"This is how they buy elections"
On Thursday, Steve Duin wrote a column discussing the need for campaign finance reforms supported by State Senator Vicki Walker, who is running for Secretary of State against Rick Metsger and Kate Brown.
By Thursday afternoon, the OEA had dropped another $25,000 on the race, bringing Brown's total to more than $400,000 - $285,000 more than her two opponents in the Democratic Primary race for Secretary of State combined
Duin from his blog ...
Both Vicki Walker and Rick Metsger called me Thursday afternoon to report the immediate fallout of my Thursday column on the Secretary of State race:
The Oregon Education Association promptly dropped another $25,000 into the Kate Brown campaign. Apparently, the OEA was terrified to learn that Brown -- who has about as much sincere interest in campaign finance reform as Dick Cheney -- only has a $260,000 edge in fundraising on Metsger and Walker COMBINED.
As Metsger said, "It goes to the point that Vicki mentioned: The unions don't really want to do campaign finance reform, because this is how they buy elections."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
This underscores the main problem achieving real reform in Oregon Government. The reformers will never get financed by the organizations and entities that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and those organizations have near-limitless resources to pump into the campaigns of those that take direction.
As Chomsky once observed:
"The poor complain, they often do, but that's just idle chatter. The system works, it works for all, at least for all that matter."
All the MEDIA are now FAUX "News"
This election is not about color/"race", gender, liberal or conservative ...its about BIG MONEY... & 29 new nuclear power plants.
(your copy of an email I am sending to all our Congress People.)
NO Obama = NO NUKES!
NO to Dick Cheney! & GE!
****EXTREME WARNING****
** to ALL DEMOCRAT Senators & Representatives**
DEMOCRATS Voting in the PRIMARY States CHOSE CLINTON.
Do NOT Allow REPUBLICANS in the CAUCUS states to "choose" our Candidate.
IF YOU Throw this Election to the Republicans--The Democratic Party
IS HISTORY--and YOU will be OUT.
TABOO words the MEDIA doesn't Mention:
Cheney Energy Bill
Rezko Trial
Quoting Obama: "The American people deserve honest answers."
QUESTIONS All of US should be ASKING The MEDIA: Phone, Fax, email, post, blog & Asking ALL your Congress people/SuperDelegates.
QUESTIONS:
1. WHY isn't THE MEDIA providing NEWS Coverage of The BIGGEST---ENERGY ISSUE? i.e. Are WE going to LET Cheney, GE, Westinghouse et al, Build 29 New nuclear power plants, or Not?
ANSWER: The TV MEDIA isn't providing NEWS coverage of one of the BIGGEST ISSUES of our time --BECAUSE: the BUILDERS of those nuke power plants will be GE, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp. of Illinois, Entergy; 3 Consortiums of nuke industy companies...
... and .... GE owns NBC/MSNBC, Westinghouse owns CBS...PLUS-(GE, 2nd largest corp. on the planet) & Westinghouse have $BILLIONS of Adverising $$$ to spend in EVERY FORM OF MEDIA they don't own.)
i.e. The NEWS you GET to SEE & HEAR on TV is the "news" GE/Westinghouse et al...WANT You to SEE and Hear. THEY do NOT want YOU to KNOW Anything about The Cheney Energy Bill.
2. What's the Cheney Energy Bill about?
ANSWER: The Cheney Energy Bill passed in 2005 (H.R. 6). McCain Voted FOR it. Obama Voted FOR it. Clinton Voted AGAINST it. (i.e. McCain & Obama already SOLD OUT to the nuke industry in 2005. Clinton did not: will not.)
The Cheney Energy Bill decreed that US Taxpayers would REPAY the Nuke Building LOANS that DEFAULT. (The Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default at 50% or greater.) No new nukes were built for 30 years because the banks wouldn't loan the money--too risky.
Why Should we build nukes?
ANSWER: There is NO Good Reason for US to build nukes. We NEED De-Centralized, Clean, Renewable, INEXPENSIVE ENERGY Technology. Nukes are NONE OF THE ABOVE. There's PLENTY of excellent NEW Technology that will fill the bill...given greater INVESTMENT.
Why Shouldn't we build nukes?
ANSWER: Nukes are OBSOLETE 70-Year OLD Technology. WE already have a 50 YEAR NIGHTMARE Legacy of MILLIONS of TONS and BILLIONS of Gallons of NUKE WASTE all over the USA in leaking tanks, crumbling buildings, contaminated rivers...GOOGLE: Rocky Flats Denver Plutonium & Hanford WA nuclear waste...and READ about the NIGHTMARE that = nuke waste.
ALL the Nuke waste dumps are CLOSED. The nuke waste at the 100-Plus existing reactors has been stored ON-SITE for DECADES. All of them represent Terrorist TARGETS of opportunity & potentially catastrophic accidents.
3. Why isn't the TV MEDIA providing NEWS coverage of the Rezko trial? Why did NONE of the TV MEDIA even mention last week's SENSATIONAL Court Testimony that:
Two Witnesses testified that Rezko told them the prosecutor in the Rezko case (Patrick Fitzgerald) was going to be fired to stop the criminal prosecution of Rezko.
ANSWER: GE, Westinghouse, et al = the Corporate Controllers of the Corporate-Controlled MEDIA. They will not be covering NEWS from the Rezko Trial--UNTIL--AFTER Obama gets the Nomination.
The so-called "left wing" & "right wing" MEDIA have ALL been PROMOTING Obama on TV everyday since last November. Their GOAL is to get Obama nominated, THEN Start reporting the REAL News/REAL DIRT the FBI has been gathering on Obama, Rezko, Auichi, Alsammarae for more than 4 years.
5. Here's some Words the MEDIA says A LOT: Obama hasn't been VETTED.
QUESTION: WHY Not?? HOW can the "news" MEDIA keep repeating that FACT.. without it ever occurring to them it's THEIR JOB to VET HIM?
ANSWER: The NEWS MEDIA'S--JOB--isn't to Report the News; not anymore. Their JOB is to Put out WHATEVER Propaganda their Corporation wants to SELL to the American people...to make themselves MORE MONEY.
ALL the "faux" "journalists" on MSNBC, et al are now Media "Stars" making $$$Millions per year to Convince YOU of anything their Corporate Masters WANT you to Believe.
QUESTION: Why hasn't he been VETTED by the Democrat Party Leaders?
ANSWER: MONEY. The Democrat party leaders already KNOW most of the Real News/REAL DIRT the Republican Party will Spring on Obama as soon as he's nominated, but, a whole lot of them are SELL-OUTS to the same Big Corporations that are running McCain&/Obama for President.
Many of the smaller fry...a whole LOT of the Congress People/SuperDelegates are already bought and paid for.
Obama Formed HIS Own PAC. The military-industrial complex, insurance companies, drug companies etc. already put their cash into his PAC---before he started running. THEN Obama's PAC made "campaign contributions" to a WHOLE LOT of his fellow Congressmen & Senators/ SUPERDELEGATES.
i.e. THE FIX was IN -- BEFORE he even started running.
[You have to greatly admire the extreme fortitude,
Honesty, and GUTS of ALL the DEMOCRATIC CongressPeople/ SUPERDELEGATES who are STILL Standing AGAINST CHENEY/ GE/Westinghouse/their MEDIA].
MOST Americans RECOGNIZE the Republican Party as their ENEMY.
WE the People Threw a WHOLE LOT of those bums OUT in 2006.
WE must now RECOGNIZE the TV MEDIA & Most of the 'Mainstream MEDIA" as our ENEMIES -operating as the PROPAGANDA TOOLS of their REPUBLICAN Owners.
Millions of us also yelled, phoned, wrote, and emailed Congress & WE succeeded in STOPPING the Dubai Ports Deal.
What YOU can do to STOP The MEDIA SELL-OUTS and the Democrat Party SELL-OUTS from giving Obama the nomination and throwing this election to the Republicans: Phone, fax, email, write, to your Representatives/Senators & SUPERDELEGATES:
*DEMAND they VOTE to Nominate CLINTON*
INFORM them that those who SELL OUT the Democratic Party and the Majority of the population of the United States---by Voting to nominate the FAKE Obama candidate--will be duly noted and thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity.
