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Octafish

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9. Well, the Big Money is certainly behind her. And green is the color of Buy Partisanship.

Reply to Augustus (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2015, 12:05 PM

Feb 2015

And when someone with big money invests in a politician, that politician is going to try to make that big money someone happy.

Ask Bill and Phil how that works, Gramm's [font color="green"]UBS Vice Chairman[/font color] home page separates the punters from the players.

It's a Buy-Partisan Who's Who:

President William J. Clinton
President George W. Bush
Robert J. McCann
James Carville
John V. Miller
Paula D. Polito
Anthony Roth
Mike Ryan
John Savercool

SOURCE: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

One of my attorney chums doesn't like to see his name on any committee list, non-profit letterhead, or political campaign literature. Doesn't want to give people or big money the wrong idea.

These folks and the inevitable candidate from the ol' club, it seems to me, are past caring.

Some of why DUers and ALL voters should care about Phil Gramm.

FWIW: The fact the nation's "news media" don't bother mentioning any of this should be of concern.

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