Charles E Butt

[bob bass sucks]

Getting tired of Peter Holt crying about money. I wish Mr Butt(H.E.B), would buy the team!!! Peter wants to keep the hotel tax so upgrades can be done at the center.

[CubanMustGo]

Four Championships.

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[ZStomp]

What are you talking about? How about a link?

[bob bass sucks]

Spurs, county eye tourism tax extension for AT&T renovation. Dated on june 9, 2007, on the metro section.

[dknights411]

Spurs, county eye tourism tax extension for AT&T renovation. Dated on june 9, 2007, on the metro section.

Ummm..... link?

[ChumpDumper]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...r.31636b6.html

Butt how does this affect anyone not renting a car or hotel room?

[ZStomp]

"We don't want it to fall behind others that are being built or upgraded," Holt said. "Our fans demand the best, and we want to give them the best.

How about starting with getting rid of "Ya'll Ready for this?"

[picnroll]

Seems to me the Butt's like to hold on to their money more than most ultra-wealthy. I've lived in other areas where there were families that were mega-wealthy from food chains, VA, St Louis, NY, and those families were much more into public giving than the Butt's. You may need to seek out another chartiable owner.

[HJNTX]

Hmmmm... I won't vote the the tax...We're already taxed to death here ...

[ChumpDumper]

Rent alot of cars and hotel rooms in SA?

[mikeanthony21]

Getting tired of Peter Holt crying about money. I wish Mr Butt(H.E.B), would buy the team!!! Peter wants to keep the hotel tax so upgrades can be done at the center.

It wont happen. Charles Butt is retiring next year and handing over HEB to his nephew who runs HEB-Mexico.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

The Butts are actually pretty charitable, you just don't see them in the public eye when they make their donations.

That said, not sure how getting them into an ownership position would change matters, it's still a conglomerate that owns the Spurs and they'd still operate the same way all others sports teams do - pass as much of the cost to the general public as possible.

[cherylsteele]

Getting tired of Peter Holt crying about money. I wish Mr Butt(H.E.B), would buy the team!!! Peter wants to keep the hotel tax so upgrades can be done at the center.

Well then he should have bought the team when it was up for sale awhile back. Holt stepped up...along with other investors and bought the team where was Mr. Butt's butt then?

[bob bass sucks]

So I take nobody rents a hotel room or a car in San Antonio? How the does the center already need repairs? Have some nuts Holt and pay for the repairs!

[SAGambler]

Hmmmm... I won't vote the the tax...We're already taxed to death here ...

But this is just a tax on out of towners. The tourista. Helps pay the tab for the things we use here.

[SAGambler]

So I take nobody rents a hotel room or a car in San Antonio? How the does the center already need repairs? Have some nuts Holt and pay for the repairs!

Because it is used by 20,000 people, several nights a year. Wear and tear occurs.

[ChumpDumper]

So I take nobody rents a hotel room or a car in San Antonio?

I don't.

How the does the center already need repairs? Have some nuts Holt and pay for the repairs!

They didn't say anything about repairs.

And it's rather specious to speculate a different owner would act differently.

[bob bass sucks]

The funny thing is that, I read a story in the newspaper. I think it was a couple of days before or after this article. A health clinic for the poor in this area was closing, because of lack of money. 18,500 is the seating capacity for the center. Rumor is that, some of the money is going to be used to buy new plasma tvs for the rest of the center

[ChumpDumper]

I think it was a couple of days before or after this article. A health clinic for the poor in this area was closing, because of lack of money.

And?

18,500 is the seating capacity for the center.

And?

Rumor is that, some of the money is going to be used to buy new plasma tvs for the rest of the center

I wouldn't doubt that. Wolff (not anyone from the Spurs) actually said what it would be used for.

[TheTruth]

Seems to me the Butt's like to hold on to their money more than most ultra-wealthy. I've lived in other areas where there were families that were mega-wealthy from food chains, VA, St Louis, NY, and those families were much more into public giving than the Butt's. You may need to seek out another chartiable owner.

The Butt's give a lot of money to charities every year. They just don't feel the need to advertise it to everyone.

[Extra Stout]

The funny thing is that, I read a story in the newspaper. I think it was a couple of days before or after this article. A health clinic for the poor in this area was closing, because of lack of money. 18,500 is the seating capacity for the center. Rumor is that, some of the money is going to be used to buy new plasma tvs for the rest of the center

Portland and Seattle refuse to give any further subsidies to their pro sports teams. Move there.

[FromWayDowntown]

As charitable as the Butt family is, I'm not sure that there's any evidence that a Butt purchase of the Spurs would loosen the pursestrings on AT&T Center Parkway. That seems like a rather significant assumption, particularly given that the Butt family could long ago have purchased the Spurs, when the purchase price (and the necessary capital outlays to run an NBA franchise) was much smaller.

[T Park]

The funny thing is that, I read a story in the newspaper. I think it was a couple of days before or after this article. A health clinic for the poor in this area was closing,

Why should tax money go for charity?

[Sec24Row7]

ROFL... I love the morons on this site.

Pick a Billionaire he has to be better than Holt right?

[bob bass sucks]

Let's see George Steinberg. The Yankees lost 25 million last year. Dude, we are talking about the 2 or 3 million that are needed to upgrade the center. That's the whole topic, an owner crying about a few mil. Holt is a poor rich owner.