Posted on 04/13/2005 7:41:39 AM PDT by KC Burke
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bernard Sanders used campaign donations to pay his wife and stepdaughter more than $150,000 for campaign-related work since 2000, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Jane O'Meara Sanders, his wife, received $91,020 between 2002 and 2004 for "consultation" and for negotiating the purchase of television and radio time-slots for Sanders' advertisements, according to records and interviews.
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it's ok because.....well.....because it's ok
Ping-a-ling.
Maybe this is the start of a backlash against the dem/lib/socialists. They still think that the MSM is the only way we the people get our news. They forget the long arm of the internet and talk radio. More stories such as these are going to come out -- Rush highlighted many of them yesterday. The RATs are going to rue the day they ever made a big deal out of Tom DeLay.
They went all the way back to 1991 to come up with the 500,000 dollar number for Tom Delay.
Let's go back 14 years on all these guys and see what it adds up to.
For Delay it averages only about 17,800 per year for his wife and daughter(?), but it makes sense for him to pay them. The House of Rep's is not able to generate the same cash that a national level campaign is able to generate. They have to hire the most loyal, capable, present people available, and it makes perfect sense to me to hire your own family for your campaign.
I'll bet if they tried to write it off as an expense, Delay would've been accused of avoiding tax by hiding income payments to his family.
Damned if he did; damned if he didn't.
Check out tagline.....Explanation for why "D" are NOT mentioned and "R's" are!
Excuse me, but we're talking about Vermont, not New York city. I live in a county that has a greater population than the entire state of Vermont.
And it isn't over 5 years. It was two separate election campaigns that between labor day and the 1st Tuesday in November --- 10 weeks each or a total of 20 weeks.
And what the hell is there to "negotiate" with political TV commercials? Stations give every candidate the same price per minute, and that price is considerably lower than any commercial advertiser pays. Stations would be in front of the FCC before a 30 second spot was over if they gave time to one candidate for less than they charge another.
RUSH and SEAN and HUGE and GALLAGHER had better keep banging this stuff away until it sinks in that the Dems do the same things and the MSM says nothing. In fact, most Dems engage in ethics that make the Pubs look like choir boys.
Interesting the article doesn't mention Sanders party affiliation ... at least not at the top of the article. That, for any FReeper worth his/her salt is a dead give away ... one can automatically assume Saunders is a 'Rat. However, if Saunders were a Republican he would be identified as such immediately.
RE: Saunders ... make that Sanders.
So what, the little independent commie will obtain a get out of jail free card from the MSM even while they pursue Delay for the same thing.
The pubbies need to drop on this one
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. She needed some new shoes.$91,020 worth of new shoes.
Nobody cares about Sanders because he is an eccentric left wing kook who is not in leadership. Sanders ain't gonna afford any protective cover for DeLay.
It will in the mind of the public. You can't make the case that DeLay can't pay his wife and daughter (the latter actually having a firm that does this for others besides DeLay) but Sanders can. Maybe not official Washington, but this has already gotten to the "dogged by ethics accusations" part of the smear. They've got to find another 2-year-old revelation or it will all peter out.
bttt
For the unofficial yet real standings:
A democrat is a socialist. There is no difference between them whatsoever except that the democrat is in disguise
I'm tired of the "everybody does it!" defense. Hang 'em all.
As perhaps you picked up lower in the thread, Sanders is actually in office as the "Socialist Party" representative. I wasn't kidding when I posted that in my first comment. He caucuses with the Dems and always has done so, as was also pointed out above.
Thanks to all for keeping this going, I was busy through lunch.
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