STOP ELECTING WALL STREET!!

[Playinghardball]

[elleng]

1. from Martin O'Malley, We have a choice.

For all of the progress we've made in rebuilding our economy after the 2008 crash, there is still so much that needs to be done. Right now, there are more repercussions for a person driving with a broken taillight in our country than there are for the CEO of a big bank being a chronic violator of SEC rules. No one is holding CEOs accountable for reckless behavior, and they're putting our economy at risk. We must not allow another Wall Street meltdown to bring down hard-working families.

I am not beholden to Wall Street interests and that's why your grassroots contribution to this campaign is so important.

We're up against a critical fundraising deadline in just one week. Donate $35 today and join the only campaign that will stand up to Wall Street.

Thank you,

Martin O'Malley

https://martinomalley.com/public-enemy-1/?ms=WSFR_3

[hifiguy]

2. How farking hard is this to understand?

Around here trying to drive this incredible simple idea into many heads is more difficult than trying to pound a strand of spaghetti into a sphere of metallized hydrogen.

[Rex]

3. Hey look it is citigroup! You guys remember them, they wrote the cromnibus bill

to allow Wall Street to 'crash' again!

Hmmm...union, unions...are those good things or bad things...been so long since I heard that word.

[WillyT]

4. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[madokie]

5. Bernie is in my court

therefore I in his.

[hifiguy]

7. It really is that simple.

Isn't it?

[madokie]

8. Yes it is

[DanTex]

6. Just so you know, the money on that chart isn't coming from the firms themselves, it's coming

from people who work at the firms. Corporations can't donate to candidates.

Oh, and you might wonder why she got so many donations from people who work at places like Citibank or JPMorgan. That would be because those are the two largest private employers in her home state of New York.

[madokie]

9. Rather

those are the people who stand to gain in her winning

people don't give large sums of money to a politician for shits and grins

[DanTex]

10. Actually those people didn't give large sums, since individual campaign contributions are capped.

They are just individuals donating to their preferred Senate candidate.

[madokie]

12. I believe that LOL

sure I don't

[freshwest]

13. There were similiar charges of shenanigans when PBO got a lot from CA colleges. Oops, employees. n/t

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[BainsBane]

11. corporations are prohibited by law from donating to individual politicians

The chart this comes from on opensecrets is internally inconsistent. On one hand, it lists key banks as principle donors, but on the tab for donations by industry, lawyers, educators and women's groups are at the top. Finance is down the list. If makes no sense that the primary industries/areas would not be reflected in top donors. Their own presentation of the data contradicts itself.

This is a dishonest meme.

[freshwest]

14. Don't rain on the parade. Some states need rainfall. How inhumane are you?

[hifiguy]

15. And it's supposedly illegal for third-party organizations

to coordinate with individual campaigns.

And if you believe that never happens, there's a bridge in Brooklyn I can get you a great deal on.

[ismnotwasm]

17. I've seen this piece of shit chart so many times

It's gotten boring. What a crock of shit. Tin-foul hat CT woo-woo wing nut shit.

[leftofcool]

16. Another dishonest chart...................yawn

[seveneyes]

18. Holy shit I'm caught in a spell