Posted on 11/08/2013 2:23:03 AM PST by markomalley
Though Democrats have railed against the influence of money in politics after the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, liberals have accounted for 70% of the so-called "dark money" that has been spent this year.
According to Open Secrets, "liberal dark money in 2013 makes up 70 percent of all the dark money spent so far. At this point in 2011, liberal money accounted for less than 6 percent of the dark money spent, and in 2009, the total was a little higher, at 6.5 percent."
Open Secrets describes "dark money organizations" as "501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) nonprofits that don't have to disclose their donors." Democrats have tried unsuccessfully to pass the DISCLOSE Act, which would "require unions, nonprofits and corporate interest groups that spend $10,000 or more during an election cycle to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more."
"Spending by liberal 501(c)(4) groups is already more than $1.7 million so far this cycle," Open Secrets writes. "That's an increase of nearly 6700 percent over the $25,458 spent by liberal dark money groups at this point in the 2012 cycle."
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That’s no surprise. Good people want to be left to themselves and don’t see a profit in being able to manipulate government. It is only the big government liberals who see buying an election as a good investment, between the crony capitalism that gives them a financial return and the pure power over others that gives them an emotional return. We need to get more conservatives involved in politics; we can’t continue hoping that the parasitic welfare class and the petty tyrants in the self-proclaimed ruling class will simply leave us alone.
Therein lies our biggest hurdle.
Many people still do not care what goes on in DC unless it impacts them directly in a very bad way (like Obamacare).
Cronyism and corruption are as irrelevant to these people as the battles inside Apple over what colors to offer on the iPhone 5c.
Meanwhile, our opponents (liberals and many Republicans) are motivated by money and power....the underlying motivators of capitalism.
You know how much the DemoRats are for “open” government.../s
Liberals “dark money” golly gee that sounds racist to me.
Most transparent administration EVER!
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