Posts Tagged ‘FEC’

Who’s Calling the Tunes?

Sunday, May 31st, 2009


The source of this is apparently an e-mail that’s circulating widely:

Members of Congress should be required to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their CORPORATE SPONSORS.

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.:
Our Elected Officials. Tell them you would be opposed to continued corporate sponsorship of political candidates.

– Byron