Election Influences

Greg Goodwin

Here are Mitt Romney’s top contributors for 2012:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286

Oh yeah, remember Bain Capital, Romney’s company? Well, guess who they traditionally contribute too?

http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=bain+capital&searchButt_clean.x=36&searchButt_clean.y=29&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=bain+capital&searchButt_clean.x=36&searchButt_clean.y=29&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11

Here are Obama’s for 2008. (The reason I give you his 2008 so you will see who influenced that Presidential election):

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

Here is Obama’s for 2012: (Hum, where’s the banks?)

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638

So as we fight over the Republican / Democrat thing, follow the money and you will see who puts who in the White House (For that matter, all political positions are influenced by money). If we don’t get the money out of politics, “We the People” will never have a real voice who will be “OUR” President. How do we do that? As I wrote in an essay in 2005, an FCC license is not a right, as with driver’s licenses, it is a privilege. By formulating a balanced method to do it, the broadcast media and print media business licensing have to donate “X” number of hours of unbiased broadcast time and unbiased print space for the election processes or they don’t get their licenses. This can be a major step in that direction. 

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