Conservative groups have spent up to $75 million in undisclosed funds, dwarfing left

[kpete]

Source: The Plum Line

Conservative groups have spent up to $75 million in undisclosed funds, dwarfing left

As you know, the conservative groups that are plowing huge sums of money from undisclosed donors into the midterm elections have been defending their actions by insisting that groups on the left are doing the same.

So I thought it would be interesting to do a straight-up informal comparison: How much in undisclosed donations is being spent by the right on independent expenditures and election communications, versus how much is coming from the left.

Here are the results. According to data from the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/independent-expenditures/committee conservative groups that have spent significant sums have plowed nearly $75 million in undisclosed donations alone into this election.

By contrast, liberal groups have spent under $10 million -- around one eighth that sum. And much of that is coming from groups that weren't set up just to influence elections.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/spending_spending_spending.html

[FiveGoodMen]

1. The left will never be able to outspend the corporations

Never.

If we don't stop selling the US to the highest bidder, then we've lost.

Period.

[glinda]

2. Most likely this is "OUR" money to begin with. So I am being held hostage by

a Corporate "Personhood".
"Hood" is right!

[Igel]

3. I had to give testimony at a hearing recently.

I was amazed by how the oath called for me to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Yet the lawyer asking me questions did everything possible to prevent me from saying the whole truth. He did his best to get truthful answers out of me that were highly misleading. He tried to shift definitions mid-questioning to make truthful answers seem false, to engage in Clintonesque tense/aspect shift games. This the judge termed "skillful."

Part truths can be more deceitful than whole lies. Lies can be debunked with a little effort. It's very nasty to debunk a partial truth because there's nothing to falsify except the conclusion.

[Blue_Tires]

4. i wonder what percentage of that is stimulus cash?