AgXphoto.info
A recent report released by lobbyists at the non-profit organization Public Citizen on their website Citizen.org lists contributions to recent political campaigns.
The report concentrates on funds which were from undisclosed sources outside of a candidate's state.
Over $1,430,000 (one million four hundred thirty thousand dollars') worth of campaign contributions, from undisclosed sources outside of Tennessee, went mainly into two of Tennessee's lawmakers' campaigns.
US Representatives-elect Scott Desjarlais($951,445) and Steve Fincher ($482,309) are listed among the nations' top recipients of contributions whose sources were from outside the candidates' state, but of an undisclosed origin.
Desjarlais Asks Tennessee for Yet More Money
Desjarlais, who is listed as receiving close to one million dollars in unnamed outside support ($951,445), had an ad on his website specifically asking voters to "Help Us Keep This Ad on the Air by Clicking Here!"
The ad featured the spoken and written words, "stop spending on wasteful bailouts!"
The hyperlink associated with supporting the ad went to a secure section of the website listed under the subdirectory of "contribute."
Desjarlais' campaign was headquartered in Jasper. Fincher's campaign headquarters had a Jackson, TN address.
"Low Funds" and "No Funds" Races Also Listed
US Representative-elect Diane Black ($1,830) also received outside the state funding from undisclosed sources, but at less than two thousand dollars' worth of influence.
US Representative-elect "Chuck" Fleischmann (TN-3: Chattanooga-area), who raced against John Wolfe, is listed as --not-- receiving funds ($0) from undisclosed sources outside the state.
Comparable to Governor's Race Dollars
Also listed were approximately $18 million dollars worth of undisclosed, outside-their-state funds of unknown origin which were applied to six governors' races across the US.
Tennessee's governor's race was not listed among those (IL, PA, WI, AR, IN, and $0 spent in North Dakota) which were associated with a partisan change in power.
Some of the amounts listed as being spent on Tennessee's US Representatives are comparable to the dollar values discussed on a recent episode of WTCI (PBS) "Tennessee Insider" as being an influential amount in upcoming governor's elections.
In Season 4, Episode 29 of "Tennessee Insider" panelists discussed how the spending of millions of dollars in advertising had become a practical requirement for running for governor.
That episode shows how this year's Governor's election campaigns already saw candidates concentrating their advertising on selected areas of the state. Bill Haslam, who later on became Tennessee's Governor-elect, was noted as having the most money to spend on advertising.
Managing equity arguably led to some candidates mutually conceding that their opponents were strong in their respective "home" areas. This led to a set of conditions in which the panelists discussed that it was plausible to conclude certain large areas (Nashville, mainly) would become the battleground between two candidates who had the most money to spend.
In these money-dumping schemes of purchasing political advertising, large swaths of the state's votes end up being regarded as a foregone conclusion.
Many of "Tennesse Insider"'s panelists predictions did turn out to be observable realities.
Given the over one million dollar amount listed as buying influence in campaign advertising for Desjarlais and Finch, above, it's demonstrable that similar sums could be applied to outright buy a future Tennessee governor by funding his campaign.
Look to AgXphoto.info's SSL site for updates and follow-up reports.
# # #
References:
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Outside-Job-Report-20101103.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/outside-job
Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003
http://wtcitv.org/video/insider/season-4-episode-29
http://www.scottdesjarlais.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWki46PRR3k
http://stephenfincher.org/
AgXphoto.info on SSL:
https://guest:agxphoto@www.agxphoto.info
or logon to https://www.agxphoto.info
and manually enter username: guest password:agxphoto.
# # #
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment