iam thinking about running for congress
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Ray
I just got to check one thing before I finalize my vote.
Lets say you get into office and you are doing your job for 9 months everything cool.
Paid holidays, health cov, dinners, drinks, smoozing at partys etc. you are happy in your new job.
Then a lobbyist for a insurance company shows up.
He has made a appoinment and walks into your office. The door is closed and he tells you that he has fifty thousand cash in his briefcase.
He will leave the case with you and all they are asking is that you abstain and don't vote on a pending bill coming before a group you are in. It is not a big deal , it will just allow them to make alot of money.
The no vote to abstain will sway the way to this insurance co.
This is multiple choice.
A. He walks from your office without the briefcase ?
B . You tell him it will be 200 thousand and you will need it by the following Friday as you have a trip to Vegas planned.
C . You call the Capitol Police and have him arrested for bribery of a official.
D . You call Skul and hedge and ask them what you should do.
E. You take the money but have the guy thrown into the Bay with concrete shoes so no one finds out.
F. You see Washington for what it is and head back to Philly resigned to just be a American citizen again.
I just got to check one thing before I finalize my vote.
Lets say you get into office and you are doing your job for 9 months everything cool.
Paid holidays, health cov, dinners, drinks, smoozing at partys etc. you are happy in your new job.
Then a lobbyist for a insurance company shows up.
He has made a appoinment and walks into your office. The door is closed and he tells you that he has fifty thousand cash in his briefcase.
He will leave the case with you and all they are asking is that you abstain and don't vote on a pending bill coming before a group you are in. It is not a big deal , it will just allow them to make alot of money.
The no vote to abstain will sway the way to this insurance co.
This is multiple choice.
A. He walks from your office without the briefcase ?
B . You tell him it will be 200 thousand and you will need it by the following Friday as you have a trip to Vegas planned.
C . You call the Capitol Police and have him arrested for bribery of a official.
D . You call Skul and hedge and ask them what you should do.
E. You take the money but have the guy thrown into the Bay with concrete shoes so no one finds out.
F. You see Washington for what it is and head back to Philly resigned to just be a American citizen again.
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opcorn2 :toast: :00hour
too bad 80% of them aint on the take
America would be on the way to recovery.
term limits.
no more lobby shit
put them in jail when they steal
change the tax codes immediately
no more deficits or Senators and House dont get paid.
Balance a budget or no pay until done.
Root out social security, welfare, food stamp , medicaid fraud
America would be on the way to recovery.
term limits.
no more lobby shit
put them in jail when they steal
change the tax codes immediately
no more deficits or Senators and House dont get paid.
Balance a budget or no pay until done.
Root out social security, welfare, food stamp , medicaid fraud
What Super PAC Donors Really Want Is A Return On Their Investment
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Sheldon Adelson, the highest-spending super PAC donor, has interests in China, Las Vegas and Israel.
WASHINGTON -? Heed their names for they are the country's new power brokers: Sheldon Adelson, David and Charles Koch, Harold Simmons, and Bob Perry, among others. Along with similarly wealthy individuals and groups, they're pouring unprecedented sums into the 2012 election -- tens, perhaps even hundreds, of millions of dollars.
When asked why, they prefer to offer lofty motives. The billionaire Koch brothers speak about libertarianism and the need to save free enterprise. Casino magnate Adelson talks in equally apocalyptic terms about preserving the security and Jewish identity of Israel. Institutions such as the AFL-CIO and the National Education Association tend to stress liberal agenda items such as expanded health care and progressive taxation.
Some super donors say they want to level the playing field in the interest of a fair fight. Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks, President Barack Obama's most influential ally in Hollywood, has said that his goal is to blunt the efforts of Republican strategist Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and other hard-core conservatives to run away with the election.
But all these super donors have other goals that are less high-minded and more specific. Simply put, they want the federal government to do something or to stop doing something. For their money, they want results that will help their bottom line, their industry or their members.
"When people contribute to political action committees," then-Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) said in 1983, "they expect something in return other than good government." And the money back then was trifling, and the rules back then were strict. Now it's anything goes.
So what do the big boys want? What do they really, really want? The Huffington Post looked behind the rhetoric for the potential policy payoffs -- there's truly no other word for it -- sought by 15 individual and institutional super donors in the 2012 campaign.
