Speaking of 527's and middle America: The Knee In The Groin Of Mccain Feingold
By JB Williams (08/18/2004)
americandaily.com
Half of America’s voting population opted out of self-governance years ago because they came to believe that their voice would never be heard above the megaphone of [special interest] in Washington.
Years of effort went into writing and passing legislation intended to remove all [special interest soft money] from the process, culminating in what we now know as McCain Feingold, that bipartisan piece of campaign finance reform legislation signed into law a couple years ago.
Candidate “two John’s” made famous their stump line “We’re comin’, your goin’, don’t let the door hit you on the way out”, a little campaign stump false bravado intended to convince average voters that they want, and would run [special interests] out of town by sundown, if elected.
However the facts tell quite a different story (as is normally the case with these guys). Though the “two John’s” are in a dead heat with President Bush in the polls, when it comes to [political] prostitution, the “two John’s” make Heidi Fleiss look like Mother Teresa, (and I don’t mean Heinz).
It turns out that McCain Feingold did nothing more than force the DNC to become more creative in how they funneled [special interest] money into the election. Of the top 50 (527) and (501) political action organization, 37 of them were formed to funnel soft money to the Kerry/Edwards DNC campaign, 4 are “single issue” organizations, and 9 were recently established to support the Republican ticket in response to the onslaught of [soft money] Bush bashing.
Aside from an estimated $100 million in free help from Michael Moore’s shlockumentary, as of August 15, 2004, (according to IRS filings), Kerry/Edwards are the proud beneficiaries of roughly 88.5% of all [soft special interest money], some $186 million dollars thus far in the campaign, while Bush’s [special interest] funding amounts to a poultry 8.4%, a mere $17.5 million.
As if that isn’t bad enough, almost 18% of that huge DNC sludge fund is provided courtesy of three individuals, Peter Lewis, George Soros and Steven Bing, who have collectively spent a reported $33.4 million to date in an unprecedented attempt to single handedly overthrow the Bush administration by buying the Whitehouse for John Kerry.
Another 27% of DNC sludge money comes from Unions, most notably those Unions that represent government workers, in other words, those people who depend entirely upon the growth of government spending for their livelihood.
For the record, the only 527 of any concern to Kerry/Edwards, (Swift Boat Captains for Truth) doesn’t even come close to making the list. (Though that is likely to soon change)
We have heard the DNC’s calls to silence these Swift Boat Captains loud and clear, but we have not heard a peep from the DNC, John Kerry, John Edwards, John McCain or Russ Feingold, calling for the silencing of the 527’s that will funnel an unconscionable 300 to 500 million in soft money into the Kerry/Edwards campaign by election time. The reason is obvious….
Clearly, without [special interest soft money], there wouldn’t be a Kerry/Edwards ticket.
Fact is the Bush re-election campaign is funded almost entirely by individual voter contributions, mostly under $200. per, and within the $2000. maximum allowed by campaign laws, as it should be.
Fact is, John Kerry’s bid for the Whitehouse is almost entirely funded by [special interest soft money] via 527 and 501 organizations, funded predominantly by three shady individuals and a few unions representing mostly government employees.
Fact is, the single largest contributing sector for Kerry is trial lawyers, while the single largest group behind Bush is retirees.
Fact is, if Kerry and Edwards manage to buy the Whitehouse with a little help from their billionaire and Hollywood friends, it will mark the first time in American history that the Whitehouse has been bought entirely with [special interest soft money].
Not exactly what John McCain and Russ Feingold had in mind, or is it? I’m amazed how silent the two have been on the topic. Maybe they are still speechless from receiving such a knee in the groin from the DNC and the Kerry campaign.
What a wonderful campaign its generating too, 527 hate ads from both sides exhibiting unrestrained mud slinging bringing the campaign process to a whole new gutter level never before imagined.
What Kerry and Edwards fail to understand is, it’s not this mud slinging that will ultimately control the outcome of the election. No amount of special interest hate money can over-power the voice of the people when they decide to speak with their vote.
This election isn’t about John Kerry vs. George Bush. It’s about George Bush and the American electorate vs. Peter Lewis, George Soros and Steven Bing. These three men are attempting to use their billions to affect the outcome of an election that will affect almost 290 million American’s and the free world as we know it.
It’s about fat Union bosses and government employees dependent on bloated government growth vs. the American people who get the honor of picking up the tab for that growth.
War, terrorism, the economy, morality, jobs; they are all good reasons to vote.
But if this story won’t get you to the polls in November, nothing will!
JB Williams is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy. A hard hitting columnist, attacking the socialist cancer plaguing America today. He has a pragmatic “common Joe” approach to even the toughest issues facing our nation. |
