Bribing the Supers

Bribing the Supers

Postby SoldiersMum on 02/16/08, 1:10 am

So, I guess we can see where some of HRC's war chest has gone and is going.  I was wondering all along how she could have collected so much money and it's all gone.  Bet all her money doesn't buy her the election, though.  The Dems aren't going to want to stop Obama's momentum (and yeppers, he's giving money too) and cause a war in the Dem Party, but she's going to try to steal it anyway.  Too bad African-Americans cannot see the Dems for who and what they are..racists and bigots who only want their votes.  Now, they are second tier losers in the Dem Party as their party panders to the hispanics.  Some people never learn.


  Superdelegates get campaign cash


Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
February 14, 2008 03:54 PM

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 reported 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 support 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.




Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
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Re: Bribing the Supers

Postby Taylor on 02/16/08, 1:16 am

Its legal bribing.
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