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echo: pol_disorder
to: Jeff Binkley
from: Ross Sauer
date: 2010-01-24 12:00:34
subject: Political contributions

"Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett"  wrote in news:14846
$POL_DISORDER{at}JamNNTPd:

 EH>> The interesting thing is how Obama pledged to give a "forceful
 EH>> response" to this ruling and claiming how this allows special
 EH>> interests to "drown out the voices of the people." In
light of his
 EH>> choosing to be the first major candidate to forgo matching public
 EH>> funds last year and the majority of his contributors being lawyers
 EH>> and law firms and other special interests, it's a bit of hubris on
 EH>> his part to condemn this SC ruling.

 JB> I am fine with folks contributing to political campaigns, what I want to
 JB> see is full disclosure.  What we have now are folks funneling money
 JB> through shadow organizations, people lying on donation forms and many
 JB> more similar activities.  That is what needs to get cleaned up.

Are you sitting down?
I agree.



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