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Kelly Ayotte: The Best Senator Foreign Money Can Buy

by: Dean Barker

Fri Oct 15, 2010 at 20:54:04 PM EDT
The oddly named US Chamber of Commerce, in addition to taking money form foreign companies that specialize in outsourcing, recently dumped one million dollars into smearing Paul Hodes.
Dean Barker :: Kelly Ayotte: The Best Senator Foreign Money Can Buy
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Kelly Ayotte: The Best Senator Foreign Money Can Buy | 6 comments
There are many (4.00 / 1)
local chambers who make sure that people in their communities know that they are not affiliated with the US Chamber.  

I just can't imagine the constant barrage of negative ads is doing them a lot of good, except discouraging some from voting.  That's our job to get them to come out.  

Happy Dems doing visibilities, having a good time, waving and smiling, can really change a mood.

I Think You're Right Lucy... (0.00 / 0)
...the money has been spent in the past; it's just so much more pervasive this time because more is at stake.   Our response has to be to continue to educate people, ask the media to do the same in looking into what the ads actually say, and get our vote out.  

No matter what "reforms" we'll make, even if we're able to adopt Granny D's voluntary public funding of campaigns (which a Legislative Task Force is hard at work finalizing [we're having a meeting later this month to write the bill] so that people can run for office without raising lots of private funds) the spending will continue even worse in future years.  

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Lobbyists (4.00 / 1)
Has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce registered as a lobbyist for foreign interests?

Just asking?

It's time (0.00 / 0)
for the local Chambers to change their name so that they'll no longer be connected with this nasty corporate lobbyist.
They enable the national chamber to hide behind their good name. (0.00 / 0)
It has gotten to the point where if the local chambers dont either change their name or force the national to change its name or policies, democratics with businesses should withdraw and democratic consumers should spend their money elsewhere.

Anyone active in a local chamber should be seeking to either bring about fundamental change or they should stop enabling evil, which is what the status quo does. Whether or not the local chamber issues a statement every two years distancing themselves, the mass of people still rightly think that these ads are coming from the nice people with whom they do business.

 

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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They enable the national chamber to hide behind their good name. (0.00 / 0)
It has gotten to the point where if the local chambers dont either change their name or force the national to change its name or policies, democratics with businesses should withdraw and democratic consumers should spend their money elsewhere.

Anyone active in a local chamber should be seeking to either bring about fundamental change or they should stop enabling evil, which is what the status quo does. Whether or not the local chamber issues a statement every two years distancing themselves, the mass of people still rightly think that these ads are coming from the nice people with whom they do business.

 

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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