Sad state of affairs in Georgia.  Record setting spending for a Congressional seat - mostly from out of state donors...

http://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-special-election-between-handel-145105756.html

Who's in your wallet?

The question begs.....
Why invest so much money without expecting it to pay dividends?
Beliefs, as in societal preferences, is noble, I guess, but is that alone enough to buy?

Power, money, the two feed off of each other, yet together form a force like a tornado that has the capacity to destroy anything in its path.

Where does all this money used in campaigning go?
To those enitites that report the "news".

Gee, if I had a commodity and could convince others that they needed it, and it was in short supply, and getting more scarce....
I could manipulate wealth right to my doorstep.

raydawg wrote on 06/19/17 at 10:14:40:


Thus, the corporatism we now have in the US.  But yeah, corporations are people, right?  smh

WebsterMark wrote on 06/19/17 at 10:46:01:


Chicken and egg argument.

Who's more corrupt, the buyers or the sellers?

Our president actually boasted about how he "bought politicians".  Does that make it right?

An argument could be made on both sides - you can't have corruption with only one...

As to the ROI on legalized bribery?  There's no question - it pays off massively.  Look at the banks as just one of many huge "dividends".

WebsterMark wrote on 06/19/17 at 11:14:25:


Why?

If you're conspiring to buy a candidate, why are you not as guilty?

If a thief robs a bank and has a guy on the inside helping him - who is "more guilty"?

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/19/17 at 11:30:48:


Like I said - it goes both ways.  The huge corporations that buy their tax breaks are just as guilty as the ones that propose the tax breaks.

They are equally corrupt.  They are equally to blame.

Jog is correct.

Whose more guilty? The pusher preying on the addicted user or the user?

You're motives behind this argument are pretty transparent.

By the way, there's a bit more to this story than on the original link:

The Democratic candidate, Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old documentary-film producer and former congressional aide, has drawn national attention and managed to raise an incredible $23.6 million, largely from donors outside of the district and state.

But in money raised, Ossoff has blown Handel out of the water — thanks in part to the Golden State.

Between March 29 and May 31, Ossoff reported receiving 7,218 donations from California, dwarfing the 808 donations he received from Georgia. In the nine Bay Area counties alone, he received 3,063 donations in the same time period. (Those are only a fraction of his total donations, as he doesn’t have to report donations from people who give less than $200 in total.)

Overall, he reported receiving $456,296.03 from California — and $220,532.10 from the Bay Area — versus just $228,474.44 from Georgia.


Not to mention a cool million from a national liberal website with no special ties to Georgia. The last special election that the Dems painted as a second election against Trump, Kansas, didn't turn out too well for them. Way more money spent on this one.