Why Vote for Candidates Funded by the Elite?

[LiberalMedia]

So, Thom Tillis is the Wrongpublican candidate for U.S. Senate in NC. He's funding his campaign with contributions from Sheldon Adelson (billionaire casino magnate who bankrolled Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential bid largely on his own), Hushang Ansary (Iranian billionaire), John Allison (ex-CEO of BB&T), James Brothers (tobacco executive), Ron Cameron (poultry company executive who funds the Club for Growth and is linked with the Koch brothers), Edwin Clark (Executive Vice President at a national chain of gas stations), Joe Craft (coal executive), and Harlan Crow (investment company executive), and/or their families.

Billionaires, executives, and billionaire executives. Quite a coalition the Wrongpublicans have got supporting them.

With this in mind, why would anyone vote for Tillis and his equivalents in other states? The only reason these elites are supporting Tillis is because he'll make them even richer and more powerful. Why should the common pyyple ever vote for him, or any other Wrongpublican corporate pawn?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Which group of Billionaires are Backing the Dem in N.C.?

 

[LiberalMedia]

Which group of Billionaires are Backing the Dem in N.C.?

A great question! I've looked and looked, but can't find a single one. Can you?

 

[Siete]

Which group of Billionaires are Backing the Dem in N.C.?

none, why?

Sen. Kay R. Hagan Campaign Finance Money - Top Donors - Senator 2014 OpenSecrets

 

[Mad Scientist]

I'd SAY you weren't looking very hard but it seems yer not looking at all.

Lorillard Tobacco Co. worth 1.9 Billion. They make Newport brand cigarettes, among other things.
Sen. Kay R. Hagan Campaign Finance Money - Summary - Senator 2014 OpenSecrets

 

[Mad Scientist]

Don't you Libs HATE tobacco and it's "dirty cancer money"?

 

[Mad Scientist]

CitiGroup - Global Banking Scum. Worth roughly 120 Billion.

Sen. Kay R. Hagan Campaign Finance Money - Summary - Senator 2014 OpenSecrets

 

[rdean]

The "elites". Ha!
Don't you just hate "smart people" who are really good at what they do? No wonder the GOP doesn't want them in the Republican Party. The "elite" aren't "normal".

 

[Mad Scientist]

"Support Bankers! Support Big Tobacco! Vote Hagan!"

 

[Siete]

Poll Kay Hagan Thom Tillis race still tight - Tarini Parti - POLITICO.com


the Libertarian will suck enough RW voters away from Tillis ... Kay wins.

 

[LiberalMedia]

I'd SAY you weren't looking very hard but it seems yer not looking at all.

Lorillard Tobacco Co. worth 1.9 Billion. They make Newport brand cigarettes, among other things.
Sen. Kay R. Hagan Campaign Finance Money - Summary - Senator 2014 OpenSecrets

Great accusation! Now prove it by telling me exactly who associated with Lorillard made the contributions, how much they gave, and when (as in, what date) they gave it.

And before some incompetent conservatard idiot comes in and starts gibbering about "B-B-BUT DAT B IMPOSSABULL, UR SO UNFAIR, WAAHHHH," I can tell you that Sheldon and Miriam Adelson each cut their own $2,600 checks to the Thom Tillis Committee on May 23, 2014. I have all of this information readily available for all of Tillis' contributors, in addition to their mailing (and usually also residential) addresses, which I won't post here because unlike Wrongpublican fanatics, I care about other pyyple's privacy.

 

[LiberalMedia]

Poll Kay Hagan Thom Tillis race still tight - Tarini Parti - POLITICO.com


the Libertarian will suck enough RW voters away from Tillis ... Kay wins.

Agreed. Called it months ago.

Libertarian candidates in the past have consistently scored over 2% of the vote, despite Libertarians making up way less than 2% of registered voters. Sean Haugh, this year's Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, has been getting way more press coverage than past candidates, so I think we'll see his numbers grow from that norm accordingly in the election day results.

Hilarious that Wrongpublicans are actually going to fall for the same trick that Democrats used to win the Caucasian House back in the 1912 presidential election--dangle the "third party" carrot over the heads of disenfranchised and alienated Wrongpublicans, split the vote just enough to allow the Democrat to win the plurality, and the seat is ours.

 

[LiberalMedia]

The "elites". Ha!
Don't you just hate "smart people" who are really good at what they do? No wonder the GOP doesn't want them in the Republican Party. The "elite" aren't "normal".

You've always seemed like a die-hard lybyryl to me. What happened to make you support elitist billionaires and banking executives?

 

[Statistikhengst]

I'd SAY you weren't looking very hard but it seems yer not looking at all.

Lorillard Tobacco Co. worth 1.9 Billion. They make Newport brand cigarettes, among other things.
Sen. Kay R. Hagan Campaign Finance Money - Summary - Senator 2014 OpenSecrets

That's a company, not an individual person.

Surely you understand the difference, since the rest of the adults in the room do.

 

[Penelope]

Some of the Reps, went to Vegas already to prance and smooch up to Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. Sickening behavior.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Some of the Reps, went to Vegas already to prance and smooch up to Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. Sickening behavior.

Is there anything about their name that bothers you in specific?

 

[Mac1958]

I'd SAY you weren't looking very hard but it seems yer not looking at all.

Lorillard Tobacco Co. worth 1.9 Billion. They make Newport brand cigarettes, among other things.
Sen. Kay R. Hagan Campaign Finance Money - Summary - Senator 2014 OpenSecrets

Hardcore partisan ideologues are largely blind to information and data that contradict their rhetoric.

Anyway, money pollutes the political system, from billionaires buying influence to politicians voting in a way to attract more money.

The problem is the system, and politicians don't want to fix it, EITHER party.

.

 

[Statistikhengst]

The "elites". Ha!
Don't you just hate "smart people" who are really good at what they do? No wonder the GOP doesn't want them in the Republican Party. The "elite" aren't "normal".

You've always seemed like a die-hard lybyryl to me. What happened to make you support elitist billionaires and banking executives?

Evryyny lyvys mynyy!

 

[Penelope]

Some of the Reps, went to Vegas already to prance and smooch up to Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. Sickening behavior.

Is there anything about their name that bothers you in specific?

Why yes , I'm an American who is sick and tired of war.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Some of the Reps, went to Vegas already to prance and smooch up to Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. Sickening behavior.

Is there anything about their name that bothers you in specific?

Why yes , I'm an American who is sick and tired of war.

And those two individuals have somehow caused war? Is this what you are saying, Penelope?