Bernstein: Ricketts Tap-Dancing Around The Truth

" (CBS) I’m sure he’s saying some of his best friends are black.

If he had an African-American on his Cubs roster, you can bet that Tom Ricketts would be carrying him along as a prop on this current, local road show, on which he’s trying to convince black Chicago aldermen that he and his team have nothing whatsoever to do with the multimillion-dollar “Ricketts Plan” to smear Barack Obama with racially-tinged attack ads.

But Marlon Byrd was the last brother in a blue hat, so there goes that option. There’s always Ernie Banks or Billy Williams. Or Ronnie Woo Woo.

The Sun-Times reports that Ricketts is reaching out to the 19 City Council members that form the “Black Caucus,” trying to distance himself and his baseball team from his father’s hard-right brand of politics. Tom needs taxpayer money, but his dad is going great lengths to decry exactly that kind of government spending.

Joe Ricketts bought the Cubs. The kids are out front, but the deal was done with Joe’s money "

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