display: inline-block; margin-right: 10px; } Henceforth, he made bank by (mostly) sticking up for the little guytaking on more asbestos companies, the lead paint industry, and a diet pill manufacturer. .inner_percentage.Green { $(document).ready(function(){ clearInterval(nTimer); .votebox_legend .non_result_row { To have a job in local journalism, though, is to tolerate some measure of indignity and upheaval. } San Diego Padres:Last year,Southern California beer distributor Ron Fowlerheaded up an ownership group that included the son and four grandsons of former big-league ownerWalter OMalley, the guy who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Bob Hope was friends with Nixon. } text-align: center; } left: 0; justify-content: center; It was clear, he said, that I didnt trust my new bosses. background-color: #f9f9f9; letter-spacing: .04em; The bad news is that hes ceding a significant and potentially embarrassing chunk of voters to an anti-vaccine activist. }); By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Robert Nutting: Republican Social media accounts: NuttingforHouse.com; facebook.com/BobNutting66 Occupation: Retired pharmacist Education: B.S. position: absolute; max-height: 580px; Washington Nationals:Nobody tells Ted Lerner what to do, former business magazine publisher Bill Regardie told theWashington Post. The paper, which was based for much of its history in a purple-painted building between a drugstore and the Hotel Jerome, developed a reputation for shoe-leather reporting and accountability journalism. Meanwhile, word of my firing was spreading through town. $("#round64502674bd8e0").change(function(){ Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. font-weight: 100; For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. color: white; Pattillo had assured me there were no further restrictions on the Times covering Doronin. event.srcElement.innerText = '[hide]'; text-align: center; .results_text { var ex_votes = t - abcde[this.value].votes; The suit also took issue with a letter to the editor the Times published, claiming the letter falsely implied Doronin was using his Aspen investment to launder tainted money from Russia. His response: You and I might, perhaps, define children differently. As Glass explained, looks can be deceivingAsians are short. Just eight months earlier, Gorsuch and his partners had bought the plot from the Aspen Skiing Company for just $10 million. color: #6db24f; Current Yanks owners Hal and Hank havent given anything to candidates. And on March 4, 2022, Doronin bought a piece of it: nearly one acre on the mountains underdeveloped west side, for $76 million. text-align: center; It is Ballotpedias goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number. } .widget-img { [6][7], Elections for the Maine House of Representatives took place in 2014. (function() { ArteMoreno made his hawking roadside billboards. linkColor: "#0b0080", font-weight: bold;
} This is a singular American town in many respects. A Carroll piece originally headlined Oligarch or Not, New Aspen Investor Has Russian Ties was brightened to New Aspen Investor Has Luxury Hotelier Connections. On each of these stories, a penitent editors note was appended, suggesting that the piece as originally published did not meet The Aspen Times standards for accuracy, fairness and objectivity in its news reporting. Apparently all that this self-proclaimed non-oligarch billionaire and his bulldog lawyers wanted out of their lawsuit was to change some text on AspenTimes.com. 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.. .leg-hnt-title { TheRickettsfamily, which owns the team through a trust, spent almost $14 million on elections last year. } else { 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. 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!!!" font-weight: 300; .election_results_text { .race_header.democratic { The video, which (The following year, Hunter S. 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Then, at 11, Pattillo came to my desk. .widget-row.value-only.black { The team talked about what to do next. font-size: 20px; var ex_votes = t - abcde[this.value].votes; Instead, Ogden wrote its own story about acquiring the paper, and ran it with Krauses byline on it. tBackground: "#CCCCCC", Principal owner Ray Davis made his billion on gas pipelines; in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita his company, Energy Transfer, paid the federal government$10 millionto settle an allegation of price manipulation (the company did not admit to any wrongdoing). border:1px solid #FFB81F; .outer_percentage { display: block; left: 0px; 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!!!" height: 56px; } .expand-all:hover, .collapse-all:hover {cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;} margin-bottom:0px; background-color: #ccc; box-sizing: border-box; If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you. To contribute to the list of Maine scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org. Ogden was beginning settlement discussions with Doronin and, it said, any coverage of him, his suit, or Gorsuch Haus would disrupt those. } Ogden owns more than 50 daily newspapers across the U.S. $('#' + "1" + s).show(); The next week, the people who now controlled the content of the Times traveled to Aspen for damage control and personnel management. color: #888; Built last year with $474 million in public financing, the deal, which will end up costing Miami-Dade County$1.1 billion, has madeLoriathesecond least popular personin South Florida (behind Fidel Castro), according to one 2012 poll. } (Interestingly enough, Americas No. Aspen is strange, but this is a story that could actually take place anywhere. Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting is well aware of fans' frustrations heading into the 2021 season. } margin-top: 1px; I had been fired before my title even changed on the masthead, for doing what I told my bosses I was going to do, after they had promised the restrictions had been lifted. Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. font-weight: bold; They discussed organizing a walkout, publishing a coordinated social-media post, starting a new media organization, making a statement to the Daily News. width: 90%; .rcvrace_header.Republican { } padding-left: 0; background-color: grey; Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. .rcvrace_header.Green { The relationship between Aspens masses and its elites has been complicated since lifts started rumbling up the mountain eight decades ago. In 2012, the Maine State Legislature was in session from January 4 through April 14, in recess from April 14 through May 13, and adjourned May 31. Kansas City Royals: In 1992, when he was still president and CEO of Walmart, David Glass was confronted by NBCs Dateline with evidence of child labor at a T-shirt factory in Bangladesh. Doronins PR reps soon contacted Krause, the Times editor, arguing that Colsons use of the word oligarch and his implication about ties to Putin were defamatory. } Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who has pushed legislation about frivolous journalism lawsuits, publicly denounced my firing. width: 100%; You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Through a representative, Doronin said later that his intention with the lawsuit was to address factual inaccuracies and false and defamatory statements that were having a negative impact, not to suppress ongoing coverage.". She had turned in a full story about Hauensteins speech, but Pattillo and Stanford had edited it down to a few paragraphs. } Correction: This piece originally placed Robert Nuttings luxury resort in West Virginia. .external_links_table { width: auto !important; } Viewed in the context of the competition, with its anti-discrimination settlements and SEC investigations, the Yankees are, like their Opening Day roster, fairly pedestrian. color: white; But most towns dont have an Aspen Daily News or an Aspen Public Radio. A benefit of a citizens legislature is accessibility to state officials. width: 100% !important; Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. dc.embed.loadNote('http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/679115/annotations/98407.js'); Cincinnati Reds:RobertCastellinitook over his familys business and turned it into one of the nations largest fruit, vegetable, and flower distributors. backImage: "flat", 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 if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; .succession-table th, .succession-table tr { font-size: 0.9em; Nutting married Wendy Libby in 1968. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June. As the court put it, The record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees. If only it were true. } 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. 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. width: 35px !important; font-weight: bold; } In 2011 and 2012, he gavemore than $100,000to Republican candidates and committees, including $30,800 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. His fellow owners are a bit more active, though. var ex_votes = t - abcde[l].votes; $('.hideResponses').hide(); width: 500, Morenos worst move as an owner was his insistence on giving his team its clunky new, multi-city moniker. One resigned after 35 years. His Wall Street nickname is marginally more favorable: swamp alligator.. margin-right: 12px; start bringing in more donations than it ever has. .leg-hnt-section-title { display: inline-block; $('#emessage64502674ae4c1').html(' through round ' + this.value + ': ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); .percentage_number { font-weight: 200; The deadline for write-in candidates to run in the general election was September 22, 2014. There were no incumbents in this race. } State executives | var s = "64502674ae4c1"; } } Wendy calls Oakland, ME, home. } color: white; Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. 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. Dont look now, but anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr ., is polling close to 20 percent in some Democratic primary surveys. 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. } I think Contact our sales team. Tampa Bay Rays:Goldman Sachs alum Stuart Sternberg took controlling interest of the club in 2005. letter-spacing: .04em; In their blissful marital life, the Nutting couple has welcomed three kids, all girls. document.getElementById('leg-hnt-toggle6450267552154').addEventListener('click', event => {
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Managing editor Rick Carroll began digging into Doronins Russian assets and his background as a developer, wading through public documents and questioning Doronins representatives. display: inline-block; Miami Marlins:JeffreyLoria, the millionaire art dealer andCharlie Brown-as-philosophy author, is widely consideredthe worst baseball owner of his generation. margin-bottom: -2px !important; .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { padding-bottom: 8px; width: 50px; } The primary election took place on June 14, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. Source. They dont have global power brokers breezing in for conferences. 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. Prior to its acquisition by Goldman, it had been fined $1 million by the National Association of Securities Dealers for delaying paperwork in order to secure a competitive advantage, protect its interests and maximize its profits or minimize its losses. But by the standards of21st-centuryWall Street, the Rays Goldman-stocked front officeably chronicled in Jonah KerisThe Extra 2%looks more George Bailey than BernieMadoff. font-size: 12px; color: #0645ad; The Times had been covering the Gorsuch Haus plan for more than three years already, and we ran an editorial criticizing Gorsuch and his partners for trading on his family name and misleading voters. The Aspen Times has chosen to sensationalize a false narrative that targets Mr. Doronin simply because he was born in what is today Russia in order to attack the development of a luxury resort in Aspen, the 17-page court filing reads. Committee assignments (if elected): } right: 0; background-color: white; Nutting won re-election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2014. On May 20, The Denver Post ran a story on Doronin suing the Times for calling him an oligarch, one of several stories that would carry the magnates name and oligarch together and link them in Google searches for all time. .votebox_legend .non_result_row { .