Relatives of owners who help run teams also are helping Romney. Arizona Cardinals’ owner Bill Bidwil

The owners of the New England Patriots and the New York Jets, squads meeting last Sunday with first place at stake in the American Football Conference's Eastern southwest airlines and low fares Division, lined up on opposite sides in the political arena as well.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft has given $5,000 - the maximum allowed under federal election law - to President southwest airlines and low fares Obama. The Jets's Woody Johnson not only has funneled the same amount to presidential candidate Mitt Romney, he serves as the New York finance chairman for the former Massachusetts governor, a Patriots fan.
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Relatives of owners who help run teams also are helping Romney. southwest airlines and low fares Arizona Cardinals' owner Bill Bidwill and his son, Michael, have combined to contribute $7,500 to the Republican, and four members of the Spanos family, southwest airlines and low fares which owns the San Diego Chargers, have donated $11,000.
"These are all multimillionaires and billionaires," said Michael Cramer, director of the Texas Program in Sports and Media at the University of Texas in Austin and a former president of the Texas Rangers baseball team and the Dallas Stars hockey franchise. "They are clearly supporting the party that will deliver southwest airlines and low fares best results as they see it from a tax and economy standpoint."
"It's just to thank everybody, to bring everybody up to speed in terms of what's going on," Johnson told reporters as he entered a dinner gala at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where he later would see a video of Donald Trump telling Obama, "You're fired!"
southwest airlines and low fares Despite Johnson's support, Romney declared his allegiance to the Jets' division rivals in a September appearance on "Live," the television program hosted by Kelly Ripa and former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan.
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