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Gould 0738
 
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Default OT--Dem sleaze tactics not working as planned.

Sure. And moveon.org is collecting money from foreigners to run ads meant
to influence our country's political campaigns. That doesn't worry you?


I think you'd be quick to defend any foreign
contributions that benefitted Bush or other right wing candidates. "Freedom of
speech, free market, anybody can buy an ad, etc"

If your numbers are accurate, this "Move.on" group is no sort of player at all
on the campaign stage. 2.1 million contributors have ponied up a total of less
than $7 million over the last five years? That would include the 2000
elections.
That's less than $1 a year per member.
Sure, some give nothing and some might give a couple of hundred thousand....

A couple hundred thousand = enough money to air *one* TV commercial during a
prime time slot.

How much money do foreign coporations, (and corporations who have moved much of
their operations offshore to avoid American taxation, environmental, and labor
relations
rules) give to the radical right?

I guess I'm bothered more by stunts like Republicans funding Ralph Nader's
campaign in 2000- just to open up another avenue of attack on a political
opponent.
(Ref: Anti-Gore ads featuring Ralph Nader blasting Gore's environmental record
were admittedly paid for by the Republican Leadership Conference)