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Old 06-06-12, 06:34 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie View Post
Elections can be bought. What a wonderful world that the Citizens United decision has brought us.
Indeed an election can be "bought" - Big Labor Unions - both public and private - paid lots and lots of money to buy the organization that got the recall going. After all - getting all those people to go door to door and get signatures - or sign them with made up names themselves - isn't cheap. Bussing in union members from out of state so they can have near riots in the state capital building doesn't come cheap.

Big labor paid for the game - then got its clock cleaned.

You can "buy" an election - but you can't buy the results.
However, some will try to stuff the ballot box. No comment on the Madison turnout, huh?

For the record though - I agree with you on the Citizens United decision. Anything that isn't an individual should not be giving money. Period.
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