"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." (Thomas Jefferson)
Since billionaires are financing his campaign, why have I one of the little people gotten five fundraising letters from the Mitt Romney campaign asking for donations? At least he is keeping the post office afloat. RNC was in addition to the five in the last two days. They are both getting the same -- zero, zip, nada. Both Obama and Romney are reaching out to Wall Street and K Street -- some day those billionaires are going to want payback. Nice to have two candidates who have sold out to the people on Wall Street that caused all the problems but then Romney is one of them and Obama uses them. Although when you look at the figures it seems Romney has raised about four times as much as Obama ($2.48M to $625K) since the hedge fund and other venture capitalist have flocked to Romney. Are they looking for a sweetheart deal if he was elected? You can bank on that one and this quote from the article nails what is happening IMO.
“It’s not surprising that the people who profited the most from the economic crisis want to elect Mitt Romney.”
Looks like the Romney money bomb is failing as he has not even reached half of his goal of $2.5M as of last night but only has a little over $800,000. Mormon Church needs to get busy and tell their members to anti up for one of their own like they have been doing with their votes as now their hero needs contributions. Robocalls for money is not going to work with conservatives no matter how much the RNC Chair Priebus says we are coming on board. I am still looking for the ones who are going to Romney and swallowing the Romney koolaid. On conservative websites non-Romney supporters are still being attacked by the same people who have been attacking for months and still not working. In fact being bullies is backfiring in a lot of instances.
Telling us that he is not in the hip pocket of Wall Street is a bad joke as now it is out in public that he held a huge fundraiser with a bunch of white guys for a Wall Street Hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson. Imagine that looking out your window and seeing a bunch of white guys. With only around 35% of the Republican vote in the primaries until Santorum dropped out, the RNC is whistling Dixie if they think that 65% of conservatives are going to come on board for Romney. That is not happening.
As I have told the fundraisers who call, ask Romney for the money to fund his campaign or his Wall Street/KStreet buddies. I have a budget to meet and that does not include funding the campaign of a multi-millionaire who keeps part of his assets off shore.
The Republican candidate has accepted donations from controversial hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, but Thursday night he made their association more explicit by allowing Paulson to host a fundraiser, Ben Jacobs reports.
Mitt Romney held a high-dollar fundraiser Thursday night at the home of John Paulson, the controversial hedge-fund billionaire who made a fortune shorting the housing market and subprime mortgages in 2007.
Controversial hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson (right) held a fundraiser for Republican candidate Mitt Romney (left) in his Manhattan townhouse, Getty Images
New York grocery billionaire John Catsimatidis told The Daily Beast the fundraiser, at Paulson’s posh townhouse at 9 East 86th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, was a “big-dollar event” for wealthy donors like himself “fighting for the soul of America.” The Romney campaign did not return requests for information about the fundraiser—which was not listed on the candidate’s public schedule. Paulson’s publicist, Armel Leslie, also did not return calls seeking comment.
A neighbor who witnessed the event from across the street described it to The Daily Beast as a large crowd of “older white people, mostly men,” who started showing up around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Around 8 p.m., sirens started blaring as more and more people started to show. There was security at the door as well as a police car on the street.
Then things became quiet until the sirens started up at 9:30 p.m. An SUV tried to block 86th Street, but New York drivers characteristically went around it. Then, as the security stood in the street, Romney emerged from the townhouse, “looking tall and neat.” He took off his suit jacket and climbed into the SUV.
The event marks a rather controversial departure for the Romney campaign. Although both Romney and his super PAC have accepted donations from Paulson, this ratchets up the association between the presumptive GOP nominee and the controversial Wall Street billionaire. Lis Smith, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, did take advantage of the connection to take a whack at Romney, stating, “It’s not surprising that the people who profited the most from the economic crisis want to elect Mitt Romney. Then again, Paulson is a nice checkbook to get to know in gearing up for a fierce battle this fall. According to the latest numbers from The Center for Responsive Politics, Romney has out-raised President Obama by a four to one margin among donors in hedge funds and private equity. Romney's campaign has raised $2.48 million in this industry while Obama has collected just under $625,000. He would bring back the failed policies—tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and letting Wall Street write its own rules—that created it in the first place.”
Until Election Day, Romney and Obama will each try to hang the unpopularity of Wall Street on the other—Obama, by attacking Romney as a “vulture capitalist,” just as Rick Perry and Romney will go after Obama on “bailouts.” It’s unclear whether this attack will stick to either one, but by holding a fundraiser at Paulson’s townhouse, Romney made it that much easier for Obama.
Those words, incompetence and mismanagement, could be used to describe the Republican Primary from the beginning when the new chair was more interested in what was happening in the Wisconsin recall elections then the RNC. Then Chairman Preibus and his consultants got the bright idea that debates were the way to go with liberal moderators but then it favored Romney at the beginning which is what the handpicked Establishment Chair of the RNC wanted. Wonder how they like the primary now as more and more conservatives are saying 'none of the above.'
