Posted on 09/17/2011 6:03:51 AM PDT by xzins
| Contributor | Total | Indivs | PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Club for Growth | $92,630 | $92,630 | $0 |
| TCF Financial | $48,700 | $34,700 | $14,000 |
| Hubbard Broadcasting | $44,000 | $44,000 | $0 |
| Target Corp | $43,150 | $38,150 | $5,000 |
| Susan B Anthony List | $38,708 | $17,500 | $21,208 |
| Starkey Laboratories | $37,800 | $37,800 | $0 |
| Slumberland | $34,450 | $34,450 | $0 |
| Deloitte LLP | $32,750 | $13,750 | $19,000 |
| Dart Transit | $31,900 | $31,900 | $0 |
| American Crystal Sugar | $30,000 | $0 | $30,000 |
| Freedom Club of America | $30,000 | $0 | $30,000 |
| Crown Iron Works | $26,850 | $26,850 | $0 |
| Bernicks Pepsi | $26,050 | $26,050 | $0 |
| Eagle Forum | $26,000 | $0 | $26,000 |
| AT&T Inc | $25,050 | $5,550 | $19,500 |
| Associated Builders & Contractors | $25,000 | $0 | $25,000 |
| Every Republican is Crucial PAC | $25,000 | $0 | $25,000 |
| Koch Industries | $25,000 | $0 | $25,000 |
| Primera Technology | $24,900 | $24,900 | $0 |
| Honeywell International | $24,550 | $5,550 | $19,000 |
(Excerpt) Read more at opensecrets.org ...
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I wonder if any of her contributors benefit via her smearing of Perry/Merck re: “injections”.
Are any of those companies direct competitors of Merck?
Contribution dates would be helpful, but the good news is that these are pretty clean outfits. The average Demo-communist contributors on the other side of the isle have questionable funding sources. The truth about who financed Barry is a State Secret.
Ahhhh, the money...the old “I am not for sale, but you are...”...raises the same red flag for me as Obama’s 2007...I AM ABOVE POLITICS AS USUAL....just like the child that raided the cookie jar and then pointed at his brother...
That is a very clean contributor list. I would not have expected anything else. I respect and like Bachmann, who has done an outstanding job in Congress. She has, however, jumped the shark with her presidential campaign. It’s time to throw in the towel and work to strengthen party unity rather than rip it apart. She has taken the “Perrycare” allegations waaaaaaaay to far.
A legislator doesn’t make executive decisions, so their activities are not as apparent.
Does one consider it “cronyism”, for example, if votes for issues favored by Eagle Forum are registered by the legislator?
Personally, I like Eagle Forum, but that isn’t really the question. The question is: “Can a legislator use the voting process to hide their cronyism?”
Somebody wake up DU and the Daily POS and Huffington-Puffington and tell them to run around in circles screaming and frothing at the mouth.
When they've finished their second breakfast joint, that is.
Cheers!
...and made it mandatory in order to get the Feds to pay for it.
Cheers!
she can’t issue an executive order. she’s just a legislator. She doesn’t have that experience, and she doesn’t have that exposure.
As a legislator she’s permitted to play the shell game with her votes.
Oh, don’t worry, I will...I’ve been tracking her since she voted against an amendment to strike $355 BILLION of discretionary spending off the first stimulus bill in 2009 and helped kill republicans attempt to stop it...seems like maybe AT&T got some of those stimulus funds to expand broadband service, come to think of it.
One question that would need to be answered is whether the contributions followed the vote or whether the vote follows the contribution. The second question would be whether the vote was inconsistent with the legislator’s political philosophy.
Regardless the fact of the matter is that money is the lifeblood of politics. It always has been and always will be.
One of the best lines about this process was stated by the infamous Willy Brown who said that if you can’t take money from someone and then screw them, you got no business being in the business.
Truer words were never spoken.
Her vote is but one of over 400 in the House.
Unlike an EO from a governor.
Cheers!
Does one consider it “cronyism”, for example, if votes for issues favored by Eagle Forum are registered by the legislator?
Actually, we don’t know if she did or did not play favorites. She does have some donors who’ve contributed far more than the 5000 she complained that Perry received.
Can you say “Flint Hills Resources” ?
But unlike the EO from a governor, a vote from a congressman affects all 300 million Americans, not just the residents of a single state.
The fact of the matter is that every politician takes money from people who they don't like or that they don't care about.
An honest politician is like an honest prostitute. You take their money and then you screw them.
Prostitute —> take money —> screw
That’s the proper, intended way to read the sentence in question.
The politician (prostitute) takes the money from the contributor (the john) and then screws them (as in "screws them").
IOW they don't give them any special consideration.
Get it?
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