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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 08:57 PM

OneAngryDemocrat (1,785 posts)

Bain Capital is largest NRCC donor

Source: The Washington Times

Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's former firm, was the top employer among donors to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in September, underscoring the extent to which Mr. Romney's associates in the financial sector are financing not just his presidential bid, but the gamut of Republican activities.

The NRCC raised $12 million last month, one-third of which came from corporate PACs and $1 million of which came from small donors giving $200 or less. The rest came from people giving up to $35,000 each to the party committee, including $4.5 million that was raised through a partnership with the Romney presidential campaign, Romney Victory.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/oct/16/bain-capital-largest-nrcc-donor/

Not only is Bain Capital bankrolling the death of my hometown, Freeport, Illinois, but Bain is also bankrolling our local GOP congressman's re-election and the negative ads he is running against his democratic party opposition.

If corporations were, indeed, "people", I know a ''person'' I'd like to put my hands around and throttle.

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Bain Capital is largest NRCC donor (Original post)	OneAngryDemocrat	Oct 2012	OP
Corporations are people too is just plain evil. Look at the filthy money in politics today.	hrmjustin	Oct 2012	#1
Time to	defacto7	Oct 2012	#2
Does it amaze anyone else that we are ahead, even with the billion dollars poured into the election?	progressivebydesign	Oct 2012	#3
No surprise	Smilo	Oct 2012	#4
I think we're beyond that.	EnviroBat	Oct 2012	#5
So Bain is the biggest NRCC donor & Tagg Romney is tied to some of the..	ProfessionalLeftist	Oct 2012	#6
Fuck. What is the connection between machines and that evil looking freak?	lonestarnot	Oct 2012	#9
Here you go	ProfessionalLeftist	Oct 2012	#16
Thank you!	lonestarnot	Oct 2012	#19
What is the ratio of Mormons to non-Mormons in Bain Capital's management and on its staff?	JDPriestly	Oct 2012	#15
Good question	peace frog	Oct 2012	#22
Just wondering how many Americans had to lose their jobs for Bain	Marie Marie	Oct 2012	#7
yup	renate	Oct 2012	#10
Grrrr.	progressoid	Oct 2012	#8
Alec I'll take 'Things that will shock no one' for $400 please	LynneSin	Oct 2012	#11
News of this used to mean something to Americans, but now---meh!	hue	Oct 2012	#12
hue, I don't think so	Duval	Oct 2012	#14
So they bought their pet the nomination?	Myrina	Oct 2012	#13
Only because of millions of $$ from Sheldon Adeleson, Kochs, and others	mountain grammy	Oct 2012	#17
Power-point to the People	lexw	Oct 2012	#18
In Italy Fascism and in Germany the Nazi Party using ultra-national and profoundly racist ideology	Ford_Prefect	Oct 2012	#20
I feel as though...	GTurck	Oct 2012	#21
This message was self-deleted by its author	MadDash	Oct 2012	#23
Since Bain is a person	Generic Other	Oct 2012	#24

Response to OneAngryDemocrat (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 08:58 PM

hrmjustin (9,026 posts)

1. Corporations are people too is just plain evil. Look at the filthy money in politics today.

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:15 PM

defacto7 (3,257 posts)

2. Time to

impeach some Supreme Court justices.

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:19 PM

progressivebydesign (19,363 posts)

3. Does it amaze anyone else that we are ahead, even with the billion dollars poured into the election?

I mean.. think about how much money the Right and Corporate America has poured into the races on behalf of the repubs. EVEN with all of that money, and the supreme court right wingers helping them out, they can't get a lead in the polls.

I want to see the right wing candidates bounced out on election day, so that I can tweet to that Koch-Sucker Rove... How'd that Crossroads money work out for ya????

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:22 PM

Smilo (1,886 posts)

4. No surprise

.......... they have wrought havoc in everything they have touched - but just think of the possibilities if they had their guy as Prez.

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:22 PM

EnviroBat (5,259 posts)

5. I think we're beyond that.

full blown revolution should be on our horizon.

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:37 PM

ProfessionalLeftist (4,982 posts)

6. So Bain is the biggest NRCC donor & Tagg Romney is tied to some of the..

...voting machines. Hmm....oh but I'm SURE there is nothing at all of impropriety going on here, is there?

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:41 PM

lonestarnot (71,133 posts)

9. Fuck. What is the connection between machines and that evil looking freak?

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Aside from the fact that he looks like a machine, you know what I mean.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:42 PM

ProfessionalLeftist (4,982 posts)

16. Here you go

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10021550023

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 10:06 PM

lonestarnot (71,133 posts)

19. Thank you!

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 03:28 PM

JDPriestly (37,749 posts)

15. What is the ratio of Mormons to non-Mormons in Bain Capital's management and on its staff?

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Fri Oct 19, 2012, 03:37 PM

peace frog (5,550 posts)

22. Good question

and one I'd like to know the answer to. The fact that there are religious fitness tests for employment is unconscionable imho, but real and happening as we speak. My daughter was a finalist candidate for a job with a hospital run by a church. It was legal for them to inquire about her religious beliefs, and ultimately she thinks she lost the job because she honestly stated has no religious affiliation, which was not OK with the interviewers. Jesus wouldn't recognize these people as his.

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:27 PM

Marie Marie (2,043 posts)

7. Just wondering how many Americans had to lose their jobs for Bain

to come up with this money.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:21 AM

renate (7,926 posts)

10. yup

Boy, when you think of it like that (which is to say, absolutely accurately), it's hard to even imagine how many families had their lives turned upside down so Bain could contribute all that money to get their political lackeys, and their boss, into government and make themselves even richer.

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Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:34 PM

progressoid (27,306 posts)

8. Grrrr.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:24 PM

LynneSin (89,793 posts)

11. Alec I'll take 'Things that will shock no one' for $400 please

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:11 PM

hue (2,543 posts)

12. News of this used to mean something to Americans, but now---meh!

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 03:28 PM

Duval (522 posts)

14. hue, I don't think so

I'm so damned angry, I'm losing my appetite! There are many of us really fired up over this. In NC there are more active Democrats than I've ever seen, and I'm over 65 and a female. Besides being actively involved and donating more than I ever have, I am scared silly. We truly need a stop to Corporate Media. Too many do not know the truth.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:56 PM

Myrina (8,924 posts)

13. So they bought their pet the nomination?

Why wouldnt it surprise me ??

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:46 PM

mountain grammy (1,599 posts)

17. Only because of millions of $$ from Sheldon Adeleson, Kochs, and others

do these right wing fringe candidates have a voice and an expensive soapbox to broadcast their radical and anti democratic ideas. If they had no backing, they would be standing on a real soapbox on a street corner sounding like the extremists they are. We must end the money in politics and send these idealogues back to the fringe. A few bizzilionalires want to rule the world, and they will stop at nothing...

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:09 PM

lexw (804 posts)

18. Power-point to the People

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Fri Oct 19, 2012, 02:35 AM

Ford_Prefect (251 posts)

20. In Italy Fascism and in Germany the Nazi Party using ultra-national and profoundly racist ideology

colluded with Bankers and Industrialists to steal the elections. Today we have the modern GOP drowning truth and the election process in a sea of money . Is there really any meaningful difference?

Can you imagine what horrors they will do if elected?

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Fri Oct 19, 2012, 07:21 AM

GTurck (729 posts)

21. I feel as though...

I am witnessing a crime and there is no one to tell to stop it. Are our oversight agencies so corrupted that they will not investigate this?

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Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:45 PM

Generic Other (20,300 posts)

24. Since Bain is a person

can he be given the death penalty?

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