With the Koch brothers, for example, the motivation has less to do with libertarian ideology than with the fact that many of their industrial and mining companies are environmentally invasive -- to put it mildly. They expect a Republican administration and Congress, if they can buy one, to abolish laws, regulations and regulatory bureaucracies that interfere with their business.
For Adelson, the real close-to-home issue isn't in the Middle East; it's in the Far East -- and in Washington, D.C. Federal investigators are examining whether Adelson's company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering large payments to officials in Macau, where it has a major casino operation. Adelson would like an administration more likely to see his side of that story.
As for the AFL-CIO and the teachers' union, their goal is to preserve collective bargaining rights and union prerogatives at a time when membership has declined in all but public employee unions. Indeed, the main goal is to preserve public employees' collective bargaining rights and benefits, which are under attack at the state level. For these institutions, the identity of the president who has the power to nominate members of the National Labor Relations Board -- an obscure agency to most Americans -- is paramount.
Huey Long, the famously corrupt governor of Louisiana long ago, said that voters in his state "one of these days are going to get good government -- and they aren't going to like it." Well, that day has yet to come, in Louisiana or the 2012 election
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This is another thing that has to be stopped.
They aint giving up millions for nothing.
And we wonder who really controls America.
It aint us.
Elections 2012, Campaign Finance, Elections 2012, Video, Bob Perry, Harold Simmons, Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Super PACs, Biggest Super PAC Donors, Super Pac, Super Pac Contributors, Super Pac Donors, Super Pac Donors 2012, Top Super PAC Donors, Unions Campaign Spending, Politics News
.
Sheldon Adelson, the highest-spending super PAC donor, has interests in China, Las Vegas and Israel.
WASHINGTON -? Heed their names for they are the country's new power brokers: Sheldon Adelson, David and Charles Koch, Harold Simmons, and Bob Perry, among others. Along with similarly wealthy individuals and groups, they're pouring unprecedented sums into the 2012 election -- tens, perhaps even hundreds, of millions of dollars.
When asked why, they prefer to offer lofty motives. The billionaire Koch brothers speak about libertarianism and the need to save free enterprise. Casino magnate Adelson talks in equally apocalyptic terms about preserving the security and Jewish identity of Israel. Institutions such as the AFL-CIO and the National Education Association tend to stress liberal agenda items such as expanded health care and progressive taxation.
Some super donors say they want to level the playing field in the interest of a fair fight. Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks, President Barack Obama's most influential ally in Hollywood, has said that his goal is to blunt the efforts of Republican strategist Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and other hard-core conservatives to run away with the election.
But all these super donors have other goals that are less high-minded and more specific. Simply put, they want the federal government to do something or to stop doing something. For their money, they want results that will help their bottom line, their industry or their members.
"When people contribute to political action committees," then-Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) said in 1983, "they expect something in return other than good government." And the money back then was trifling, and the rules back then were strict. Now it's anything goes.
So what do the big boys want? What do they really, really want? The Huffington Post looked behind the rhetoric for the potential policy payoffs -- there's truly no other word for it -- sought by 15 individual and institutional super donors in the 2012 campaign.
With the Koch brothers, for example, the motivation has less to do with libertarian ideology than with the fact that many of their industrial and mining companies are environmentally invasive -- to put it mildly. They expect a Republican administration and Congress, if they can buy one, to abolish laws, regulations and regulatory bureaucracies that interfere with their business.
For Adelson, the real close-to-home issue isn't in the Middle East; it's in the Far East -- and in Washington, D.C. Federal investigators are examining whether Adelson's company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering large payments to officials in Macau, where it has a major casino operation. Adelson would like an administration more likely to see his side of that story.
As for the AFL-CIO and the teachers' union, their goal is to preserve collective bargaining rights and union prerogatives at a time when membership has declined in all but public employee unions. Indeed, the main goal is to preserve public employees' collective bargaining rights and benefits, which are under attack at the state level. For these institutions, the identity of the president who has the power to nominate members of the National Labor Relations Board -- an obscure agency to most Americans -- is paramount.
Huey Long, the famously corrupt governor of Louisiana long ago, said that voters in his state "one of these days are going to get good government -- and they aren't going to like it." Well, that day has yet to come, in Louisiana or the 2012 election
................................................................
This is another thing that has to be stopped.
They aint giving up millions for nothing.
And we wonder who really controls America.
It aint us.
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