Posted on 09/19/2011 2:13:11 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
The Democratic National Committee claims it has banned contributions from special-interest groups and lobbyists under the leadership of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), an ethical standard she demands that Republicans now follow.
“The refusal to accept donations from federal lobbyists and PACs [political action committees] is critical to limiting the influence of special interests in the political process,” Wasserman Schultz says.
But Democrats aren’t eager to follow the edict. And neither is Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz.
Under her leadership, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was recently forced to return thousands of dollars from a dozen lobbyists after the Center for Responsive Politics caught members with their fund-raising hands in the money jar. In Wasserman Schultz’s own congressional campaign, she raised $760,000 from political action committees, which represents 66% of total contribution to her this cycle.
Meanwhile, millions of dollars in contributions from mega bundlers, some with lobbyist ties, are pouring into the coffers of President Obama’s reelection war chest.
Some of those 244 bundlers, who collect a minimum $50,000 each, include Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and 40 others who received government appointments after Obama’s election, according to the Center for Public Integrity. “All that bundling muscle was instrumental in the ability of the Obama campaign and the DNC to collectively raise $86 million in the second quarter,” the Center for Public Integrity said in a July report.
Doug Heye, a political consultant and former communications director for the Republican National Committee, says Wasserman Schultz is creating artificial standards, and allowing her over-the-top rhetoric to box her in.
“It’s the classic definition of ‘Do what I say, not as I do,’ ” Heye said.
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She’s a bald faced liar. LIAR.
She is the female Alan Grayson.
She’s a bald faced liar. LIAR.
She is the female Alan Grayson.
The “dog” part is accurate.
So Debbie, you will turn down all donations from the teachers union, the auto union, the service employees union and the teamsters correct??
The Democrats will no longer accept contributions from special interest groups? Really?
Does that include Hollywood? No.
Does that include the homosexual lobby? Of course not.
Does that include the unions, the largest special interest group in the nation? Hell,no!
Better watch that nose of yours Deb.
Has she banned donations and in-kind works from 501 3C’s? Has she banned donations from CAIR? Has she banned donations from ACLU, NAACP, ACORN, Moveon.Org, MSM and all the others? Debbie, F.O! BTW, your ‘perm’ sucks - it looks skank nasty! Do you ever wash it?
And just wait till she has to face Karen Harrington in a debate or forum before the voters in district 20!
DWS makes Howard Dean has the talent of making look sane.
DWS has the talent of making Howard Dean look sane.
My apologies to the forum.
Skank!.................................Skank Nasty!!
Gots to come up with some sort of hip word for this.....skanknizzle?
You owe me a new keyboard unless you know a way to clean out the combination of coffee, boogers and snot.
Wasserman Schultz is creating artificial standards, and allowing her over-the-top rhetoric to box her in.
Not hardly, but they’ll expect the repubs to follow
their standard.
God, I’m sick of democrats.
puerile posturing by a scumbag
GREAT PORTRAIT SHOTS of a True Nasty Skank! W.C. Fields said it best! “You can never sink low enough for your audience!” I never believed America could sink low enough for the Demorat Party to have the present leadership of such Thugs, Criminals and outright Skanks!
LOL! She comes across as the ex-wife from hell.
Man she is so ugly that even with dog food smeared all over her the dogs still ran away i fright.
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