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GoldieAZ49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:00 AM Original message |
Howard Dean: DNC no longer accepts donations from lobbyists or special interest PACs |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. You're right.... we should be funded by moneyed special interests.... |
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GoldieAZ49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. What 'special interest' groups donate to the DNC? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. They are still perfectly able to pursue their own agendas openly. |
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ErinBerin84 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
2. I think it's just you. |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
3. This sounds like a good thing to me. |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
5. heaven forbid we be the party of the people, not the party of special interests |
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GoldieAZ49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. so special interest groups are not made up of people? |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. no one is preventing the members of these pacs from making individual donations, BUT |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. All contributions are voluntary. I find it hard to believe you're really upset about |
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GoldieAZ49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. I am not upset about it |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Judging from the fact that you're offended by the replacement of special-interest cash with |
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GoldieAZ49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:36 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. no, I am funding my home and family instead of a campaign that chooses to |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 12:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. You are certainly allowed to do that. Nobody is going to claim you are not allowed to do that. |
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crankychatter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. Most PACs are industry and corporation reps... War Profiteers-Energy Transnationals - Megapharms |
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GoldieAZ49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Unions PAC's too? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yeah. We're not picking and choosing which interest groups we think are 'good,' because |
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lligrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
10. Hurray For Dean |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
17. Oh geez. I CHOOSE to send Obama money and forgo other niceties |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
18. Thats some serious spin. |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. I'm dizzy from all that spin |
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Alter Ego (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-27-08 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
21. Silly me--I thought a campaign funded by the PEOPLE |
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