I was reading this Editorial in the NYT
Attention, parents of political candidates. There is now a way to spend an unlimited amount on your child’s campaign for Congress, completely ignoring that annoying $2,600 legal limit on what you can give. All you do is set up a “super PAC” for your kid and start writing checks. It’s not much harder than that 529 account you used for the same kid’s college education.
Hmmm....OK
Mr. Rothblatt, trying to maintain the veneer of independence required by the law, told USA Today that he had no idea that the super PAC was working on his behalf until he saw some of its yard signs with his name. The issue simply has not come up in family conversations, he said. “You don’t want to, in a casual conversation, cross a line that can turn around and bite you,” he said.
Pause to clean my monitor.....OK
Sorry, but that’s preposterous
Yes, I couldn't agree more....
“It is the norm this cycle,” he told The Washington Post recently. “Anybody giving advice to campaigns that did not recommend super PACs as part of the strategy mix would be committing political malpractice.
Yes, indeedy because you have to buy that democracy thingy dontcha know...
But the more members of Congress depend on these groups, the less chance they will want to put a stop to them.
That is why dear Kossacks that income inequality will flourish. That is why campaign finance reform will never happen.
It is beyond a fucking joke.
Democracy, but that is preposterous.
Ha fucking ha.