BUSH JR ~ KARL ROVE DON'T STEAL ELECTIONS ANYMORE~THEY ARE NOW ABLE TO BUY THEM WITH SECRET TARP BAILOUT $$....

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BEFORE LEVING THE WHITE~HOUSE GEORGE BUSH JR~KARL ROVE MADE SURE THAT THE TARP PONZI BAILOUT LEGISLATION WAS ENACTED TO HELP FINANCE FUTURE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ELECTION$ WITHOUT ANYONE BEING THE WISER SINCE TENS OF MILLIONS OD OUR AMERICAN TAXPAYERS TARP $$ ARE GOING INTO SECRETIVE KARL ROVE SWIFT BOAT STYLE MEDIA BUYS ALL ACROSS AMERICA.


THIS DEVIOUS PLAN OF GEORGE BUSH JR ~ KARL ROVE & OUR WEALTHY ELITE CORPORATE (WALL ST ~ BANKERS ) CABAL 2 TAKE FINANCIAL CONTROL OF OUR AMERICAN ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER & BEYOND WAS QUITE SINISTER & INVOLVED OUR...

1) 5 CONSERVATIVE U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES OPENING UP UNLIMITED POLITICAL CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS

2) 3 REPUBLICAN FEC MEMBERS READY & WAITING TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY IN ALLOWING OUR U.S. ELECTIONS TO BE GIVEN TO THE HIGHEST $$ BIDDER.

3)GEORGE BUSH & KARL ROVE ENACTED BOGUS CORPORATE (WAKK ST ~ BANKERS) TARP BAILOUT LEGISLATION so THOSE TARP FUNDS COULD CONTINUE BEING RE~ENTERED INTO OUR ELECTION PROCESS WITHOUT ANY OF OUR AMERICAN VOTERS EVEN KNOWING WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM !

100 % OF AMERICAN VOTERS HAVE NEVER BEEN ENLIGHTENED TO THE REALITY THAT THEIR TARP BAILOUT TAXPAYERS $$ ARE BEING DONATED BACK TO CERTAIN POLITICOS THIS ELECTION CYCLE TO PURCHASE MEDIA ADVERTISING BRAINWASHING THEM TO VOTE FOR CERTAIN POLITICAL CANDIDATES.

USING OUR OWN TAX $$ TO CONVINCE US TO VOTE FOR CERTAIN POLICAL CANDIATES MEANS WE NOW HAVE secret PUBLICLY FINANCED ELECTIONS ALL ACROSS AMERICA WITHOUT IT EVER BEING VOTED ON BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ?

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Senate Battles Over DISCLOSE Act as Vote Nears

Senators Spar in Advance of Campaign Finance Disclosure Law in Wake of Citizens United Ruling

By Jesse Zwick 9/23/10 6:38 AM

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), one of two Republicans targeted to cross the aisle for the DISCLOSE Act. (Pete Marovich/ZUMApress.com)

This morning, the Senate plans to vote on the DISCLOSE Act — which would require organizations involved in political campaigning to disclose the identity of large donors and would bar foreign corporations, large government contractors, and TARP recipients from making political expenditures.

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nowBuzz up!ShareThe outcome is uncertain. Public interest groups and Democratic Senate staffs are pressuring Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, the most centrist members of the GOP, to support the bill, but neither has signaled their support. In the meantime, the party leaders, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are sparring energetically, each accusing the other of perfidy on the matter.

The notoriety of Citizens United has ensured that relatively small campaign finance bills like the DISCLOSE Act are getting substantial attention from Senators — and even the president. But it also means the much-needed reforms have become puppets in political theater, making it all the more difficult for both sides to negotiate a rational fix to a system of political disclosure that is clearly broken.

Reformers believe right is on their side. Yesterday morning, local affiliates of U.S. PIRG — the federation of state public interest research groups — hosted an event in Bangor to demonstrate local support for passage. PIRG organizers, the Maine League of Voters and a number of small businesses gathered and argued for the legislation. For months, business groups have lobbied Snowe and Collins, and demonstrated Maine residents’ support for more rigorous disclosure for political spending.

Transparency and good governance groups’ newfound, obsessive focus on Snowe and Collins extends beyond the Senators’ moderate stance on other issues and their relatively endangered status as New England Republicans, however, explains Lisa Gilbert, democracy advocate at U.S. PIRG.

“Both were very involved in the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, working closely with Feingold — particularly Senator Snowe,” notes Gilbert. “It’s not a stretch to say they’d be involved in legislation like this.”

Moreover, Maine is a state that’s famous for its strict campaign finance laws and its citizens who tend to like them. “I think it is fair to say that Maine is often ahead of the game when it comes to clean money and ethics issues,” Gilbert adds. “It’s one of the only states that has a system of public financing in place and it has a history of being independent and pushing for transparency in government so it can make the right decision. That’s generally been reflected in state policy and reflected in their choice of Senators.”

But in Washington yesterday, debate centered on the idea of disclosure more broadly — and vocally. Democrats accused Republicans of reneging on their previous commitment to the cause while Republicans claimed Democrats were using it as cover to distort the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections.

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) conducted a portion of his floor speech as a trivia game, asking listeners to guess the senator who made the following comment.

“What we ought to have is disclosure. I think groups should have the right to run those ads but they ought to be disclosed and they ought to be accurate, end of quote. Who said that?” Durbin asked his fellow senators. “The Senator from Kentucky who has just come to the floor — the minority leader — in the context of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill in 2002.”

He went on to call out Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for their previous support for the idea of disclosure as well.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for his part, focused entirely on accusing Democrats of meddling before the election. The Minority Leader coined a new name for the bill — “an incumbency protection act for Democrats in Congress” — and argued that, “now, after spending the last year and a half enacting policies Americans don’t like, they want to prevent their opponents from criticizing what they’ve done…. They’re trying to rig the system to their advantage.”

Claims from Republicans like McConnell that the DISCLOSE Act is an attempt to sway the midterm elections to Democrats’ advantage were given a dose of reality by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) later in the day.

“We are willing to change the effective date to January 2011 so that it won’t apply to this November’s election,” Schumer said. “Even if we didn’t take this step, the reality is, we are late enough in the election cycle that the law could not realistically take effect in time for this fall. But to show we are willing to work with Republicans, we would offer this as an amendment if we can get onto the bill.”

But even though more than a month has lapsed since the last Senate vote on the DISCLOSE Act, the bill Democrats are trying to move today will look identical to the one that failed to overcome a GOP filibuster in July — indicating that actual progress in negotiations has stalled.

“Through this last period of time, we’ve been reaching out and offering to negotiate changes to the legislation to meet any objection that Republicans may have,” claims Gilbert, “and [Schumer’s office] has made it really clear that they’re willing to focus on disclosure and have it take effect next year, but no Republican Senator has stepped forward in a meaningful way to negotiate.”

TAGS: Congress, Law, Politics, campaign finance disclosure, campaign finance reform, citizens united, corporate donations, disclose, donors, donors list, elections, Lobbying, olympia snowe, political donors, soft money, susan collins


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