WI-“I don’t have to explain it any further to someone like you” he told reporter.

[iwishiwas]

Johnson replaced Russ Feingold in WI. damm. what a snot!




http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/06/johnsons-company-pay-him-10-million.html

Friday, June 24, 2011

Johnson’s Company gave him a $10 million Compensation Package, just over the $9 million he paid out of pocket to buy his Senate seat. “I don’t have to explain it any further to someone like you” he told reporter.


The new political aristocracy is using their own big money in a legal, but clever way, to scam the system and win elections. Leave it to accountant CEO and now senator Ron Johnson to cheat his way to the top, in a completely lawful but snake like way.

jsonline-Dan Bice: After dropping nearly $9 million from his own pocket to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, Ron Johnson didn't have to feel the pain for very long … Johnson's plastics company paid him $10 million in deferred compensation shortly before he was sworn in as Wisconsin's junior senator, according to his latest financial disclosure report.

The first-term Republican declined to say how his Oshkosh firm, Pacur, came up with a figure that so closely mirrored the amount he personally put into his campaign fund.

[BanzaiBonnie]

1. They're really showing their hands blatantly now

Bush said his followers were the "haves and have mores". Now the corporations are flat out buyng the seats of politicians, it's out in the open.


Bice is showing his disdain for the "little people". It's the Leona Helmsley syndrome. I remember people were outraged when she made her declaration, but it's what most of the have mores are thinking.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. They really are being blatant. At least we have full transparency somewhere. n/t

[buddysmellgood]

2. "Someone like you" someone who will speak to the public. That really says it all.

[Ed Suspicious]

4. This guy and his election over a progressive champion

really still stings. I get nauseaous every time I read anything from him. Maybe it "would" be better for my own personal satisfaction and sanity if he stayed out of the news.

[undeterred]

5. The smartest man in the senate was replaced by the dumbest

man in the senate, politics aside.

[Octafish]

6. Johnson's a Koch Whore

Fuel for the fire...

A Blueprint for a Takeover: Wisconsin Republicans Lied While the Kochs Schemed

By Abe Sauer| March 8, 2011

One of the reasons moderate Wisconsin Republicans have seen the party slide from their grasp is a massive influx of out-of-state money from groups such as the Koch-founded Americans for Prosperity and the Sam Adams Alliance.

SNIP...

But despite that claim, American Majority does not actually support Democrats. Currently the organization's website features a large "Stand with Walker" banner, coincidentally the same motto used by the heavily funded ad campaign from Koch's Americans for Prosperity.

SNIP...

American Majority was founded by Ned and Drew Ryun, sons of longtime Kansas Republican Representative Jim Ryun. (Yes, Kansas, home of the Kochs.) Jim Ryun's federal campaign finance report reads like a list of tens of thousands of dollars from the Kochs, going all the way back to 1997.

American Majority was organized by, and receives a great deal of its funding through, the Chicago-based Sam Adams Alliance, which carefully protects the list of its patrons and has gone to pains (though not effectively enough) to remove evidence that it is in large part funded by the Kochs. American Majority is also partnered with Koch organizations that don't hide the Koch connection at all, like Americans for Prosperity.

SOURCE: http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/a-blueprint-for-a-takeover-wisconsin-republicans-lied-while-the-kochs-schemed

[iwishiwas]

7. agree!!