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The leader of the US Federal Election Commission, the agency charged with regulating the way political money is raised and spent, says she has largely given up hope of reining in abuses in the 2016 US presidential campaign, which could generate a record $10 billion in spending.
“The likelihood of the laws being enforced is slim,” Ann M. Ravel, the chairwoman, said in an interview. “I never want to give up, but I’m not under any illusions. People think the F.E.C. is dysfunctional. It’s worse than dysfunctional.”
Her unusually frank assessment reflects a worsening stalemate among the agency’s six commissioners. They are perpetually locked in 3-to-3 ties along party lines on key votes because of a fundamental disagreement over the mandate of the commission, which was created 40 years ago in response to the political corruption of Watergate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @10:18PM
In the first 24 hours after Bernie's announcement, donations to his campaign topped $1.5M.
The average donation was $43.54.
Unlike the 4 Koch brothers (trust fund babies) who inherited millions, the working class wealth of the (ethnically Jewish) Soros family was destroyed by the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
They each had to start from zero after WWII.
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Wednesday May 06 2015, @12:40AM
Soros family was destroyed by the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
Oh no you didn't. You DO NOT get to play the victim card for George Soros without including that he was a goddamned NAZI collaborator. Google it, 60 Minutes even did a piece on it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:22PM
Oh no you didn't. You DO NOT get to play the victim card for George Soros without including that he was a goddamned NAZI collaborator. Google it, 60 Minutes even did a piece on it.
Thanks. I just did. It is not anything like you made it out to be. Given who you are, that should come as no surprise.
He was 14 years old pretending to be the (christian) godson of a nazi in order to be protected from the other nazis. His nazi protector made him help confiscate property from jews. You call that collaboration, I call that child abuse.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:44AM
In the first 24 hours after Bernie's announcement, donations to his campaign topped $1.5M. The average donation was $43.54.
Who did they come from? I don't trust anything that doesn't have a documented source for the donation and a million undocumented small donations can more easily come from a single rich source than a million poor ones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @01:26PM
gewg money has permeated all levels, to pretend 'your guy' is better than the other guy is ignoring facts at best and being outright dishonest at worst.
You are a good example of a 'cheerleader'. Someone who does not have a lot of power but will vote party line. Because they have somehow* convinced themselves that 'the other team is a bunch of knuckle dragging twits' (which may be true) while ignoring your own 'knuckle dragging twits'. In fact you use childish name calling to belittle the other team.
*usually by selectively reading particular things that tweak their pleasure centers in their brain and does not challenge them to say 'what if I am wrong'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc [youtube.com]
To somehow pretend that ~2 billion per person to elect a president is somehow sane, is pitiful. Why do you think the 24/7 news stations are on about it all the time? Who do you think their customer is? It is the political class (we are the product 'eyeballs' being sold). They are the ones selling air time. It is classic marketing 101. See an opportunity, create demand, get paid. In this case they create demand by using their very stations to whip up into a frenzy the very people they should be informing. The frenzy allows them to sell an ad space time slot for 1.5 million instead of 10k. This is the news stations pay day. It is like the stores around Thanksgiving and black friday. It is basically 0.01%rs tossing 10%rs a bone.
I have said it time and time again gewg. YOU CAN DO BETTER. You seem smart and sharp. But you take a very narrow view of the world. I am also sorry to tell you you have been tricked and manipulated into your opinions. I have the same issue with my party. It is very hard to tell the difference between opinion pieces and real news. Sometimes they are both. That is what they are using this money for. To trick and manipulate us. It all rolls back to money. Both sides have sugar daddies. To pretend otherwise is silly.
The stalemate is designed in. Notice there is no other parties involved? Because the two major parties have gerrymandered (named after a democrat) the districts to make sure it stays that way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @10:37PM
you take a very narrow view of the world
Nope. My view is the majority view.
The supermajority view, in fact. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [firedoglake.com]
(The latest numbers in these are from the Summer of 2011 but USAians have continued their embrace of and shift toward of those supermajority positions.)
It's YOU who has the marginal views. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [popularresistance.org]
I really shouldn't expect any more awareness out of someone who obviously gets his "information" from Lamestream Media.
-- gewg_