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Corruption 
Tue Jan 17, 2012 at 15:40:08 PM MST
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I'm interested in campaign contributions made to Frank McNulty and any state board member from McGraw Hill or their affiliates.
Last year McNulty failed to move SJM11-0004 to the House floor for a vote. The memorial sent a clear message opposing No Child Left Behind, NCLB. SJM11-0004 was passed 27-3 in the Senate and adopted unanimously in the House Education Committee. Subversive efforts to expand CSAP and protect McGraw Hill profits have already begun. We'd like to connect the dots if anyone has got some time to do a little digging and PAC back checking.
Angela Engel
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Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 04:20:29 AM MST
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Got a simple little story for you today of a multinational corporation that wants to build a great big cement plant in North Carolina really, really, bad, and the local opposition to what appears to be a corrupt and distorted decision process.
Two local activists in particular have drawn the ire of Titan Cement, the Grecian corporation who seeks to build the plant-and because the Company doesn't like what the activists have been saying about what the impact of that plant will likely be or how the deal's going down...they're suing Kayne Darrell and Dr. David Hill, residents of North Carolina's New Hanover County, and the two folks who are doing the complaining the Company dislikes the most.
The Company further claims that they were slandered and defamed by the damaging statements that were uttered by the two at a county commissioners' meeting and that they have lost goodwill and the chance to do business with certain parties as a result of these statements.
But what if everything the Defendants said was not only true...but provably so-and the Company was, maybe...just looking to shut people up by sending teams of lawyers after them?
As I said, it's a simple story today-but it's a good one.
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Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 07:17:32 AM MST
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Fighting a counterinsurgency is a very hard and long proposition. It takes forever to bring the people of any nation involved in one out of fear of the insurgents and into a belief that they can rely on the government not just to protect them but to provide them with the kinds of freedoms and services that make it worth supporting.
This is the complicating factor in Afghanistan that does not see enough press in my not so humble opinion. The United States has an astounding war machine. We can pour resources for killing in like nothing seen previously. We can sort of pour resources in for rebuilding what is destroyed but it hardly matters is we can not change the correct impression that the Afghan government is corrupt to the core and really will not act in the best interest of the people but only its own best interest.
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Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 07:28:21 AM MST
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I was told by my more aggressively Lefty friends before the election that even if the Republicans won control or one or both houses of Congress it would not really be that different. I can even suppose that is true, from a 100,000 foot perspective. There will be legislation that we don't approve of, there will be fights about funding unemployment for the growing number of Americans who are becoming 99ers and other issues. It is to be hoped and expected that the President will hold the line on issues like abortion or the Affordable Care Act, but there will be some horse trading that none of us will enjoy because even though the Republicans are in large part insane, the work of the government has to continue.
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Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 06:12:55 AM MST
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In a tasty little bit of schadenfreude, Rep. Joe "I apologize" Barton of Texas has lost some $154,000 of his campaign funds that were invested in the stock market. A big part of that loss was due to the Representative's penchant for buying funds that go long on energy stocks. With BP's value falling, it took some of the investments into the tank. I guess when you are willing to supplicate yourself before a big oil company on national T.V. then you are going to stick with investing with them.
The thing that startled me about this story is that you can invest campaign funds at all. The intent of the donor is to give you money to fund your campaign, not for you to take risks with it in the stock market. I can understand the desire, when you are gathering a million dollars or more in a year to maximize the interest you can get, after all no political campaign ever has too much money. Still there is something really not right about being able to put it into the stock market.
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Fri Jul 09, 2010 at 14:35:33 PM MST
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Yesterday I wrote a diary about an email that surfaced from the Bennet campaign about how people who wanted the Senator's ear could contribute specific sums of money to have more time with him.
It attracted attention on state and national blogs, but the story also got quite a bit of traffic around the state and the country.
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