideResponses').hide(); Meanwhile, the Streisand effect was taking hold: Doronins apparent effort to muzzle the story was only drawing more attention to it. Doronins spokesperson reached out Tuesday morning to The Aspen Times to threaten a lawsuit about the use of the term oligarch which the Times has amended and pointed out that Doronin has publicly denounced Putins invasion.. Pittsburgh Pirates:The Nutting family has had an ownership stake in the Pirates since the mid-90s, and a majority share since 2007. vertical-align: top; (She also launched a super-PAC to supportLGBTcandidates.) margin: 0; width: 100%; Cameron Nutting Williams was the next company representative to talk to me about taking the job. } overflow-y: hidden; On Monday morning, in a meeting with Pattillo and Stanford, they asked for me to be reinstated. .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, I hope it was all for a real good purpose. But Morse wanted to make one thing clear in his interview with the Globe: When its chartered, it never has the logo of the Red Sox on it. Henry gave almost $1 million to Democrats between 1992 and 2004, but nothing in 2012. The video, which Thats when family patriarch KennethMonfortsold out to ConAgra, and theMonfortboys became ConAgra execs. font-size: 1.2em; color: #888; Though we didnt learn of Gorsuchs threat right away, he quickly confirmed those fears. max-width: 75px; text-align: left; letter-spacing: .04em; margin-right: 10px; } .votebox-results-cell--number { background-color: #003388; padding-left: 0; line-height: 1.5em; .race_header { .inner_percentage { Nutting ran unopposed in the November 2 general election. The week of July 4, it was five, including just two full-time reporters. .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, font-weight: bold; Oakland Town Council, current member; Oakland Lions Club, past president. font-size: .9em; if (this.value == '1'){ if (document.getElementById('leg-hnt-content6450267552154').classList.contains('leg-hnt-hide')) { display: inline-block; Or even baseball: He has been the owner of the Mariners for the last two decades, but has never once been to a game. margin-top: 1em; Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. background-color: #6db24f; legislatorID: 20708, His fellow owners are a bit more active, though. height: 100%; Soon thereafter, he was back in the news: Arizona legislators passed the states draconian anti-immigration law, SB 1070, and activists were calling for boycotts of the Diamondbacks and the 2011 All-Star Game at Chase Field. width: 100%; height: 50px; width: 100%; const abcde =JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(x)); background-color: #f9d334; Profiles of the septuagenarian invariably mention how, when he was starting out, his workdays would start at the crack of dawn (hard work!) } } New York Yankees:TheSteinbrennerbrothers father, shipping magnate George, was banned from baseballtwiceonce for paying a gambler to spy on his own player, and once for attempting to cover up illegal donations to Richard Nixons 1972 reelection campaign. Boston Red Sox: John Henry, the teams majority owner, purchased the franchise in 2002 with the earnings from his commodities futures trading company. $('#emessage'+s).empty(); Less than two weeks into the invasion, when Gorsuch flipped a piece of the towns history to a Soviet-born billionaire, the town lit up. } Maine House 66 covers portions of Kennebec County, including Oakland and parts of Sidney; in Somerset County, Mercer, Smithfield and Starks. document.getElementById('leg-hnt-content6450267552154').classList.remove('leg-hnt-hide'); How hot is this story? she asked. St. Louis Cardinals:In the early 1990s, William DeWitt Jr. helped put together an ownership groupincluding George W. Bushthat would go on to buy the Texas Rangers. start bringing in more donations than it ever has. Robert Nutting apparently has been content to collect handsome profits without reinvesting in better personnelalthough the Pirates did manage to secure$228 million in public fundingfor PNC Park. font-size: 12px; font-weight: 100; It was the biggest story in town. background-color: #f4f4f4; } (He eventually settled for half that.) opacity:1 !important; And by virtue of being Aspen, we have the eyes of the world on us. A scorecard evaluates a legislators voting record. Ilitchand his wife, Marian, gave $184,000 to federal candidates in 2012, mostly to Republicans. But there are probably worse ways to make your money than what Slates Matt Yglesias calls a scam where one class of rich people rips off another class of rich people. When minority partner Phillip Morse (who founded a medical device company) chartered his private jet to the CIA, he never expected that it might end up being used for something nefariouslike the rendition of terror suspects to countries with less humane methods of interrogation. max-height: 580px; if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; .succession-table th, .succession-table tr { justify-content: center; He had left Goldman