Demonrats cash in on Jeffords' betrayal

[The_RANDy_Corporation]

Money follows power.

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Senate Takeover Spells Big Donor Bucks for Prominent Democrats
By Sharon Theimer Associated Press Writer
Published: Aug 3, 2001

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats cashed in quickly on their new power, taking in hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors within days of taking over the chamber.
In June, Tom Harkin of Iowa raised nearly half the money his campaign has collected this year as farm interests flooded him with donations during his first month as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, new Federal Election Commission reports show.

Two senators with possible presidential aspirations experienced similar good fortune.

John Edwards of North Carolina raised more in June than in the five previous months combined. Massachusetts' John Kerry collected $1.1 million after taking over the Senate Small Business Committee.

Democrats were energized by the party's new ability to set the Senate agenda, and the contributions "reflected a desire to keep it that way after 2002," said David Wade, a spokesman for Kerry.

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle rose to his new perch when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party in late May and broke a 50-50 tie.

Daschle's political action committee was an immediate big winner.

More than half the $1.1 million DASHPAC has raised this year came in June. Daschle's PAC raised only $602,250 during the first six months of 1999, the last nonelection year when Democrats were still in the minority.

The sudden influx of donations indicates "once the power shifts, so does the money," campaign finance expert Larry Makinson said. . . .

AP (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAD7M1EYPC.html)

[Maggie_T]

Lovely. Just what we needed. images/icons/rolleyes.gif

[Westbrook]

Something to cheer you all up ...

With apologies to Peter, Paul and Mary ...

Chorus:
Puff the statist Dashle, lived by the sea,
And wallowed in the graft and bribes in a land they call DC,
Little Jimmie Jeffords, loved that rascal Puff,
And brought him girls and porno mags and lots of cocaine snuff.

Together they would caucus, in a room with demon rats,
Jimmie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic lap,
Noble kings and princes, would bow whene'er they came,
Republicans would drop their trow when Puff roared out his name.

One gray night it happened, Jimmie Jeffords lost his seat,
Farmers, moms, and working stiffs were tired of being meat,
They swarmed the polls in numbers, too great to overcome,
So puff the statist Dachle became a useless bum.

His head was bent in sorrow, his hair fell out like rain,
Dancing girls and porno mags could not his sadness tame,
His buddies Ted and Hillwitch, left him in disgrace,
And soon his home state voters, made him lose his place.

[Warlady]

Republicans are still out-raising Dems.

[DesertFox]

Cute ditty, Westy. Somehow my mind kept filling with visions of dragons in a faraway sick fairy (sic) land.

[PaulRevere]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warlady:
Republicans are still out-raising Dems.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Does that statement include the hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars that supplement partisan leftist organizations that claim non-partisan AND tax-exempt status? Does that include grants given to enviro-whacko organizations who turn around and sue federal agencies to "save wildlife" - who scare people with their pseudo-science and then buy TV ads against ANWAR? Tell me about the last time a right-wing organization did that. Name ONE time (and the NRA defending the 2nd Amendment does not count). Does that include all the soft-money (including Denise Rich type of fundraisers), including every leftist cause that does not go into the coffers of leftist politicians?

Don't look now, but the leftists are much better organized, funded, and they have the leadership schooled in the nazi propaganda - type of missinformation that is blinding too many complacent Americans who listen to Brokaw's "Home of the Brave" stories each night and imagine we are still that way.

[DesertFox]

Excellent points, PaulRevere.

[Warlady]

True PR, I should have said "legally".

[**DONOTDELETE**]

It does not matter, with Bush in the WH and Conman in the House Demoncraps are toast, TOAST, did you hear me? They are TOAST.

Bush beats them at every move, EVERY move.

Then you have re-apportionment in many Republican-controlled states.

HaHaHaHaHA

And election reforms in the states that create the most illegal votes.

The demoncraps are Toast, TOAST. These next few years are going to be so much fun.

[DesertFox]

I just hope you're right, One.

[PaulRevere]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by One small Voice:

Bush beats them at every move, EVERY move.
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He's made a few compromises that I can mostly live with. His education bill was a sellout.

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Then you have re-apportionment in many Republican-controlled states.

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Even in Libiot-infested Oregon, the state legislature is run by the Republicans, and so they had the right or re-apportionment. So what did the Democrats do? They said the Republicans were being "Unconstitutional" and went home - literally. No one ever explained HOW this was unconstitutional.

You know typical Democrats - they simply make an accusation and the sheeple accept it as fact.

You know the typical Republicans - ineffectual or NO response to Democrat lies.

The Republicans threatened to round them up with state troopers if they didn't get their asses back to the Legislature. They did, but it was too late. The Democrats knew that if they stalled long enough, the legislature would recess and the Republicans would be out of time, by law, to reapportion. Then the Sec. of State, who is a Democrat, would, by law, take over the job of reapportionment. It's not the first time they have pulled such a move in this country(I think the last time Oregon politicians had an original idea was the 5-cent bottle return bill in the 1970s - and that idea died of loneliness).

So what's the Democrat Sec. of State want to do - gerrymander out a state seat that is 40% Mexican.

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