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June 22, 2010 08:29 PM UTC
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have just been named as the new Front Page Editors, We have each agreed to write a dairy about Colorado Water policies or law and put it on pols. All we ask in return is the modest emolument of $100,000 per diary.
David will even throw in some Russian music videos for free.
Are you listening, Ali?
I don’t know if you mentioned this or not, Jason.
If the former, no real problem. A contract between two entities. If the latter, hmmmmmm….
By campaign, I mean anything that he might have still had after leaving the House. You know, like a fund to pay his wife with, IIRC.
….but don’t many politicians retire with a campaign fund account that they can then dispose of how they wish?
And if he did do that, did the Hasan Foundation put the money into that account or just a personal one?
as a Hasan Foundation fellow. It had nothing to do with his campaign accounts.
to disguise a contribution.
with some facts. Seriously, it’s funny, anything that comes up in the news about McInnis or Norton you guys will turn around and try to use it against them.
It’s call politics.
Not an allegation. Just a thought. Speculation on why someone in politics might get paid a lot for doing very little. Feel free to come up with your own. Have a drink or something.
…when was the money paid to McInnis? In a prior diary about this, someone said the money was paid 3-5 years ago. Is that true?
in 2005 and 2006. The money was paid to him.
I wonder if those people who view this payment as a campaign contribution take the position that it was actually a “pre-campaign” contribution”
Then I’ll just point out that every time Hickenlooper got a paycheck it was all a “secret pre-campaign contribution”. But no one is trying to be irrational here.
…is not the same as income received from a “foundation”, presumably one under the Hasan family control.
Once again, the righties just make no fickin’ sense.
You are taking both yourselves and an offhand snarky remark way too seriously. I thought overly earnest liberals, tree huggers and feminists were supposed to be humorless.
Nobody pays someone $300,000 to write 150 double-spaced pages of stuff like “Water! It is important!”
If the author had been anyone but a still-deemed-influential politician like McInnis, he/she would never have gotten a FRACTION of that amount.
They are an absolute necessity for the survival of the Republican Party. DISGUISED POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS! Tom DeLay and I could not have lived without them. The Colorado Republican Party and the national GOP depend on disguised political contributions. The disguised political contributions we use day to day come mostly from powerful Republicans — some from wealthy CEOs — but mostly from powerful Republicans.
redstateblues,
You cannot be serious. What necessitates the Democrat’s ethical deficiencies: Murtha and PMA, Rangel the landlord, Geithner and the IRS, Blago (He of reality TV stardom)…
Neither party has monopolized ethics and criminal violations. Hell, I remember a recent President was impeached because the truth hurts.
for governor of Colorado. ‘Round these parts, we don’t cotton to lawyer-lobbyists trading on their politiical influence for big payouts in exchange for busy work.
Try it some time. Did you fail to read the McInnis water articles? I think so.
Me like water.
Now pay $300,000 in small unmarked bills.
Somebody pay Bucolic Buffalo before he becomes belligerent.
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Because Billionaires have to explain to us when they make a gift.
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the difference between a billionaire handing out cash and a nonprofit foundation doing the same, don’t you?
Oh, is that the rule for nonprofit foundations?
Its the rule for private institutions in America. Cool idea I know