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And here's to hoping that trend will continue.

 

Everything you need to know about the current American political practice, summed up in one neat line:

 

Which trend if I may ask?


I feel you A-Rod - don't want to lose the tax cut coming your way if Bush stays. You could really use the extra emmmmm.........$2.7M tax cut for extra curricular activities.


It is a Win-Win situation for Trumpy. Why choose sides when you don't have to.

Ben Lopezd - Kucinich? Gigli!

Karl Malone - no surprise there.

Charles Barkley (who intends to "run" for Governor of Alabam (?) someday AS A REPUBLICAN) - big surprise.

Karl Rove - Job security. no news there.

Bill Gates - no surprise (rooting for the only party and president that stood [and still standing] by them during the anti-trust debacle).

Mary Cheney - only $850? Don't want to draw attention to the big Harliburton "payoffs"? Common you can do better.

 

Consider this...

Bush is currently spending about $8 million a week on advertising plus he's already put $50 million into ground organization trying to compete with the Dems on voter turnout... and looking at the state-by-state polls, he would lose tomorrow by about 100 electoral votes.

Assuming he buys advertising at a similar clip and has to continue to pump money into the ground organizations, just between now and the end of July he'll spend well over $100 million.

My suspicion is that if at that point he's not looking like a lock and the Dems are looking competitive in at least one of the houses, the money starts to dry up... folks willing to plop down $2000 at that point will have already contributed. I don't think it's an absolute certainty that Bush carrries his money advantage into the September/October timeframe. On the other hand, I am certain that there is a bunch of soft money out there at their disposal whenever they need it.

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Welcome back Tree... where are you?

 

bamaslammer needs to change his sig. How dare he promote the work of a commie pinko baby killer?

 

I'm very glad places like opensecrets.org exist. For a long time, the information was available but a real pain in the ass to get. This makes it a lot easier to see just who and what people are spending their money on politically.

 

Man - that's a ton of money.

These bribes really need to be banned.

 

Amen. I couldn't care less who Charles Barkley or Maury Povich is supporting, but having access to information like that is a great idea.

Eliminating these bribes would be better, of course.

 

I so hope that scenario plays out. Justice would prevail.

 

Of course it doesnt matter who celebrities give moeny, but its still fun to see who gave what...

Charlize Theron - $1000 Kerry
Don King - $2000 Bush
Stephen King - $2000 Dean
Troy Aikman - $2000 Bush
Harvey WEinstein - $2000 Kerry
Jerry Seinfeld - $2000 Kerry
Brad Whitford (WEst Wing) $8000 evenly divided between Kerry, Clark, Dean, and Edwards
Johnnie Cochran - 2 g's for Sharpton and Edwards
Greg Popovich - $2000 Edwards
John Mellencamp - $2000
Randy Newman - $2000 John Kerry
Sean Combs - $2000 Sharpton

 

I meant " give money to".... But I'm dumb either way because I put " Puff Daddy" before i realized that wasnt a real name he would use.

 

Bill Walton - $2,000 to John Edwards
Jerry Springer - $2,000 to Dennis Kucinich
Al Michaels - $2,000 to George W. Bush
George Steinbrenner - $2,000 to Bob Graham

 

I figured Walton for a Dennis K kind of guy.

 

Me, too, but strangely enough I didn't see many Waltons from Arkansas ponying up money for the Democrats.

 

I searched my zip code and found a woman who contributed under TWO NAMES, for example:

Betty Smith $2,000

Betty Smith-Johnson $2,000

Same address... same candidate

There's some cheaters out there.

edit:

Found another one where COLLEGE STUDENTS contributed $2000! I don't know about you guys, but when I was in college I never had $2,000, much less and EXTRA two grand to be giving to a political campaign. Oh, wait, this explains it. Each was from the same address, as was another $2,000 from their mother and father... technically not illegal, but shady just the same.