Thursday, December 13, 2012

lt;h3 gt;THE NEW YORK TIMES - TAX-EXEMPT GROUPS SHIELD POLITICAL GIFTS OF BUSINESSES - NYTIMES.COM. lt;/h3 gt;
Meanwhile, copious amounts of middle class monies have been sucked up by the giant vacuum cleaners of insurance companies, medical billing companies, energy corporations and utilities, all funneling into the pockets of 1% of our citizens. 0 11th Congressional District candidates Bill Foster, a Democrat, and Rep Judy Biggert, a Republican, have received millions in campaign support from their national parties and from super political action committees. Those figures do not include millions more in donations sent directly to the candidates campaigns. Matt Doheny led the restructuring of a company that saw 500 workers lose their jobs and executives receive bonuses, and the company where Doheny made his fortune invested in offshore companies that used. Krocs widow, Joan, made only a single political donation during her husbands life, but gave some $50,000 to Democrats in the four years following his .

lt;!--more-- gt; lt;h3 gt;MOTHERJONES.COM - HOW AGRIBIZ BOUGHT THE FARM BILL - MOTHER JONES - TOM PHILPOTT. lt;/h3 gt;
His conduit backers included health care companies, utilities, Realtors, law firms, a timber company, grocers, credit unions, chiropractors and builders. As President Obamas health care reform package heads to the Supreme Court this week, at least one group is trying to get its views on the Affordable Care Act heard in an. Do Democrats Have an Advantage on the Web. Obama Gets More Online Visitors Than GOP Candidates Combined. The corporate ruling class and its allies have the money and are happy to donate some of it to a candidate or candidates of the right persuasion. quot;I will vote to support companies that keep our jobs right here in America I think the flood of money pouring into campaigns from special interests is turning voters off and threatening our democracy.
lt;h3 gt;KEYWORD - TEAPARTYPATRIOTS. lt;/h3 gt;
Assemblyman Rivera has received more than $20,000 in campaign donations from drug company interests, among the highest total for state lawmakers. Addressing threats to health cares core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power. Responding to the controversy, the ACLUs Alicia Gay criticized the powerful lobbying arm of the Catholic Church for creating much ado about nothing, and then, for good measure, chastised the Churchs bishops for their perceived failure to talk about womens health. Contributions to Republican candidates and committees are way off, while donations to Democrats are setting records. quot;. In this years primaries, votes for GOP candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats. Labor unions - themselves among the beneficiaries of Citizens United - have also donated millions of dollars to national super PACs and state-level nonprofit groups involved in battles over government spending, collective bargaining and health care.
lt;h3 gt;PUBLIC CITIZEN - MEDIA HITS 2012. lt;/h3 gt;
Will it be Clintonista Democratic centrism or the New Urban Republicanism of Giuliani, as also exemplified by Los Angeless Republican Mayor Richard Riordan (and approximated by some fairly conservative Democrats like former Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell). With Todays Nods, Feingold Becomes The ONLY Statewide Candidate to Receive Endorsements from ALL of WIs Largest Papers. Video Shows Touch-Screen Voting Machine Purportedly Flipping Vote From Republican Perry to Green Party Candidates in Dal. Democrats will keep House. The other candidates were invited to participate, but declined because of scheduling conflicts, said Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots.
lt;h3 gt;RED STATE - BEN QUAYLE NOT THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR GOP IN AZ CD3 - REDSTATE. lt;/h3 gt;
Bennet, a Denver Democrat, welcomed wayward journalists and several Democratic operatives, including Mark Melanson, Mike Stratton and Craig Hughes, who ran Bennets successful campaign against Buck in 2010. The Official Blog of UNITE - uniteforlife. Or did Direct TV just start carrying this. UMass Lowells Healthy Homes program helped improve the health of Lowell children with asthma by reducing environmental risks that trigger asthma s.
lt;h3 gt;ALL POLITICS STORIES 16 APRIL 2012 - THE GUARDIAN. lt;/h3 gt;
A team of researchers in the Chemistry Department is stu a new drug developed by a bio company that could someday treat a form of lung . All we need to do is cut off donations to the local, state, and national headquarters of the Democratic Party, and to make sure the donations are made directly to worthy and honorable Democratic Party candidates. As Democrats of the Democratic Party, we join together in seeking reform within the Democratic Party.
lt;h3 gt;MCCLATCHY - BIG-MONEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO IMPACT ELECTIONS, MOSTLY FOR GOP. lt;/h3 gt;