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, visibility: visible; SLKwas no angel either. margin: 0; text-align: left !important; Read: The coronavirus is killing local news. height: 56px; } Incumbent Robert Nutting (R) did not seek re-election. } font-weight: bold; var l = '1' He won in the general election on November 8, 2022. In Aspen, we have an engaged readership that made a lot of noise when the stewards of its journalism institution abnegated their responsibility, abandoning principles of press freedom in the name of business. font-size: 2em; A one-day veto session was held on April 29. (Two of the 5 answers appear to be serious, by the way. text-align: center; 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. } in Pharmacy. Sign up and get top stories to begin the day delivered to your inbox at 5 a.m. Waterville man arrested after threat to MaineGenerals Thayer Center for Health causes lockdown, One injured after car crashes into Vassalboro home, bursts into flames, Towns challenge new Maine law meant to ease housing crisis. background-color: red; [21], } var s = "64502674bd8e0"; .widget-row.Independent, .widget-row.Nonpartisan, .widget-row.Constitution { .rcvtooltip { 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.). His career experience includes working as a pharmacist. [8][9][10][11], Nutting won re-election in the 2012 election for Maine House of Representatives District 78. .rcvvotebox, h5.rcvrace_header, .rcvresults_text, .rcvresults_table_container, .rcvvotebox_legend { .leg-hnt-flex-column { The CEOs, the mysterious tycoons, and figures like the former Starwood homeowner Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan liveusually very part-timein compounds that employ a whole valley of service workers, and their six-figure property-tax bills fund good schools, public amenities, and subsidized employee housing for those of us in Aspens middle-class underclass. float: right; I know I can re-establish those collegial relationships to pass common sense legislation that helps Mainers. .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. font-size:0.58em; background-color: #f9d334; .rcvrace_header.Libertarian { In the newsroom, we wondered how Ogden had so quickly and thoroughly abandoned the bedrock principle of editorial independence to let powerful forces dictate the terms of our reporting. Property sales topped $4.6 billion last year, and the average single-family-home price hit $11 million. float:right; But at least they arent a hedge fund, I thought. } var x = '%7B%221%22%3A%7B%22votes%22%3A221%7D%7D'; border: 1px solid #999; flex: 0 0 175px; text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; Two hours later, I walked into the Times conference room, Aspen Mountain framed in the window before me. $(".expand-all").on('click', () => { } $('#emessage64502674bd8e0').html(' through round ' + this.value + ': ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); without making any discernible investment, the worst baseball owner of his generation, Southern California beer distributor Ron Fowler. While Kendrick claimed to oppose the bill, the Republican donor also reportedly held a private fundraiser for an SB 1070 proponent, state Sen. Jonathan Paton, in his private box at Chase Field. Detroit Tigers:Little Caesars founder MikeIlitchcant compete with the teams former pizza-mogul owner, Dominos founder TomMonaghan, who built his ownquasi-theocratic townshipin South Florida. border-bottom: 1px solid grey; font-style: italic; .inner_percentage.Green { Then he ended the interview. I was there because Nuttings company, Ogden Newspapers, had just bought us. Read below the matrix for the full breakdown. margin-top: 0px; .leg-hnt-leadership-title { .leg-hnt-toggle-text { max-height: 355px; We ran corrections regularly when we made factual mistakes, of course. $('#candidate-connection-email-118219').on('click', () => { ga('send', 'event', 'surveycta', 'surveycta-click-email'); }); $('#' + this.value + s).show(); color: #fff; } background-color: #6db24f; padding-bottom: 8px; width: 50px; How hot is this story? she asked. $(".results_table64502674bd8e0").hide(); The West Virginia company traced its origins to H. C. Ogdens founding of The Wheeling News in 1890 and now included 54 daily papers from Hawaii to North Dakota to New Hampshire. } clear: both; margin: 5px auto; Thats when family patriarch KennethMonfortsold out to ConAgra, and theMonfortboys became ConAgra execs. Ted Lerner is not used to being told what to do. width: 90%; font-weight: 300; .widget-key { background-color: grey; The Pirates haven't appeared in a postseason game since }); Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer, and campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. float: left; } .results_row td { overflow: hidden; width: 100%; display: block; Meanwhile, the Streisand effect was taking hold: Doronins apparent effort to muzzle the story was only drawing more attention to it. $(window).unload(function(){$("#round64502674ae4c1").val($("#round64502674ae4c1").children('option').length).change(); } margin-bottom: 0px; Since taking over as owner in 2007, Bob Nutting's Pittsburgh Pirates franchise has made the playoffs just three times, and the club will not be making it a fourth time in 2022. We assumed the company would support its journalists, that wed report a story about the lawsuit that day, and that wed get back to work.
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