[ExI] public funding of election PR

[Damien Broderick]

At 05:52 PM 6/29/2009 -0700, spike wrote:

> > >Illegal contributions can still be funneled thru citizens  that need not
> > >even know they donated to a candidate.  Millions of dollars went to
> > >Hillary Clinton this way, and they didn't even make any
> > >dramatic effort to hide it.
>
> > References, please.
>
>http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story

Interesting! Traditional US ward politics, sounds like.

<He has never before supported a U.S. politician and, not yet a 
citizen, he is barred from voting. But when Fujianese community 
leaders asked him to donate to Clinton, he said, he eagerly 
contributed $1,000. Immigrants who have permanent resident status can 
legally make campaign contributions.

Coming up with the money was hard, Lin acknowledged, adding: "The 
restaurant is really small." >

Using the names of the vanished or dead is also traditional, but more 
deplorable.

It's lucky the other guys never get up to this sort of trick.

Damien Broderick






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