On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:59:13 -0800 (PST), Malibu Skipper
<steambadger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Feb 17, 6:57 pm, Stevie Nichts <nix2nic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> What's wrong with this picture?
>>
>>
---http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/sup...
>>
>> Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic
>> presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign
>> contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study
>> shows.
>>
>> "While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out
>> thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates
>> pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials
>> serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama
>> and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last
>> three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics
>> re****ted today.
>>
>> About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party
>> leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama,
>> though they can change their minds until the convention.
>>
>> Obama's political action committee has doled out more than
>> $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the
>> 81 who had announced their sup****t for Obama, 34 had received
>> donations totaling $228,000.
>>
>> Clinton's political action committee has distributed about
>> $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had
>> announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.
>> ---
>>
>> This gives a new meaning to "democracy in action."
>
>Don't you Republicans believe that money is a form of free speech, and
>that any limitation on any sort of campaign contribution is a heinous
>violation of the first amendment, and that legislators aren't really
>influenced by the contributions they receive? I'm confused...
Oh. That all applies to Stevie's fellow Republicans ONLY...
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