As the request for donations and presence at campaign events hit the mailbox, noticed that the amount required to attend events has been on the rise starting in 2008 but even then there were events you could attend for $50 but now the events starting out a $1,000 leaves out most people out. The day I donate $1,000 to a candidate with one check, someone needs to check my sanity no matter who the candidate or organization. Since the Citizens United ruling the people hosting these fundraisers are only going for big donors many of them who have already closed their checkbooks due to the way the RNC and others are running this primary.
We have a few fundraisers here who believes it is more important to fill up a room then have everyone make the big donations. It adds a lot more to a campaign then to have to admit no one was donating so the event was cancelled.
We filled up an event in Norman for Dr. Coburn in 2004 that you could not walk in the room without bumping into someone. The person in charge of fundraising asked two of us for help in getting people to the event even if they didn't donate. We not only packed the room but donations were much more than expected. We had no minimum as we knew we had some big donors but we needed people to give Dr. Coburn a boost right before the election. Taught me a lesson that it is more important fill a room with a group of small donors and a few big donors because everyone opened their checkbook that evening as they got caught up in the excitement. But what do we know as Super PACs have taken over.
This is an example of what requiring a $1,000 will do to your event -- get it cancelled.
But the lack of attendance isn’t because Gingrich isn’t popular, it’s because the event cost too much and the attendance is way too low, with the lowest tickets fetching a $1,000 a head. Sponsors who spoke with our team in the field said that promoters had misled them as to the number of tickets sold, telling them on the phone that more than 2,000 tickets had been. The event, in other words, was a total flop. There were barely a few dozen people in the huge College of Charleston arena.
Part of the problem was the organization for the event. A source we spoke to told us that the promoters didn’t even have an agenda until the event was underway and that nobody was there to greet people. “There wasn’t even anyone there to tell us whether to go to have our events,” the source said. “I would be ashamed if my name were associated with it.”
Below the sponsors pack it up because of lack of interest.
The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.
The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.
The confirmation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third-party groups that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.
NOTE: This group cut a deal with the Department of Treasury to handle correspondence for federal agencies in 2007 after Paulson was named the Treasury Secretary in the summer of 2006. It looks like until Paulson was named, there was no push for GovDelivery.com to handle federal correspondence that I can find. If they do go back to 2004 with Obama as alleged on several sites, it lends credibility to the fact the Dems controlled Paulson and he undercut McCain for Obama which IMO makes sense. All of us that have been receiving odd emails from Dem organizations and the White House IMO need to look no further then GovDelivery.com. Why is the Federal Government wasting our tax dollars to spam us?
Did Gov Delivery.com really buy an expensive box as the Coronation of Obama?
Federal Consulting Group and GovDelivery Partner to Improve Government-to- Citizen CommunicationsMonday, July 30th, 2007
WASHINGTON and SAINT PAUL, Minn., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Government agencies looking for more efficient ways to share information with the public can now utilize GovDelivery’s industry-leading public communication solution as part of the Federal Consulting Group’s suite of services, according to a partnership announced today by FCG and GovDelivery.As part of the agreement, FCG, a franchise of the U.S. Department of Treasury, will offer GovDelivery’s Email and Digital Subscription Management solution to its Federal customers. GovDelivery, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., is the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen digital communications. “FCG and GovDelivery share a mission: to help agencies communicate more quickly and effectively with their public audiences. http://www.egovnews.org/?m=200707
Arrogance of NRA is simply stunning - for an organization who used to be about gun safety now the bottom line for gun/ammo manufacturers trumps all as the NRA lobbies for them.
According to Think Progress, “NRA: Practice Range” is billed as a “network of news, laws, facts, knowledge, safety tips, educational materials and online resource” for the organization.The National Rifle Association released a new app on Sunday that includes a gun range equipped with coffin-shaped targets, and the option for players to simulate using a military-grade sniper rifle.
The app includes what it calls “9 true to life firearms,” and allows players to download an MK-11 sniper rifle setting for 99 cents. The rifle can shoot 750 rounds per minute.
Dems/GOP Fighting -- Will they Finally Work Together for the Country? Will replace this image when they do. (11/07/2012)
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"We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true. No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society, but that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this." President Barack Obama, Newtown, CT, 12/16/2012
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"I don't think that the way to correct a spin from the left is to try to impart a spin from the right.... [A]n information flow distorted from the right would be just as much a disservice as distortion from the left. What we really should be after... is accurate information. And I don't see what any conservative or anybody else for that matter has to fear from accurate information." M. Stanton Evans
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Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY)
“For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you,” he told CNN back in May. “He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.”
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"We are are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation.
John Stuart Mill was a 19th century political philosopher:
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." John Stuart Mill.
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