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2010-02-16 Home Front: Politix
Congressional Black Caucus: Fund-Raising Anomalies
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Posted by lord garth 2010-02-16 09:41|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 .....it turned to a familiar roster of friends: corporate backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors, Coca-Cola and Altria, the nation's largest tobacco company.

If it were anyone else the word extortion might be used. Why don't we just refer to it as a sort of insurance premium.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-16 11:09||   2010-02-16 11:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I would be very interested to see what would happen to one of their "familiar roster of friends" if they said..."no".
And since when did the Times grow a set?
Posted by tu3031 2010-02-16 11:21||   2010-02-16 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors, Coca-Cola and Altria, the nation’s largest tobacco company.

Are you sure the BC isn't getting funds from Cuba? Oh, I forgot Cuba, being a communist paradise, doesn't have any money.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-02-16 18:14||   2010-02-16 18:14|| Front Page Top

#4 "In 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spent more on the caterer for its signature legislative dinner and conference -- nearly $700,000 for an event one organizer called "Hollywood on the Potomac" -- than it gave out in scholarships, federal tax records show." Well that's enlightening.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-02-16 22:31||   2010-02-16 22:31|| Front Page Top

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