Spreuken over Geld

He wanted to put public money into it,

The cleanest way to have an election is to have money that doesn't come from special interests, ... In the long run it's a much better system. The system is better served if you put limits on what people can spend.

it's to encourage investors to put more money into Palm Springs.

Qualcomm has a very viable patent portfolio, and they are trying to extract the maximum amount of money out of it that they can while at the same time the licensees are looking to spend as little as possible for the right to use the patents. It is likely that what is going on is some business maneuvering going on both sides.

This is not good news for the poor in Massachusetts. The money is not just waiting out there to be scooped up by Massachusetts. Residents will have to lose that money first.