By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) The Cubs have withdrawn their offer to the aldermen for face-value World Series tickets.
The problem is that the face-value ticket offer violated the ban on gifts to the aldermen worth more than $50.
Alderman Anthony Beale (9th), who went to the 2005 White Sox World Series on face-value tickets, the real unethical part of this is something else.
“There are a lot of people paying for the tickets, just because they let the brokers buy bulk tickets, then jack their prices up and make millions of dollars,” Beale said. “That’s the unfairness of it all when you really look at it. The average person can’t get tickets because the brokers are cornering the market. It’s unethical for the brokers to make all this money because they are basically a middle man jacking the prices up.”
Beale turns the tables further by saying the Cubs have withdrawn the ticket offer because they just don’t want the scrutiny.
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