**DEMAND that they FAIL to nominate
THE Candidate who HAS NOT BEEN VETTED**
*Tell them "The MATH" does NOT Add Up*
WITH two to five times more MONEY than Clinton, and the FULL SUPPORT of--ALL---the TV MEDIA--Obama is less than 1% ahead in the pledged delegate count and the popular vote count--Proving beyond any question that CLINTON is BY FAR the Strongest CANDIDATE: BEST FOR PRESIDENT.
Tell them: The ACTUAL number of VOTES cast by INDIVIDUALS - does NOT correspond to the Pledged Delegate TOTALS, or the popular vote TOTALS given that; the Caucus states do not even have to report ACTUAL Vote Totals; & given the EXTRA Delegates AWARDED in some precincts.
i.e. The "Criteria" by which Obma (Falsely) Claims that Superdelegates voting Clinton in as the nominee...goes against "the will of the people" and "TAKES the Nomination Away" from him is SPECIOUS and FALSE on its Face, and the SuperDelegates know it.
A. The ACTUAL Real PRIMARY Vote Totals ARE a true reflection of the will of the people, and that WILL = Clinton for President.
B. Obama Does Not HAVE the Nomination;
The SuperDelegates can't TAKE AWAY something Obama does not possess.
Obama has not EARNED or DESERVED the nomination. Clinton EARNED IT: Clinton DESERVES IT. Clinton WILL WIN.
... cut, copy, paste--use any or all of this message, or write your own...AND Send to everyone on your email list & ask THEM to email it to everyone on their email list.
IF Most of the people on your email list...& their email list...WILL do that AND Phone, fax, write, email their Congresspeople & Senators... POST on blogs: Local, State, National--TV "news", newspapers, radio, colleges--& (posting as much as possible in all the Upcoming PRIMARY States)...
...WE THE PEOPLE can CHANGE the dastardly direction this election is headed:
WE WILL GET the Clintons back in the White House:
RE-GAIN Good Government:
RE-GAIN a better future for our children and grandchildren:
RE-GAIN the Trust and Respect of the rest of the nations and peoples of OUR WORLD...just like WE THE PEOPLE-STOPPED-the Dubai Ports deal.
Post this REAL News everywhere you can:
Obama's campaign is based on ONE BIG LIE:
*Working across the Aisles to bring
*CHANGE*
OBAMA = NO Experience/NO CHANGE
Obama claims 7 years experience in the Illinois legislature -Working Across the Aisles, Bringing people together to get good CHANGES passed-as exemplified by 26 good bills with his name on them.
A Chicago neewspaper reporter says all 26 bills were passed in ONE Year and they were NOT Obama's.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3418/10516/
EXCERPTS:
But what’s interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year.
Republicans controlled the Illinois General Assembly for six years of Obama’s seven-year tenure.
Then Emil Jones Jr. (became the Senate Majority leader), He became Obama’s kingmaker.
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
During his seventh year in the state Senate, Obama...sponsored a whopping 26 bills including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
Making CHANGES = ZILCH
INTEGRITY = ZERO
(His book "Audacity ..." confirms:
Democrats had Majority Control of the Illinois Senate when those bills were passed. They were passed during his last year in the state Senate.)
Dick Cheney has Pulled Off,
& made US PAY for:
Energy Ripoff # 1: ENRON: Electricity Rates
Energy Ripoff # 2: Oil & Gas: Market Manipulation
Ripoff #3: Iraq War
Let's ALL Get Together and STOP Cheney's NEXT Big
Energy Ripoff #4: Nuclear power plants
SOUND THE ALARM!
p.s. Last week's NEWS: The governor of South Carolina is refusing to allow the Federal govt. to ship 30 tons of plutonium into South Carolina---until the Feds provide him with a written agreement that the Feds will --REMOVE-- the plutonium from South Carolina-in the event their plans to produce FUEL are unsuccessful.
(Looks like the govt. wants to move 30 TONS of plutonium from the western states to South Carolina to locate it closer to the 29 nukes to be built in many of the Eastern a& Southern states.
(See Map at NY Times LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/washington/31nuclear.html?_r=1&oref=sl... )
(BTW a microscopic particle of plutonium, once inhaled, will kill you from lung cancer in about a week.)
Plans to build those nuclear power plants are well advanced -with licensing hearings already scheduled for the first few.