"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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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)

I'm more troubled by foreign governments (like the Chinese) funnelling money
into our political system in order to influence government policy regarding
those countries.