Originally Posted by
goaliemn
I'm getting sick of the short sidedness of some of these politicians.. He just doesn't want NW to move out of his state.. but, if he blocks the merger, there's a chance they'll go belly up and then he'll have lots of unemployed, unhappy people in his state, as opposed to a lower number losing their jobs and/or being relocated to atl.
I wonder if he is up for re-election? If so, I'm sure he wants to be seen as the "hero" that saved NW and Minnesota and got himself re-elected in the process. By the time NW went under he'd be convieniently in DC figuring out who to blame for the failure before the next elections.