Scott Brown's friend Curt Schilling personal ownership guru leaves Rhode Island in the lurch

Thank God Massachusetts wasn't stupid enough to give this man a blank check.

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Please more government money

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Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video game company, 38 Studios, has laid off all its employees, an anonymous source at the company told The Boston Globe on Thursday.

The company, which moved from Massachusetts to Rhode Island in 2010 in exchange for $75 million in guaranteed loans, started to get headlines earlier this month after it missed a $1.1 million loan payment to the state. While it later made the payment, it was reportedly having trouble making payroll. Schilling has asked Rhode Island for more money, but the state has refused.

“There’s no more easy money,” Governor Lincoln Chafee said at a press conference last Friday.

According to the Globe, the Providence-based company had close to 400 employees.

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“To all the prayers and well wishes to the team and families at 38, God Bless and thank you! We will find a way, and the strength, to endure,” he wrote.

But some people aren’t offering an well wishes.

“We got hoodwinked; we got played,” Republican state Representative Robert Watson told the Globe. “How many millions of dollars does Curt Schilling have? He can’t write a check? It’s Rhode Island that is supposed to provide the money? I think not.”

On Friday, Globe columnist Brian McGrory unloaded on Schilling, who over the years has made no secret of his conservative politics.

“Schilling spent no small amount of time in his career preaching the Republican mantra of smaller government and personal responsibility. He did this fresh off the historic Red Sox World Series win when he backed George W. Bush in the 2004 campaign. He did it on the stump on behalf of John McCain in 2008,” McGrory wrote. “Smaller government? Call me crazy, but I’m betting that wasn’t exactly what Schilling was extolling when he sat behind closed doors on Wednesday pleading with the members of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. to put more public money behind his fantasy video game venture.”

Update 4:10 p.m.: 38 Studios has paid the $1.1 million it owed the state after missing a payment May 1, Governor Lincoln Chafee said at a press conference Friday. According the Associated Press, Chafee said the company should now seek private money to stay in business.

“There’s no more easy money,” Chafee said.

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Schilling praying for more tax payer money

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked Rhode Island officials Wednesday for more public funds to bail out his ailing video game company, but Gov. Lincoln Chafee questioned whether the state should cut its losses in the firm, 38 Studios LLC. “How do we avoid throwing good money after bad?,’’ Chafee asked after an emergency meeting of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp., which provided $75 million in loan guarantees to woo 38 Studios to Providence. “The difficulty we face is protecting the taxpayers and looking ahead to the future-whether there’s viability that’s worth any further investment.’’ the governor added. ed.

Is Curt Schilling about to drop a $75 million dollar bill on Rhode Island taxpayers?

Good old Curt Schilling moves jobs from Massachusetts to Rhode Island because the state gives him some free money now they look on the verge of going belly up and dropping the bill on the Rhode Island tax payers. Of course no one can forget the role Schilling played in getting Senator Scott Brown's campaign. One can only imagine that Scott Brown favors having jobs leave the state and then if an important backer fails the bill being given to the little people.

Curt during happier times when they were going to clean up Washington. I guess before that the rich guy never passed the bill onto the tax payers.

Hopefully at least the Rhode Island tax payers each get a bloody sock