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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2010 => Topic started by: Chris_ on October 20, 2010, 10:14:11 AM
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Barney Frank gives $200K to his campaign (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43860.html)
A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday.
Frank, a 15-term lawmaker from Newton, Mass., raised $316,644 last quarter and reported more than $1 million on hand with no debts.
His campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Politico (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43860.html#ixzz12ud5e8ly)
You don't think he's worried, do you?
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:lmao: I laugh now.. Just the thought of him worrying is great entertainment. By the way was this legal, not that it would matter?
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:lmao: I laugh now.. Just the thought of him worrying is great entertainment. By the way was this legal, not that it would matter?
Sure it's legal. Candidates can loan/donate as much money to their own campaign as they want. I think Meg Whitman in CA has funded herself to the tune of nearly $100 million.
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Sure it's legal. Candidates can loan/donate as much money to their own campaign as they want. I think Meg Whitman in CA has funded herself to the tune of nearly $100 million.
yep. sometimes it's even funny. jacques kerry mortgaged his half of his wife's house so he could float his campaign a loan during the 2004 primaries. his competition was howard dean, john edwards, and dennis kookspinach, for cryin' out loud. and for his trouble, he got to deliver a really shitty concession speech.
. . . which reminds me, his 2004 campaign may still be in debt.
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Sure it's legal. Candidates can loan/donate as much money to their own campaign as they want. I think Meg Whitman in CA has funded herself to the tune of nearly $100 million.
Musing to self - can power be so important, so critical, so necessary to one's well being that it's worth that kind of money?
People who seek that kind of influence/power at those kinds of prices can't be right in the head. IIRC, Ah-nuld worked for a buck a year.
What kind of person goes through that much bullshit just to hang the tag of "Governor" or "Senator" in front of their name?
:whatever:
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Musing to self - can power be so important, so critical, so necessary to one's well being that it's worth that kind of money?
People who seek that kind of influence/power at those kinds of prices can't be right in the head. IIRC, Ah-nuld worked for a buck a year.
What kind of person goes through that much bullshit just to hang the tag of "Governor" or "Senator" in front of their name?
:whatever:
I don't know, but maybe a person that truly believes in their ideals?
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I don't know, but maybe a person that truly believes in their ideals?
Interesting thought, but as cynical as I am, I think a person who is dumb naive idealistic enough to want to pony up that kind of money for an opportunity to sign on as captain of the Titanic (another word for California), I think that person has a screw loose.
Perhaps they've got money to burn. Bully for them. I can think of 100 million better things to do with that kind of money rather than spend it on TV attack ads, campaign managers, office space, and bumper stickers.
I would expect young people to be that kind of idealistic. Meg Whitman ain't no spring chicken.
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I think it is the power. The power trumps the money for them.
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Well, one thing's for sure, if nobody with a vision wants to go all in on that one like she has, and just lets the moonbat Dems take the easy win they get without that kind of media buying power, California is on an express train to total default and bankruptcy. Not that even a sound Governor can necessarily pull them out at this point, given the total trainwreck of special interests, porkbarrel deals, and backscratching that makes up their legislative branch. The chances of pulling it out are zero with Moonbeam in charge, though.
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Meg had better win that one, and I think she still can.
Yeah, it's legal to give yourself money for your own campaign, but to do so this late indicates you could be in big trouble in your re-election bid. Bwarney is notoriously tight with a dollar, among other things, and they say he's actually been acting like a non-jerk in the last few weeks. Yep, he's in trouble - that district he's in went for Scott Brown last year, and Sean Bielat is proving to be no pushover.
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Bwarney is notoriously tight with a dollar
His dollars, maybe. Yours and mine? Not so much.
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Where'd he get the money from, Fannie and Freddie?!? lol You know, being how sound and fundamental they are. ::) ::) :whatever:
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Where'd he get the money from, Fannie and Freddie?!? lol You know, being how sound and fundamental they are. ::) ::) :whatever:
You are treading dangerous ground here. Bawney using Fannie to raise money ?? Freddie pitching in ?? Oh dear, what will his latest steady Jim (at the) Ready have to say about all this?? What ever happened to Hot Bottoms? Bawney sure 'gets around'.
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His dollars, maybe. Yours and mine? Not so much.
What does he care it is not like he cares what happens to the "little" people
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Bielat ad making sport of Bawney. Definitely worth a gander. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/10/new_bielat_ad_s.html
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Bielat ad making sport of Bawney. Definitely worth a gander. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/10/new_bielat_ad_s.html
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbNGnvBR7k[/youtube]
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I just saw my very first Bawney Frank ad. He really must be looking at bad internals. It was a retrospective poor me type ad, how hard mom and pop struggled to get him where he is today. How now he works for the people.
Gee I wonder why he didn't just list all the numerous studs he has been associated with. Bet that would have really made mom an pop proud.
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I have never seen one of Bawney's ads on the Fox station (WFXT).
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I just saw my very first Bawney Frank ad. He really must be looking at bad internals. It was a retrospective poor me type ad, how hard mom and pop struggled, to get him where he is today and how now he works for the people.
Gee I wonder why he didn't just list all the numerous studs he has been associated with. Bet that would have really made mom an pop proud.
Yeah, heading up Washingtons best house of male prostitution.
....and he sucked his way to the top....or bottom...which is he?
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Yeah, heading up Washingtons best house of male prostitution.
....and he sucked his way to the top....or bottom...which is he?
On that issue, I'd prefer to stay ignorant.
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How gay he is really isn't important, and I will give him that in a patrician, Kennedy-esque way he really does care about '"The little people" (At least as long as they stay loyally on Marse Donk's plantation and don't start asking embarassing questions), what I DO have a huge problem with is his whole vast failure of judgment in intervening to prevent any sanity in the government-insured mortgage loan machine.
I can actually see why all the mortgage derivative-based securities (For want of a better term, the tertiary mortgage market) would have been A-rated at least as they were first conceived and sold, despite the F-rating of 1/3 of the mortgages in them (If anyone had bothered to look at them, but of course that isn't how the secondary mortgage market worked, and the securitization in the tertiary market simply passed on the thundering indifference of the secondary market), since the US government was in effect a surety on them, so to the packager it was only the Government, not the packager, lender, or derivative buyer, that bore the risk.
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I just saw my very first Bawney Frank ad. He really must be looking at bad internals. It was a retrospective poor me type ad, how hard mom and pop struggled to get him where he is today. How now he works for the people.
Gee I wonder why he didn't just list all the numerous studs he has been associated with. Bet that would have really made mom an pop proud.
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I have never seen one of Bawney's ads on the Fox station (WFXT).
Come on, who do you think raised him to become the [man] he is today.
Were I to have just one child and they were anything like this Frank, when they grew up I would have but 2 choices in life, move away and change my name or pretend to be oh so proud of the monster.
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Come on, who do you think raised him to become the [man] he is today.
Were I to have just one child and they were anything like this Frank, when they grew up I would have but 2 choices in life, move away and change my name or pretend to be oh so proud of the monster.
So what did you think of his sister when she served in the Clinton administration??
Father: Sam Frank
Mother: Elsie Golush
Sister: Ann Lewis
Slept with: Stephen L. Gobie (prostitute)
Boyfriend: Herbert Moses (together 1987-98)
Boyfriend: Sergio Pombo (together 1998-mid 2000s)
Boyfriend: James Ready (together 2007-)
http://www.nndb.com/people/140/000024068/