What, are you claiming that Mit isn't different than Obama?!
Yeah, Romney was confirmation to me that the Republican-party's all talk and has no intention of ever pursuing its stated party planks.
Posted on 12/29/2013 9:22:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Minneapolis Star Tribune investigates independent political spending over the last few election cycles. The results are stark, but won’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention:
A Star Tribune analysis of campaign finance records found that just three dozen individuals or entities have contributed more than $27 million to political action and independent expenditure committees over the past three election cycles. The analysis shows those donations heavily favored Democrats. Unless that trend is reversed, Republicans could find themselves at a disadvantage heading into the 2014 elections….
No kidding.
One union — the powerful Education Minnesota teachers union — poured $4.8 million into election efforts, nearly all of it benefiting Democrats. Alida Messinger, a longtime DFL contributor and former wife of Gov. Mark Dayton, donated at least $1.6 million to Democratic political action committees. …
Since 2007, Democrats and their supporters consistently raised and distributed more money than their opponents. Even with the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allowed businesses to give money directly to political action committees, business interests and Republicans have not kept up. …
In the last six years, union contributions dominated donations to state political action committees. State and national unions spent $17 million in Minnesota between 2007 and 2012. Businesses, newly empowered to spend after the Citizens United decision, directly donated about $3 million.
The Strib identifies a handful of major contributors that account for more than half of all independent expenditures in Minnesota. It says that the big money “heavily favor[s]” the Democrats, but never reports the exact totals. Still, from the numbers the paper does report, the conclusion is obvious. The situation is getting worse, too, as Democratic money dominated the 2012 election even more than prior cycles.
Minnesota might be an extreme case, but there is no doubt that the Democrats’ alliance of unions and rich people will put Republicans, the party of the middle class, at a financial disadvantage for the foreseeable future.
I missed the pooch...sorry!
True, but of course that will be an election too late! Our downfall is occurring very quickly these days and it will not be long before things are out of control.
No problem, the GOP will salvage the situation and declare that we are an open border country and all are welcome! The Democrats will oppose this of course and declare that all are citizens by default! Winner take all!
Probably too late to salvage the rest of society though.
I think this is a propaganda article. In September we heard the DNC is broke.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/30/fortune-the-dnc-is-nearly-broke/
What, are you claiming that Mit isn't different than Obama?!
Yeah, Romney was confirmation to me that the Republican-party's all talk and has no intention of ever pursuing its stated party planks.
There is whole lot of folks waiting for “something else” to donate to.
Something else.....
I think the GOP is dead and this election is not going to go well unless there is an alternative.
Just an observation of the national mood
and a hint to those who I hope have some good game plans.
Damn tired of waiting.
Saw that coming. Lol.
Please do not send money to general RNC / GOP groups and PACs, as they just use your hard earned money to push their RINOs. Find your conservative candidates and send money directly to their campaigns.
The DNC is still millions in debt from the last election.
Wiki:
Alida Rockefeller Messinger
Alida Ferry Rockefeller (born 1948) is an American philanthropist. She is the youngest daughter of John Davison Rockefeller III (1906—1978) and Blanchette Ferry Hooker (1909—1992), and a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family. Her brother is Senator John Davison “Jay” Rockefeller IV (born 1937).
....if you don’t think some of our tax dollars are not funneled into these donations then your not paying attention.
All the failed “green” giveaways had strings.
Respectfully, montanajoe, the real trick is getting clean elections.
First election had government unions alone donation 400 million to keep their cash cow going on our back. A pox on these punks.
I’d bet a lot of the TARP and stimulus money (that seems to have disappeared) was funneled back to the LIBs/DIMs. Criminals all.
America is in it’s DYING DAYS......the left have DESTROYED it......can’t put the Abortion, Gay crap toothpaste back in the tube....we’ve crossed the Rubicon, Sadly.
“All the money in the world will not persuade someone whose life is ruined by ObamaCare to vote Democrat.”
A liberal doctor told me that he would never vote Republican because of their stand on “women’s health” (abortion) no matter how bad Democrats other policies where. I’d say most Democrats are one issue voters. The issue varies depending on the their demographic. They are 40% of the populace. Republicans are another 40%. All elections are to convince the 11% in the middle to vote for your side.
I received a thank you letter from Dan Bongino, signed in his own hand. A first!. Only individual candidates for me...no matter what state they are in.
It takes a lot of money to buy elections and those who count the votes.
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