After Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) knocked the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team during a Friday campaign event, the team promptly fired back on Twitter.
Kasich brought up the team, which he said he’d run into in his New Hampshire hotel lobby Friday morning, as an example of the value of skilled labor, according to ABC News.
“The reason why some of them make a lot of money is because they have skills,” Kasich told the audience at a Manchester, New Hampshire town hall. “Not too many Sixers have had that many skills lately, but they do.”
The 76ers took note of the dig, hitting back from their team Twitter account. “At least we win more than 2% of the time,” the tweet read.
The comment was a knock at the Ohio governor’s consistently low poll numbers. But the NBA team apparently didn’t stand by it. The tweet has since been deleted.
When will people learn? Interns should not have access to your Twitter feed.
Hey, they are skilled labor and can have an opinion. Kaisch would rather listen to the owners rather than employees, but hey, enough of them are in the one percent.
Another example of a ® attempting humor.
I really can’t recall when one said something funny-- intending it to be funny.
Besides it’s NBA preseason.
Even if the Sixers hadn’t won a single game–
Kasich’s one-liner just don’t zing.
~sigh~
jw1
Ready for that PA primary, huh John?
NBA players’ salary is not based on their skills. Instead, it is based on their talent. Skills can be taught. Talent is God given. Therefore, his analogy has the wrong basis to begin with.