Curt Schilling considering Senate run
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I don't know very much about Curt Schilling, I though he was pitcher for the Red Sox. What makes him a failure,dipshit and a jerk?
Running in Mass as a Republican makes no sense. Mass people elected manslaughter Ted and lying Pocahontas Warren. An honest conservative person stands no chance.
You can decide for yourself if the following brief account meets the definition of "failure"....and if you want to say this comes from a Left-leaning/Leftist source,. that's OK with me (there are plenty of other sources for details on Schilling's failed venture).
http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/b.../end-curt-schilling-was-only-about-curt-schil
As for how big a jerk some consider him to be, a Google search will result in plenty of ammo for those who find themselves opposed to him. What I myself will say is that many of his stated positions on issues of the day......and he clearly believes people care about them.....do lean Right of political center. In any event, he would be an interesting foil for Liz Warren should he indeed earn his party's nomination for her seat. No matter how you slice it, that would be one damned loud horse race.
Meanwhile, I myself figured him to be angling....at least once his ESPN gig crashed.....to be some kind of political radio talk show host. Of course, he's got to find a production company willing to pay him the (presumably) several million/year I suspect he thinks he deserves. I guess I also figured his agent has probably left several dozen messages on Roger Ailes' phone over the past couple years.
I cannot think of anyone on the board more qualified to arrive at this position - a self anointed anti Hillary independent.
A drunk Ted Kennedy drives into a creek, the girl with him drowns, and he walks a long way back to town. Her family is bought off and the fine people of Mass continually re-elects him to office. Fine up standing people of Mass. They've elected another person who lied on her resume to get a teaching position at Harvard. She's no more native Indian than I'm the King of England.
Very funny.......whats up your alley? You don't have to answer.....I think we can figure it out.
Disciplined candidates willing to compromise and learn, while pushing a pro business, pro trade, smaller government agenda.
What Curt Schilling did to the taxpayers of Rhode Island is no joke.
Schilling cost taxpayers millions so he could chase his dream of developing video games.
Ruler Of The Kingdom
In 2006, Schilling announced the founding of Green Monster Games, later renamed 38 Studios, in Maynard, Massachusetts, to develop a game in the style of World of Warcraft. The company had some flashy talent across the board — in addition to Schilling, popular fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and popular comic-book artist and toy designer Todd McFarlane were part of the creative team, and Schilling recruited game industry veterans such as Brett Close and Jon Laff to run the company, and in 2009 bought Big Huge Games, a beloved developer of strategy games.
From the start, though, Schilling was unhappy with how he was treated by the state of Massachusetts. Schilling campaigned for enormous tax credits from the state under Massachusetts’ film tax credit program. But despite the stereotypes of Red Sox Nation, love of players only goes so far: Schilling got nowhere.
The state had excellent reason to be skeptical of Schilling’s claims. Despite the success of World of Warcraft, this particular genre of game, the MMORPG, is notoriously difficult to break into, let alone build into a profitable franchise. Even seemingly sure things, like Star Wars: The Old Republic, ultimately didn’t achieve the level of success Schilling was promising. Most MMOs these days are free to play and make money by selling players cosmetic items, and are most popular in Asia, but Schilling’s game would be built on subscriber revenue.
Rhode Island, however, was happy to bring 38 Studios to the state, and gave Schilling’s company a $75 million loan through the state’s economic development arm. 38 Studios claimed it would bring 450 jobs to Rhode Island by the end of 2012. As part of that, it announced Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a single-player game that would introduce players to the world of the MMO, called Project Copernicus, which would launch soon after.
The Fall
In February 2012, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning arrived to generally positive reviews, but to relatively tepid sales. The issue was, simply, to make the kind of money 38 Studios needed, it needed to sell at least three million copies: By the end of its first month on the shelves, it’d sold only a tenth of that. For all the hype surrounding the game and the talent behind it, it was a solid but unspectacular open-world action RPG, a fairly common experience players could find elsewhere. Amalurjust didn’t stand out.
The reckoning, long brewing behind the scenes, was swift and painful. On May 18th, the studio sent the state of Rhode Island a bad check for its $1.125 million loan payment and less than a week later, 38 Studios summarily closed, firing its entire staff. Almost immediately, no fewer than four separate law enforcement agencies launched investigations into 38 Studios and how it was funded. Rhode Island quickly sued and in 2014, settled for $4.4 million.
At issue, and what the SEC is currently attempting to figure out, is whether 38 Studios could have everdelivered on what it promised to Rhode Island. MMOs are expensive games: In addition to the development costs, studios have to pay for infrastructure to run the game, and staff to moderate disputes and keep the game running behind the scenes. A recent MMO, The Elder Scrolls Online, was rumored to cost $200 million just to create the game itself. Was 38 Studios, and Schilling, just overconfident his name and number could sell video games? Or did they deliberately defraud taxpayers to chase a dream?
The Empty Kingdom
Schilling, for his part, claims he lost $50 million of his own money on 38 Studios, although he continues to blame former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chaffee, referring to him as “Mrs. Chaffee,” for the mess. As for the game Schilling dreamed of, and the state of Rhode Island paid millions for, it currently sits somewhere in the state archives, waiting to be sold off.
And there it will likely remain, an empty kingdom built on either belief or deception, depending on the ruling of the courts. The game is unlikely to be revived, let alone finished, but the story behind it will linger on for a while yet.
All good traits. Let me know of a current candidate like that and I'll vote for them.....Hell yes.