Comments on: UPDATE: The Church of Money, Rod Blagojevich and Bill Richardson http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/ The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:19:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shawn http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-114 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:51:43 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-114 Peace and Prosperity… Shame and Folly!!!

]]> By: The Church of Money, Rod Blagojevich and Bill Richardson « Public Citizen’s Blog http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-104 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:24:26 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-104 [...] January 7, 2009 by Andy Wilson Originally posted at TexasVox.org: [...]

]]> By: coffee fiend http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-101 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:34:58 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-101 it’s crazy what Blagojevich has gotten away with already… he’s an international embarrassment

]]> By: Andy Wilson http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-96 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:41:28 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-96 No, $1000 probably doesn’t “taint”– what does is the influence of bundlers, who raise money at the maximum from industry donors, etc, and Obama raised $63 million through various bundlers. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00009638
Are their reasons only that they really, really, REALLY like Obama and have lots of rich friends, like the biggest bundler, Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks, or do they have a political agenda. Hard to know.

The one thing we can know is that public financing means no influence from money.

]]> By: John Jay http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-93 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:02:54 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-93 I guess that I just don’t agree that a donation over $1,000 is predisposed to “taint” as you imply.

]]> By: Andy Wilson http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-92 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:25:59 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-92 My hopes is that Richardson never did anything unethical. Let’s certainly hold off the tar and feathers– I don’t want to smear Richardson. I want to save him.

My point is though, that we will never be completely certain all politicians are on the up and up until we have public financing.

BTW, only 44% of Obama’s donations came from donations under $1000. Unprecedented? Absolutely. Free of taint? Not completely.

]]> By: sauer kraut http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-91 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:27:43 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-91 I agree with John Jay.

Nice positioning of “possibly,” tho. Reminds me of the time I listened to the street preacher who asked if Jesus was gay… “possibly,” he said. But without any evidence or indications. Just a bunch of garbage smear.

]]> By: Trevor http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-90 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:20:50 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-90 The Obama campaign is the exception and not the rule. Almost never will down ticket candidates get the kind of financial support from “regular citizens” necessary to make them beholden to the broader public interest. And even when that happens, how many such office holders will represent the most meritorious ideas (the point of the blog post) instead of the interests and perspectives of their particular group of citizen contributors? Obama is a rare case indeed insofar as he has stated again and again that he will be a President for all Americans, not just those who supported him.

]]> By: John Jay http://texasvox.org/2009/08/27/the-church-of-money-rod-blagojevich-and-bill-richardson/#comment-89 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:48:14 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=896#comment-89 Let’s hold the tar and feathers for Governor Richardson until after the grand jury issues its report. Though additional controls may be merited, one might only look to the election of Senator Obama to show that sometimes private donations lead to the right choice. I only hope that the President-elect DOES feel beholden to the vast amounts of American’s who contributed to his campaign in even the lowliest of amounts.

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