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Subscribe to RSSNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign filed its final spending report, and it showed that the billionaire independent former Republican spent spent $109.2 million in 2009 -- for a less than 5-point victory over his Democratic opponent.
That means in three elections -- and we hope you're sitting down for this one -- Bloomberg's has spent $267.8 million:
2001: $74 million
2005: $84.6 million
2009: $109.2 million
The $109.2 million, by the way, is a record for a municipal election.
Alvin Greene, the embattled South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee, whose legitimacy has been questioned by his own party, won't be breaking any fundraising records.
He said he raised about $1,000, AP reports. (That would beat Roland Burris' punch line 2009 first quarter haul of $845.) Candidates do not have to file with the Federal Election Commission until they reach $5,000, per AP.
Sen. Jim DeMint, Greene's fall opponent, had more than $3.5 million cash on hand as of the May 31st.
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You know it's a very bad day when you can't find a candidate, in either party, who would be worse than Jim De Mint.
OOPs. I meant "CAN find a candidate" worse than Jim DeMint.
No kidding. I'm not a buyer of conspiracy theories but I still think there was something fishy about Greene's win. Just too weird. I don't buy what some experts said about the candidates listed in alphabetical order and his name was first as an explanation for his win. That doesn't make sense for a Senate seat. I can see where that might affect votes for judges, city counsel or school boards but even the most uninformed voter would recognize the other candidate's name just from TV ads and posters--Greene had no ads, raised no money, had no signs.
Considering that the Election Committee would Not investigate the fact that some 25 precincts showed more votes for Greene than there were registered voters in those precincts, yeah, something fishy was going on there and that fish is at Least 3 days dead, and stinks to high Heaven!! I guess that is why they have all of those old Diebold machines there in SC, makes it so much easier to pull off something like this!
Has anyone questioned how gullible we the public must be to believe the political TV ads? With millions being spent on producing these TV ads, I hope that we are smart enough to actually read up on and study the canidates positions instead of falling for who has the best/worst TV commercial!! Our vote is too important to let TV ads play such a key role in electing our officials.
go to factcheck.org - they have quite a few campaign TV Ads that they have debunked. You should see what they say about Meg Whitman's ad regarding Jerry Brown - every point is a LIE!
In less than 10 years that corrupt billionaire Bloomberg has wasted over $267 million to run for a rinky dink mayor's job? Obviously Corrupt Capitalist Bloomberg isn't paying enough income tax, time to restore the top two tax brackets Ronny Raygunz eliminated as well as the one Criminal Bush got rid of. Plus it's time to restore the capital gains tax rates to income tax rates because we've seen proof positive that these capital gains tax cut welfare for the rich and greedy Hedge Fund Managers didn't create the jobs they were promised to.
Most running for office literally plan to "buy that office", it is quite evident in our governor's race.
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I hope Al Greene could be Sen. Jim DeMint's "Waterloo". At least Greene would like to get jobs for the country. I just wish Al Greene had some arrows in his quiver to shoot down De Mint.
Tidbit: in South America there is a tribe with DeMint's last name because they'll all crazy. Ummm, I have to admit I think that tribe might be DeMint's ancestors.
In defense of Bloomberg, he does seem to do a good job for NYC from my Iowa view but I admit that on election night and the democrat who spent little money made the race "too close to call", I was happy because having personal money didn't seem to matter.
Their own personal millions is what bothers me about Whitman and Fiorina. Whitman spent $80 million of personal money for the primary, who knows what she's spending now. This would be an infringement on personal liberties but there should be limits on how much personal dollars can be spent to campaign to level the playing field. That much personal wealth to spend eliminates the often better qualified candidate who doesn't have $80 million personal cash to blow.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the Bloombergs of the world spend their campaign cash on schools, infrastructure & putting people to work?
It's silly season on the KS/MO border. Roy Blunt tells his bio, but conveniently ommits the 14 years he spent in DC. The true outsider-insider...
The Kansas race is getting so dirty, both Tiahart and Moran are looking like total idiots...
And when Nov. is over, we'll start all over with the 2012 race... Just shows me there are a few people in this country with WAY too much money, and nothing genuine to spend it on...
Billionaires don't spend $267 million for nothing. Bloomberg is benefiting financially from his post. Someone needs to do some digging. If we Californian's elect Meg, then she too will benefit financially from her office. No doubt about it. Spare me the good samaritan crap with these two pro business zelots. Hopefully Jerry Brown will make it. He leads with no commercials airing yet. Greene was a plant by Republicans or Tea Party of just one individual trying to prove a point. And he or she did prove the point that primary voters just vote party lines, nothing more. They don't pay attention until close to the general election.
Alvin Greene's victory in South Carolina is something that should not be allowed to just go away like that without being thoroughly investigated to establish the authenticity of it. Elections matter. If we did not learn a lesson from what happened in 2000 general elections where the loser was declared the winner through rigging then we need to learn from Greene's victory. Things like this make voters to lose confidence in the election process here in the USA. Election is not a child's game and there should be very harsh penalties imposed on any individuals especially election officials caught trying to rig any election.
There are some groups of people who know the short cuts to winning an election whether people vote for them or not. How each election machine or computer is programmed matters a lot. There are cases where the machine is deliberately programmed to register the ballot of a popular candidate as that of the unpopular one and vice-versa. Postal ballots are so easy to manipulate including absentee ballots by any official inclined to a particular party or candidate. Direct manipulation of ballot papers in the absence of independent observers or agents of all the parties/candidates at the polling stations is a common phenomenon in an election especially in a polling station that is within a particular party's stronghold. There are cases where ballot papers have been either marked in advance or after the polling station closes in favor of a particular candidate by those who have access to them. In some cases, well organized groups would even print fake ballot papers with the help of an insider.
American voters have a right to ensure that the election process is treated with the integrity that it deserves and that every vote cast is recorded properly and counted properly without any kind of manipulations whatsoever.
Alvin Greene's victory in South Carolina is something that should not be allowed to just go away like that without being thoroughly investigated to establish its authenticity. Elections matter. If we did not learn a lesson from what happened in 2000 general elections where the loser was declared the winner through rigging then we need to learn from Greene's victory. Things like this make voters to lose confidence in the election process here in the USA. Election is not a child's game and there should be very harsh penalties imposed on any individuals especially election officials caught trying to rig any election.
There are some groups of people who know the short cuts to winning an election whether people vote for them or not. How each election machine or computer is programmed matters a lot. There are cases where the machine is deliberately programmed to register the ballot of a popular candidate as that of the unpopular one and vice-versa. Postal ballots are so easy to manipulate including absentee ballots by any official inclined to a particular party or candidate. Direct manipulation of ballot papers in the absence of independent observers or agents of all the parties/candidates at the polling stations is a common phenomenon in an election especially in a polling station that is within a particular party's stronghold. There are cases where ballot papers have been either marked in advance or after the polling station closes in favor of a particular candidate by those who have access to them. In some cases, well organized groups would even print fake ballot papers with the help of an insider.
American voters have a right to ensure that the election process is treated with the integrity that it deserves and that every vote cast is recorded properly and counted properly without any kind of manipulations whatsoever.