Quad-City Times: The Presidential Gambit To Place Health-Care Reform Ahead Of Economic Recovery Jeopardized Both. quot; The presidential gambit to place health-care reform ahead of economic recovery jeopardized both. Public Citizen has been urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to require publicly traded companies to disclose political donations, and today it picked up an important endorsement-from a current SEC commissioner. As is their custom, Democrats are blaming each other for Democrat Martha Coakleys unforgivable loss to Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate election.
lt;h3 gt;POLITIFACT WISCONSIN - MARK NEUMANN SAYS HE DOESNT RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS. lt;/h3 gt;
So is a lousy Coakley campaign in a state with a poor record of electing women candidates. I still think theres a strong argument that the administration (not Chrysler) did close dealerships that donated to Republicans. Ive been wondering how Obama was going to sell Democrat cars to Republicans.
lt;h3 gt;HEALTH CARE RENEWAL - STRANGE BEDFELLOWS - PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND IDENTITY POLITICS. lt;/h3 gt;
The health secretarys campaign against tobacco advertising is more radical than it might at first appear. Minicab boss granted meeting with transport minister after Tory donation. Chairman of minicab firm granted interview with Philip Hammond over bus lanes after 250,000 donation to party. Oral Health Changes in Puberty As mentioned in part 1 of our story, puberty brings a new set of challenges to oral health especially for girls. Perrys Provocative Push Back Liberals and Democrats oppose voter ID laws because illegal aliens, felons, and people tend to vote Democrat.
lt;h3 gt;TECHNORATI - ALL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN MAY, 2011 ARCHIVE - TECHNORATI. lt;/h3 gt;
Last chance to make your 2012 tax-deductible donation. Energy companies ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips have ordered staff to leave platforms in the Gulf, which account for nearly a third of US oil output. So the Republicans havent even picked a candidate yet, but the state party is attempting to rake the Democratic candidate over the coals already. They are totally geared towards painting the sole Democrat candidate as bad for Arizona. If states decide against participating in an expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, the nations state and local public hospitals may face an increase of more than $50 billion in uncompensated care costs by 2019.
lt;h3 gt;GOICOECHEAS CAMPAIGN FUND TOPS $124,000 IN SENATE BID - PAHRUMP VALLEY TIMES. lt;/h3 gt;
Thats because theyre close with newly powerful Democratic committee chairs like John Dingell, Ed Markey, and Daniel Inouye, wholl use high-profile hearings to advance the Democratic commissioners priorities. Candidates (Presidential quotations organized by candidate). Candidate Grid (Summary by candidate of positions on each topic).
lt;h3 gt;LA TIMES - OUTSIDE SPENDING TOPS $42 MILLION ON TOP ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAL RACES - LATIMES.COM. lt;/h3 gt;
Rick Lazio (Republican Candidate) On the issues gt; gt; SenateMatch Profile. Recent (Most recent quotation for each candidate). Issue Grid (Summary by topic of each candidates positions). Money gives a candidate a chance, and large donations like those that Newt Gingrich received from Adelson a year ago kept him in the race longer than he might otherwise have lasted.
lt;h3 gt;. lt;/h3 gt;
The other companies of Romneys GOP operative Nathan Sproul, at center of Voter Registration Fraud Scandal, still at it. Govt fraud investigator on bankrupt, corrupt, criminal nuke companies. And that PAC, which Romanoff used to support other Democrats in the Colorado Legislature, where he was House speaker, took contributions from the PACs of banks, insurance companies, oil companies, corporations and others. An Indiana University professor says Komen might actually be the group that is hurt most by the decision to withhold its donation.
lt;h3 gt;. lt;/h3 gt;
Indiana Planned Parenthood Receives Thousands In Donations. Indiana Planned Parenthood says it has received thousands of donations in the past few days. You know, I dont care if its not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: horse. 5) Get the insurance companies out of health care.
lt;h3 gt;. lt;/h3 gt;
I dont care if it is not a good tactic to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horse anyway. Free to change the healthcare law to eliminate money favors to insurance companies and companies. Even the 2010 healthcare-reform act, which drew the ardent interest of the , health-insurance, and hospital industries, only inspired $120 million in lobbying cash. Farm Bureau PACS donated another $16 million to state candidates, according to election records.

URL: http://www.nytimes.com

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Search This Blog

Blog Archive