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.
Definately correct. Libs are one issue voters. I was dating a girl who really wanted to vote for Romney but couldn’t because of Saemus-gate. But she COULD vote for the dog eater in chief. Thats the logic in liberal minds.
True, the loan of almost a trillion that Bush gave to banks was paid and you don’t see a deficit reduction from that.
Where did the money go?
The answer is beyond me but we have to figure this out because the future of our country depends on it.
And don't get me started on the idiot professors at the leftie universities....
Well, there are those that will never understand or learn and there are those that teach those to never understand and continue their beliefs. Both the stupid (not to be confused with the uneducated) and the professors that teach this belong in this class. Unfortunately, you can not change these folks views as either they are ingrained or in the instance of the children, taught. It is an unfortunate side effect of our universities, no diversity except that which enhances their own views. This will not change in the future and will eventually cause a huge backlash.
Today I read a blog that made me so mad I want to spit blood. Professors have tricks they use to look smarter than they really are, and this blog looked at them in detail. The one that makes me so angry is called “gutting” books, where you read just enough so you can pretend that you have read the whole thing, without ‘wasting’ your time on reading the whole thing. What a great way to miss everything important. If I caught my son doing that I would tan his hide. I send him to school to get smart, not to learn how to be stupid and lazy.
Link please? Thanks.
Ah, one who questions the facts - good though as I am sure there is an occasional read that is not up to the established problem described. The difference is that you - one of the questioning folks (usually liberals) hate to confront the truth but eventually you have to...
Spitting blood seems to be a conservative problem at this point in time, tomorrow, it might be your problem.
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