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January 09, 2009 06:45 PM UTC
16 Comments
This has been going on for years. I did it myself in a Speaker of the House race, even diverting money from a Republican candidate because she wasn’t supporting the right Speaker candidate. I also coordinated with the candidate for speaker. This is nothing short of a witch hunt. This has been going on for years and years, its not even unusual. My guess is that the wing-nuts are just mad that Balmer was going to pervail. The problem is that there is no institutional memory and the dopes we have in office now just don’t know that they are dopes.
It’s been going on for years, so that makes it right.
you did it yourself when it was prohibited? And that because it “has been going on for years and years, [and] its not even unusual” that it is OK–even if prohibited?
If only those whiny legislators would just realize, corruption is business as usual. Kids these days.
What is corrupt about what occurred. People make donations to candidates based upon their voting record all the time. They let them know when they disagree with a vote too. This is the way the system works, needs to work and has always worked. The only problem is that certain legislators don’t like to be put in a hard place. They want to be “free.” Well they are free, always have been. If they vote their conscience and against some supporter, they risk losing that supporter’s support. It’s just that the whinny people we elect these days don’t want to take the consequences of their actions because they might not get re-elected. Tough for them.
People make campaign contributions all the time. Correct. But
That’s tying a contribution to a quid pro quo.
By any standard of ethics I can think of, that’s corruption.
But your two posts to this thread have definitely cleared up any misconceptions I might had about why many Real People don’t think that our government is working in the interest of Real People.
You see, nobody lobbies for us…
From Sealover’s Rocky article, cited above:
Plain and simple.
I believe pay to play is wrong, and I believe that breaking the rule against outside involvement in legislative leadership races is wrong.
But I wonder whether the legislature’s rules against outsiders getting involved in leadership contests is ethical or wise?
While I think the attack on Balmer is a witch hunt set off by a naive rookie, I really don’t know who to believe in this dust up.
Balmer’s reputation has been tarnished, and who will trust the rookie who complained? Who will work with her, contribute to her or even talk to her?
She’s toast, I’d guess.
Funny how things work sometimes.
You might be right that the rule is out of step with reality, but it is the rule and all of Craig’s fond reminiscing — when legislators were legislators, and there was a cigar in every mouth and a lobbyist-supplied hooker in every lap! — doesn’t change that as far as this complaint.
That’s the funniest line all day, AS.
Are you talking about the time he embellished his resume and lost a congressional race in disgrace? Or the time he disappeared and emerged covered in leaves and vines, unable to remember his own name? Or the time he forgot to mention he’d had an extensive career in North Carolina politics when he first ran here in Colorado?
At some point, there’s so much tarnish there’s no actual shine left.
He’s spent years here starting over, trying to be a good citizen, serving in the Army, etc.
But when power is involved, his power hungry opponents bring up his past and use it against him. Dirty politics, imo. But typical for both Dems and Repubs.
I’m seeing Balmer as the victim.
We have truly gone through the looking glass.
The fact the guy has a documented past as a fraud and a liar who let down his supporters and then tried to conceal his mistakes — completely immaterial to the matter at hand.
But you’re right, it’s just like those politicians to use someone’s past against him. What will they think of next, holding legislators accountable for their voting records? The nerve!
I don’t know. Why did Teddy run for re-election and the presidency after killing that girl?
Pretty astounding.