GOP Leaders Warn Pro Sports Leagues Not to Promote Obamacare | TPMDC

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told TPM the league has “no plans” to engage on Obamacare.

“We have responded to the letters we received from members of Congress to inform them we currently have no plans to engage in this area and have had no substantive contact with the administration about PPACA’s implementation,” McCarthy said in an email.

Asked about the suggestion that the administration may have been threatening or pressuring the NFL, McCarthy responded, “Not correct. [Q]uite simply, the NFL , NBA and others were contacted by the administration. We made no commitments nor discussed any substantive details with the administration.”

McConnell’s spokesman Michael Brumas told TPM that the senator “is not alleging the administration has threatened or pressured the sports leagues. See the next to the last graf of the letter which says ‘Should the administration,’ etc.”

They have their clown shoes on again!