in 2002, two years after it had acquired his firm, Spear, Leeds & Kelloggand six years before Goldman helped bring down the global economy. They dont have global power brokers breezing in for conferences. If it did it here, the company could do it anywhere. .election_results_text { }); The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Robert Nutting in round 1 . I first saw Bob Nuttings grinning face in a Zoom square on the morning of Tuesday, November 30, 2021, when I was summoned to a surprise all-company meeting for Swift, which operated The Aspen Times and its sister papers across ski country. Because the development had required rezoning and had used a taxpayer subsidy, approval had been put to a highly contentious public vote that Gorsuch Haus won by just 26 votes. } margin-right: 12px; } Charlie and DickMonforthelped run the eponymous Big Ag empire until 1987. fontFamily: "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif", The bad news is that hes ceding a significant and potentially embarrassing chunk of voters to an anti-vaccine activist. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. float: left; overflow-x: scroll; .survey-result {padding:10px;} In this case, its the Canadian telecom giant Rogers Communications, which is prohibited by law from contributing to American political campaigns. .results_table_container { top: -120px; } [14] Democratic candidate George Hite withdrew from the race after the primary. A paragliderslashlimo driver wrote in calling for a boycott of the Times. text-align: center; Aspen is strange, but this is a story that could actually take place anywhere. text-align: left; I hoped I could use the apparent trust the company had in me to get them to stop censoring our coverage. To see all bills sponsored by this person, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.

. On Sunday, I met with the remaining editorial staff on Rick Carrolls porch. Ted Lerner is not used to being told what to do. Because the bottom line: Corporations and powerful people with deep pockets will never sustain the type of journalism Mother Jones exists to do. padding-bottom: 8px; 2 landowner is none other than former Braves owner Ted Turner.) } letter-spacing: .04em; His father was a roofer and plumber and his mother was a nurse. Seattle Mariners:HiroshiYamauchiis the former president and chairman of Nintendo, and the man responsible for introducing the world toPokmoneven though he cant stand video games. } Its drama unfolds in a superficially idyllic mountain community where a 1969 mayoral candidates slogan, Sell Aspen or Save It, still sums up its core conflict. top: -5px; } } Angelos agreed to take the lead in a massive suit by the states against tobacco giant Philip Morris only after demanding 25 percent of the winningsfar greater than any other attorney received. font-size: 16px; border-bottom: 1px solid grey; Ogdens brass had now been pursuing me for weeks to replace Krause, and now they were lobbying me in person; I had been told I was their only candidate. U.S. Congress | .contact_entity {font-size: 1.0em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 0.5em;} After last weeks Pirates conversation in U mad, bro?, he comes out throwing bombs about Pirates owner Bob Nutting. Robert Nuttings daughters, Cameron Nutting, Lachlan Nutting, and Taylor Nutting, must have grown up enjoying a comfortable lifestyle as they come from an influential business family. .non_result_row th { The results have been certified. } The more we reported, the more the paper was inundated: a cascade of correction and retraction demands from Doronins people on nearly everything we published about him. Carroll was instructed to not pursue the story further. Committee assignments (if elected): $(".expand-all").on('click', () => { document.getElementById('leg-hnt-content6450267552154').classList.add('leg-hnt-hide'); Help save Aspen by funding the purchase of freedom and truth by buying the Times or funding a new paper where truth, integrity, and honor have a home. (Thus far, none of Aspens many billionaires has heeded the call.). clearInterval(nTimer); } } text-align: center; It came that very first day, when Ogden sent a press release about the change of ownership to David Krause, the editor, and instructed him to run it in the next days paper. The filing goes to great lengths to detail how Doronin earned his wealth legitimately, and argues a semantic fine point: Oligarchs are not merely wealthy individuals of Russian origin; they are individuals who have amassed their wealth through the exploitation of Russian natural resources, corrupt direction of Russian state-owned enterprises, and close political affiliation with Vladimir Putin. This description, the suit argues, does not fit Doronin. A 19-year veteran columnist at the Times and a fifth-generation Aspenite from an old mining and skiing family, Marolt had opposed the 2019 Gorsuch Haus campaign, but the new column was relatively innocuous. It is Ballotpedias goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.