It found that the largest donor to legislative candidates was Dan and Farris Wilks and their wives, who all list Texas as home. The group donated to more than 70 candidates, all Republicans, and generally gave the maximum contribution allowed by law to legislative candidates, $160 for a general election. The total exceeded $51,000.
Let's see; if the brothers and their wives each donate a whopping $160 to a given candidate...lick end of pencil...stick tongue out of side of mouth in concentration...erase...carry the two...that's $640 bucks! Wow! That should buy LOTS of influence in the state house, doncha think?
I wonder how all that cash stacks up to Spooky Dude's contributions. Or union contributions.
/clamping hand over mouth, searching the sky for Obamadrone equipped with laser-guided blasphemy rockets...
Read the rest here.
And, way down in the next to last paragraph:
ReplyDelete"The rankings change if the list is expanded to include money given to all legislative candidates, whether they won or lost. U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' Glacier PAC sprinkled $11,350 to Democratic legislative candidates. That was followed by the medical and contractors associations, then the Wilkses."
Apparently the reporter thinks that Montana legislators are among the cheapest of political prostitutes. But only if they are Republican, and successful.
The comments for the article are absurd, too. Hard to fathom Montanans making such vapid and empty-headed comments.
Yeah, I stay away from the comments. There are some idiotic people infesting the great state of Montana.
DeleteYou do realize that conservative Republicans are supposed to just shut up and go live in a cave -- after the give all of their money to the government, of course.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't forgotten than, have you? Hmmmm?
Have you all been hearing the latest scuttlebutt about John Brennan being a Muslim convert? I generally don't pay a whole lot of attention to the rumor mill, but this one seems to have legs.
ReplyDeleteWhether he is or he isn't, he gives me the creeps, even more than Ketchup Kerry and UpChuck Hagel.