Democratic presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders have pushed the MLB not to get rid of minor league teams ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
Bernie Sanders, other Democratic presidential candidates and bipartisan members of Congress have pushed Major League Baseball not to cut its affiliation with up to 42 minor league teams.
He points to an image of Bo Jackson, the multi-sport superstar who took baseball's Memphis Chicks by storm when Tornow worked for the team in 1986. He notes a photo of Ryne Sandberg and recalls how the Chicago Cubs legend "packed" Clinton's stadium when he visited as manager of the Peoria Chiefs. The political furor against the MLB has proved the sharpest in Iowa, which sits under a microscope ahead of Monday's first-in-the-nation 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses. Three teams in the state from small cities along the Mississippi River – the LumberKings, Burlington Bees and Quad Cities River Bandits in Davenport – could lose their link to the MLB. Severing that connection dents their prospects for survival.
A Lowell, Mass., team could fall by the wayside at the end of the year. The senators argued the plan would "cause significant economic damage to the City of Lowell, eliminate an important piece of the community's cultural footprint and disappoint baseball fans of all ages," according to the Boston Globe.
"I don't want to tell you that was the sole reason that I've developed the politics that I've developed," Sanders told the newspaper. "But as a kid, I did see in that case about the greed of one particular company. And that impacted me." Tornow said "I don't know what else I'd do" if he could no longer work for the LumberKings after more than 20 years with the team.
Both candidates also stopped in Burlington, which sits just over a two-hour drive southwest of Clinton, in the last stretch before the caucuses. Des Moines County, where Burlington sits, has more registered Democrats than Republicans. It too flipped dramatically from Obama to Trump in 2016. Bell met with a church group last week at the Beancounter Coffeehouse and Drinkery — a shop that hangs coffee cups on its walls signed by visitors like former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Tim Ryan. O'Rourke stood on a countertop as he spoke to voters crowded into the store early in his presidential campaign last year.
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