The Chargers Have Disappointed Me Again – and not on the playing field

I heard a little blurb on the news yesterday about the fact that the professional football teams donate money to political parties. The newscaster named the main teams and which parties they favored. Their donations were shown on a graph that indicated rather small sums of money donated. It made a sort of short picket fence at the bottom of the graph.

Then he came to the Chargers and Wow! Their donation went almost to the top of the graph –.many times more than any other team. And they had donated it to the Republicans! I didn’t catch how much their donation was. With money like that to give away, they should be building their own new stadium that they want so badly.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. This is a military town with the huge naval base and a marine air base at Miramar. In my experience military people tend to be Republicans. I was both in the navy and later part of a navy family for 34 years. I don’t know what excuse the rest of the town has. Now, at every election I know my vote will be for naught because we Democrats are very much outnumbered. At least we used to be. With so many Republicans beginning to doubt the current modus operandi of their leaders I suspect they are leaving the party just as I did about 10 years ago when they were badgering Clinton. But, as I have heard at least two former congressmen say recently, "We didn’t really leave the party. The Republican Party left us."

I have thought that I should have changed a long time before that because the Democrats advocate more closely my philosophy about the government protecting the middle and lower classes from the greed of business giants. I think that is what President Obama is trying to do and I'll keep backing him all the way.