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Cory Booker: “It's going to the pockets and the profits of vulture…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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And where is that money going? Is it going to help more kids have access? Is it going to improve facilities for more kids to play on? No, It's going to the pockets and the profits of vulture capitalists who are seizing and feasting almost in a cancerous way on great American pastime. on the ideal of sports, on the democratization that is athletics. And so this bill is not important. (14:21–14:40)

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Asserts that profits from sports are going to vulture capitalists.

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