California Superdelegate Promises Obama or Hillary Vote for $20 million

TexasT · 05-09-2008, 07:14 PM

Yahoo!

Don't really know what to think about this...it's super shady.

just_a_car · 05-09-2008, 07:52 PM

Wait, I thought our political process was free from corruption and bribery!?

...oh, sorry, lost my bearing for a second; nevermind.

nathangdad · 05-09-2008, 11:47 PM

. . . . goes on that is so much more subtle.
Promises for jobs, business connections, future government
positions in the next administration are just some of
the things that political conventions have produced.

It is so often a dirty business of future pledges for
delivery of power in the present.

mitch_mckee · 05-09-2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasT

Yahoo!

Don't really know what to think about this...it's super shady.

If the Repubs did this, the Demwits would scream bloody murder.

GlockMeister · 05-10-2008, 01:55 AM

Hope it comes back and hurts both that guy and the Dem. party itself.

mitch_mckee · 05-10-2008, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by GlockMeister

Hope it comes back and hurts both that guy and the Dem. party itself.

Dems don' t care about such moral decisions. After all, it's just a shade of grey.

GlockMeister · 05-10-2008, 02:53 AM

I'm finding the ones that vote for them don't or must not either?

TexasT · 05-10-2008, 10:21 AM

That delegate is totally out of line. He should give O/H his vote under the premise that he thinks they will be best for the country, not who will give him money to essentially keep him in office. That's politics for you.

TXplt · 05-10-2008, 03:05 PM

Guess buying votes isn't illegal ?

LarryO1970 · 05-10-2008, 03:22 PM

... and where is the ethics committee? Oh wait, they've been bought out too, probably with George Soros's money ... especially given the party involved.

mitch_mckee · 05-10-2008, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TXplt

Guess buying votes isn't illegal ?

Buying votes and allowing the dead to vote for decades is an old Demo-rat tradition.

troy2000 · 05-10-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by LarryO1970

... and where is the ethics committee? Oh wait, they've been bought out too, probably with George Soros's money ... especially given the party involved.

Oh please...

mitch_mckee · 05-10-2008, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by troy2000

Oh please...

If you insist. George Soros is one of the major contibutors of all things liberal in America, esp the Demo-rat party. (and you probably wonder why gun owners despise liberals so much.)

George Soros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gun control

Directly and through his organization Open Society Institute (OSI), he has funded various gun control organizations, such as the Tides Foundation, the HELP Network and SAFE Colorado. He and seven friends founded their own political committee — Campaign for a Progressive Future — and spent $2 million on political activities in 2000, including providing the prime financial backing for the Million Mom March. OSI has supported UN efforts to create international gun control regulations and has singled out the United States for failing to go along with other countries on national gun control measures.[

Big Dog · 05-10-2008, 04:20 PM

That old saying is so true....

"We have the best politicians money can buy!"

Windwalker · 05-10-2008, 04:31 PM

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Sorry Big Dog, when I started typing your post wasn't there. Wasn't trying to steal your comment.

LarryO1970 · 05-10-2008, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by troy2000

Oh please...

Figures you'd be defending George Soros.

JohnBlaze · 05-10-2008, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TXplt

Guess buying votes isn't illegal ?

Didn't some guy get arrested last election for selling his vote on ebay?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mitch_mckee

Buying votes and allowing the dead to vote for decades is an old Demo-rat tradition.

