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  1. Havakasha is offline
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    05-18-2012, 03:01 PM #1

    Small Govt Schilling

    I smell hypocrisy.

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    ERIC LACH MAY 18, 2012, 1:51 PM 4271
    Curt Schilling is a hero to New England baseball fans, known for his performances in high pressure situations. But as a businessman, he’s in big trouble, and not the kind he can pitch his way out of.

    The former MLB all-star’s start-up video game company, 38 Studios, missed a $1.1 million payment to the state of Rhode Island on May 1, and things have only gotten more complicated since.

    Rhode Island lured 38 Studios away from Massachusetts in 2010, in exchange for $75 million in guaranteed loans. At the time, then-Governor Donald Carcieri, a Republican, considered the company a chance to jump-start a new business sector in the state. The company promised to create 450 jobs in three years. Massachusetts officials declined to match Rhode Island’s offer. Earlier this year, the company’s first game, “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,” came out to positive reviews. “It sings with infectious, engaging excellence,” raved The New York Times.

    But the company missed a payment earlier this month, and Schilling was forced to ask for more public assistance this week, The Boston Globe reports. The company said it did not have enough money to make payroll for its nearly 300 employees. The Rhode Island official who oversaw the loan guarantee resigned on Wednesday. And the troubles reached an absurd high point on Thursday, when the company hand-delivered a check to the state for $1.1 million before warning that it didn’t have the funds to cover it.

    “38 Studios arrived at [Rhode Island’s Economic Development Corporation] at 5 p.m. with a check. Upon learning from the CFO of 38 Studios that there were insufficient funds in the account to cover the check, EDC returned the check to 38 Studios,” Christine Hunsinger, a spokesman for Governor Lincoln Chafee, told The Providence Journal on Thursday. “EDC remains willing to accept payment with readily available funds.”

    Late Thursday, Schilling took to his Facebook page to offer a few words on the situation.

    “To all the prayers and well wishes to the team and families at 38, God Bless and thank you! We will find a way, and the strength, to endure,” he wrote.

    But some people aren’t offering an well wishes.

    “We got hoodwinked; we got played,” Republican state Representative Robert Watson told the Globe. “How many millions of dollars does Curt Schilling have? He can’t write a check? It’s Rhode Island that is supposed to provide the money? I think not.”

    On Friday, Globe columnist Brian McGrory unloaded on Schilling, who over the years has made no secret of his conservative politics.

    “Schilling spent no small amount of time in his career preaching the Republican mantra of smaller government and personal responsibility. He did this fresh off the historic Red Sox World Series win when he backed George W. Bush in the 2004 campaign. He did it on the stump on behalf of John McCain in 2008,” McGrory wrote. “Smaller government? Call me crazy, but I’m betting that wasn’t exactly what Schilling was extolling when he sat behind closed doors on Wednesday pleading with the members of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. to put more public money behind his fantasy video game venture.”

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    05-18-2012, 03:46 PM #2
    Reminds me of Solyndra....

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    05-18-2012, 04:10 PM #3
    Which means you will be posting repeatedly about Schilling for the next year. LMFAO.

    I mean you must be outraged about Schilling. No?

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    05-18-2012, 05:01 PM #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Havakasha View Post

    I mean you must be outraged about Schilling. No?
    Absolutely.

    Sadly it happens all the time - on both sides.

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    05-21-2012, 12:10 AM #5
    Look forward to your followups on Schilling and other Republican hypocrisy.
    We all know your very even handed.
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    05-25-2012, 01:30 AM #6
    Somehow i just knew i was going to have to be the one to do the folllow ups. lol.


    Report: Schilling’s Video Game Company Lays Off All Staff

    ERIC LACH MAY 24, 2012, 5:44 PM 3088
    Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video game company, 38 Studios, has laid off all its employees, an anonymous source at the company told The Boston Globe on Thursday.

    The company, which moved from Massachusetts to Rhode Island in 2010 in exchange for $75 million in guaranteed loans, started to get headlines earlier this month after it missed a $1.1 million loan payment to the state. While it later made the payment, it was reportedly having trouble making payroll. Schilling has asked Rhode Island for more money, but the state has refused.

    “There’s no more easy money,” Governor Lincoln Chafee said at a press conference last Friday.

    According to the Globe, the Providence-based company had close to 400 employees.

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    05-25-2012, 09:20 AM #7
    Yeah, doesn't it suck....?