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Thread #133272   Message #3023536
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
04-Nov-10 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Democrats Outspend GOP in TV Ads for House
Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Outspend GOP in TV Ads for House
This thread is pretty typical of GOP BS.

>>>And three of the TOP 5 spenders on this election WERE Unions. <<<

I have heard this form exactly one place, good old neutral Bruce.

But even assuming that it is true, I heard that the largest spending by a Union was about 2 million dollars. So lets say we get 6 million from those three unions.

Karl Roves group spent 38 million of secret money.

The American Chamber of Commerce spent 75,000,000 donated to their general fund and spent on ads which could not be traced back to the donors.

Also to imply that Union money was secret money is worse than silly. The Unions are proud of who they support and are quick to say so. They want to show the rank and file that they are getting something for their dues. They also want to get their rank and file to VOTE.

It is companies like BP who want to keep donations secret so that that they can show ads that say how green they are while at the same time running ads to elect de-regulators and pollution friendly legislators. Think of the trouble Target would have avoided if they had secretly rather than openly funded an anti-gay candidate.