I'm a republican myself, but there's plenty of skeletons hanging in the old republican closet as well, Mitch. Want me to name a few?

found the article

Quote:

Authorities halt man's eBay offer to sell vote
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — It took authorities just 12 hours to hear about and stop a man's eBay offer to sell his vote.
James Pengov, 36, of Elyria, said he was hoping to land enough money from selling his vote to pay medical bills.
"Up for auction is MY VOTE!," said Pengov's Aug. 19 posting on the online marketplace. The item, advertised as "Presidential Vote for Sale," with a starting bid of $50, was yanked 12 hours after it was posted.
"Simply tell me who to vote for, after paying the auction, and it will be so," his listing said. "If you care, buy my vote and you will have twice the power in the upcoming election!!!!"
Pengov said he didn't know that selling a vote was illegal.
The fraud unit of the California secretary of state's office, which has been alerted to votes for sale on eBay in previous elections, came across the posting and notified Ohio authorities.
Pengov told buyers he generally votes Republican, but expressed dissatisfaction with both parties.
Hani Durzy, eBay spokesman, said the online auction service screens the 29 million listings for violations of its policies, but because 3.5 million are added daily, it relies on outside help to catch inappropriate listings.

patrick70 · 05-12-2008, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by troy2000

Oh please...

I would'nt be suprised at all.

I don't think enough people read between the lines.

mitch_mckee · 05-12-2008, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnBlaze

Didn't some guy get arrested last election for selling his vote on ebay?

I'm a republican myself, but there's plenty of skeletons hanging in the old republican closet as well, Mitch. Want me to name a few?

found the article

Go for it.

(1) Be sure to provide cites so that one might
(2) Try to differential between Repubs who do bad, and get punished, and those that get off.

Demo-rats don't punish their politicians. They let them stay in office , like Teddy and Slick Willie.

troy2000 · 05-17-2008, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by LarryO1970

Figures you'd be defending George Soros.

Larry, that's complete nonsense and you know it. I'm not "defending George Soros," I'm dumping on people who make nonsensical claims about ethics committees being "bought out." And they deserve it.

What ethics committee, for starters? And where is the slightest evidence that said mysterious ethics committee has been "bought out?" It's mudslinging, pure and simple.

I've said it before: it's despicable to declare open season on people and slander them endlessly with lies or unproven allegations, simply because you don't like them. There are still those few of us out here who think the truth is important.

05-09-2008, 07:14 PM	#1
TexasT No Whining Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Somewhere. Posts: 4,951 Blog Entries: 17	California Superdelegate Promises Obama or Hillary Vote for $20 million Yahoo! Don't really know what to think about this...it's super shady. __________________ I walk like this because I can back it up.

05-09-2008, 07:52 PM	#2
just_a_car Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Edmonds, WA Posts: 3,639	Wait, I thought our political process was free from corruption and bribery!? ...oh, sorry, lost my bearing for a second; nevermind. __________________

05-09-2008, 11:47 PM	#3
nathangdad Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,925	All sorts of stuff . . . . . . . . goes on that is so much more subtle. Promises for jobs, business connections, future government positions in the next administration are just some of the things that political conventions have produced. It is so often a dirty business of future pledges for delivery of power in the present.

05-10-2008, 01:55 AM	#5
GlockMeister Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 6,292	Hope it comes back and hurts both that guy and the Dem. party itself. __________________ I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6!

05-10-2008, 02:53 AM	#7
GlockMeister Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 6,292	I'm finding the ones that vote for them don't or must not either? __________________ I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6!

05-10-2008, 10:21 AM	#8
TexasT No Whining Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Somewhere. Posts: 4,951 Blog Entries: 17	That delegate is totally out of line. He should give O/H his vote under the premise that he thinks they will be best for the country, not who will give him money to essentially keep him in office. That's politics for you. __________________ I walk like this because I can back it up.

05-10-2008, 03:05 PM	#9
TXplt Conservative in Exile Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 3,194 Images: 4 Blog Entries: 2	Guess buying votes isn't illegal ? __________________ Old fighter pilots never die.....They just wind up in Texas

05-10-2008, 03:22 PM	#10
LarryO1970 "Blazing Saddles" GOV Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Johnson Creek, WI Posts: 3,923	... and where is the ethics committee? Oh wait, they've been bought out too, probably with George Soros's money ... especially given the party involved. __________________ If anybody asks, it must have been the "trigger actuator nut".....

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05-10-2008, 04:31 PM	#15
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