pioneers of pig futures, rangers of ratshit

[burr]

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The list of donors to the Bush campaign is a who's who of Georgia chief executives, including Doug Daft of Coca-Cola Co., Leo Mullin of Delta Air Lines, Michael Eskew of UPS, Allen Franklin of Southern Co., Robert Nardelli of Home Depot and Daniel Amos of AFLAC.

Marty Klein, a spokesman for the Georgia Republican Party, said most of the $2.25 million in donations the Bush campaign reported receiving from Georgia individuals came in connection with a June 20 fund-raiser at a posh Lake Oconee resort where the president addressed a crowd of 750 supporters. Klein called the latest round of fund-raising "just a first step" in the re-election campaign's fund-raising drive.

The Bush campaign raised another $54,000 from political action committees affiliated with top Georgia corporations such as BellSouth, AGL Resources, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Flowers Industries, Southern Co., Synovus Financial Corp., Home Depot and UPS.

Nationally, the Bush campaign reported $34.4 million in contributions during the quarter and an even more eye-popping total of $32.7 million in cash on hand. Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman has told reporters that he expects the president's campaign to "make history" by raising an unprecedented $170 million for the re-election effort.

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Have you bought a Coke, paid your phone bill to Bell South, worked at Home Depot, paid UPS to deliever, flown on Delta, or have health insurance with AFLAC? If so, your some your money is being used to re-elect shrub. And there is nothing you can do, except hope your small contributions to a Democrat match these contributions made by corporate PACS.

No individual anywhere should be allowed to contributed more than $200 per election cycle. And why are PACS still contributing, wasn't McCain-Feingold supposted to end this?

It now seems worse than ever!

<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/politics/0703/18money.html>

[revcarol]

1. Official PAC's aren't contributing.

The CEO or CFO of a corporation strong-arms his/her underlings in the higher ranks of the corporation to contribute $2000 each, along with $2,000 for the wife, and $2,000 for each adult child. Then the contributions are "bundled" into one large package, for which THAT COMPANY OR INDUSTRY GETS CREDIT, WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR DISPENSING THE CORPORATE WELFARE OR CUTTING DOWN A COURT JUDGMENT OR GIVING OUT A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT OR OTHER CHICANERY.