Democracy Now: Hillary got more money from weapons manufacturers

[Hieronymus]

than any Democratic candidate.

[AtomicKitten]

1. On the other side of that coin -

Obama is second to only Ron Paul for getting $$$ from those in the military.

[Ken Burch]

2. By "those in the military" do you mean active-duty personnel?

Are they actually allowed to donate to partisan political candidates?

[AtomicKitten]

5. here's a link

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/14/war-critics-obama-ron-pa_n_64417.html

[Ken Burch]

16. Thanks.

Apparently they are allowed to make such contributions.

[MethuenProgressive]

3. Dupe - on Greatest Page 3x - and False, by the way

She got a mere 50K from defense industry *workers* and Obama got more from them than any Republican did.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2089629

[AtomicKitten]

13. You are conflating the two.

Hillary raked in the dough - $50K to Obama's $10K - from weapons manufacturers; you are conflating donations from the workers where Obama scores with those from the weapons manufacturer industry corporations where Hillary scores.

[Honeycombe8]

4. So? What is that supposed to infer? That she'll start a war to pay them back?

I'm not a Hillary supporter, but that's ludicrous.

All this criticism about who is contributing to this or that candidate. They need money. Lots of it. People and companies donate it. I care if it's ins. cos. or big pharma, because they have powerful lobbies and have harmed our country in recent decades. Otherwise, live and let live.

[babylonsister]

6. Well, Rockefeller's paying it back:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2094787

You don't think stuff like this happens?

[Hieronymus]

17. Here is another article from the Huffington Post. It does bother me

when a candidate is taking money from arms manufacturers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/17/defense-industry-embraces_n_68927.html

The defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all her competitors.

An examination of contributions of $500 or more, using the Huffington Post's Fundrace website, shows that employees of the top five arms makers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics -- gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to Republicans.

Senator Clinton took in $52,600, more than half of the total going to all Democrats, and a figure equaling 60 percent of the sum going to the entire GOP field. Her closest competitor for defense industry money is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R.), who raised $32,000. <more>

[Froward69]

7. Clearly Hillary is

The Republicans' Big Industry, Big Insurances' First choice. Same old, sameold Diffrent gender.

[Rhythm and Blue]

8. She got 50k from employees of those firms. Obama received more than any Republican. Knock it off.

Edit: This is actually a lie. I misremembered the figures re: Obama; he only took in $10,000, which is far less than Romney's $30,000. I apologize.

[AtomicKitten]

9. * edited - thanks for the correction (below)

[Rhythm and Blue]

11. dupe delete

[Rhythm and Blue]

12. No, that's not true.

Clinton got $50,000 from the employees of weapons manufacturers. Obama got $10k from them. Obama, however, does far outpace her (and all viable Republicans) in donations from members of the military; apparently in a brainfreeze I conflated the two. I apologize for my incorrect characterization earlier.

[fenriswolf]

10. hay dont vote hillary or obama then

the kucinich camp would love you guys and he doesnt accept money from lobbyists.

[SaveElmer]

14. Do you believe it is immoral to work for Northrop Grumman?

eom

[LoZoccolo]

15. That is interesting, because neither weapons manufacturers, nor any corporation...

...can donate to a political candidate.