Turning Point - Benson Fiasco

i really ponder, if all that stuff was a smokescreen by Benson though..
think about it, he initially bought the team to keep them in N.O. period.
he's turned down big money to sell them.
granted he's playing the smokescreen to get the state to put their money behind it to so he can make more money off it. But bottom line, was he really intending on moving them?