Reflections From a Murky Pond

“Hillary-ian” or some more grammar-positive version thereof should be added to the lexicon as an adjective denoting unparallelled and/or unrivaled hypocrisy and chutzpah.

It’s My Turn! And I Am A Vagina!

At her first official campaign event, held at Kirkwood Community College in Monticello, ID, Clinton identified campaign finance reform as one of several pillars of her 2016 presidential campaign.

We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all — even if it takes a constitutional amendment.

— Hillary Clinton

She proclaimed this mere days after announcing her latest candidacy and stating that she was looking to raise as much as $2.5 billion to fund her latest bid to be POTUS.

To put that in perspective and context, in 2008 Obama spent $748 million vs McCain’s $352 million, and in 2012 Obama spent $722 million vs. Romney’s $450 million. Indeed, the totals expenditures by all candidates were approximately $1.68 billion and $1.33 billion respectively in the total course of the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.

So Hillary is looking to garner and spend in this election approximately 188% of the money that all the candidates together spent in the last presidential election.

But don’t worry! Hillary, once she’s had her turn, is committed to campaign finance reform and getting money out of politics.

Tags: 2016 Elections | America | Campaign Finances | Clinton | Democrats | FEC | Hillary | Hypocrisy | Idaho | Money | PACs

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Since America is now in yet another election year, one can expect various cries for campaign finance reform to resound across our divided land. Most of the screaming will come from Liberals and Progressives who will chant, “Koch Brothers! Koch Brothers! Koch Brothers!” while wondering where they left their torches and pitchforks.

The unruly and largely ineffective mobs of Leftists truly hate the Koch Brothers and stridently declaim about how they’ve bought and paid for so many politicians.

Yet, as corporations go, the Koch Brothers’ campaign contributions pale in comparison to others’.

Over the 23 year span between 1989 and 2012 Koch Industries donated just under $10,000,000 to political campaigns. That’s a fairly significant amount. Yet it is only a fraction of what the larger labor unions contributed to political campaigns during the same time period.

• The American Federation of Teachers  paid 3.19 times as much;
• The Laborers Union paid 3.22 times as much;
• The Int. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers paid 3.44 times as much;
• The National Education Association paid 3.70 times as much;
• The SEIU paid 3.78 times as much and;
• The AFSCME paid 4.66 times as much.

Indeed, the largest class of expenditures by labor unions is political spending, both direct campaign contributions and other forms of a political backing such as television commercials. Yet, of course, Americans will never hear the Liberals and Progressives bemoan that. Quite the contrary, those are corporations that they laud for “purchasing” politicians.

What even more sad than the by now utterly expected hypocrisy of the Left is the fact that Americans allow them to get away with it. Instead of allow them to shape the conversation as they please, Americans should be in their faces hammering them mercilessly with the truth about campaign contributions.

Tags: 2014 Elections | America | Campaign Finances | Corporations | Koch Brothers | Labor Unions | Leftists | Liberals | Politics | Progressives

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