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The source of this is apparently an e-mail that’s circulating widely: If you also get a chuckle out of this, that’s a good indication of the truth that lies behind it. ‘Nuf said. Click here for 4 searches of campaign contributions in the Federal Election Commission’s Disclosure Data Search. You might give it a try for your elected official. However, it looks like they’ve got the sponsors’ true identities pretty well buried behind committee names.
Click here to contact your representatives in Washington, D.C.: – Byron |
Posts Tagged ‘Campaign Contributions’
Who’s Calling the Tunes?
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Who Owns Our Congress?
Saturday, May 9th, 2009|
If you’ve never before heard the truth about the corruption of our decision-making in Washington, D.C., then you now have a very clear statement. As widely reported this week, Senator Dick Durbin, disappointed at the defeat of his bill,
“And the banks – hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created – are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.” What more do we need to understand about corporate America calling the shots in our government? The adage is that money is the root of all evil. Well, corporate campaign contributions are the source of the money that buys the election process.There’s really nothing more to explain. Generations ago, Mark Twain observed:
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Today, there is only one party called the Corporatist Party. It has two wings, the Republican Wing and the Democratic Wing. The solution is to ban all contributions to parties and candidates. Until that happens, the corporations will, as Durbin said, “own the place.” Click here to contact your representatives in Washington, D.C.: – Byron |