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Déjà Vu, All Over Again? posted by Burney Simpson on 07-24-2008 Election reform advocates in Illinois announced this week that at least 22 percent of the individual contributions to Gov. Rod Blagojevich were from businesses that had state contracts worth $50,000 or more. The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform reported ... Published in: Blagojevich | Clean Elections | illinois | Illinois Campaign for Political Reform | lobbyists Avella Goes for Clean Elections posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-24-2008 New York City Councilman Tony Avella is prepping a Clean Elections bill for the city council to consider that would go a step beyond the city's current matching funds program to address the influence of special interest money in city elections. Published in: Clean Elections | New York | New York City | Tony Avella Long Term Relationship posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-23-2008 It turns out that Maryland state Senator Ulysses Currie (D), who is being investigated for failing to report his outside employment as a consultant to a company on his official disclosure forms, may have been doing favors for the company since 2003. Shoppers Food Warehouse employed Currie as a consultant, but he never reported that relationship as required by Maryland state law. Published in: corruption | Maryland | Ulysses Currie Creative Commons
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It really p***es me off!!
Why do politicians wimp out and use the phrase "special interests influence" when what they should say is "corruption" as in...
"I think one of the key parts of our work is trying to eliminate special interest influence from our elections at all levels," she said.
This, of course, should read, "I think one of the key parts of our work is trying to eliminate corruption in our elections at all levels".
Which do you think is a more truthful statement?