On Feb 6, 12:41 am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Please back up your statements about Bush getting more money from Wall > Street than the Dems. I doubt that very much.
I'll have to put your doubts to rest then. Here's a graph from the Christian Science Monitor (hardly a liberal bastion). http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/financial-industries-are-heaviest-spenders-on-political-campaigns/7142647-1-eng-US/Financial-industries-are-heaviest-spenders-on-political-campaigns_full_600.jpg Another: http://www.scribd.com/doc/8969709/Fact-Sheet-Wall-Street-Money-in-Politics http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/soldoutreport.htm ...from 1998-2008, Wall Street investment firms, commercial banks, hedge funds, real estate companies and insurance conglomerates made $1.725 billion in political contributions and spent another $3.4 billion on lobbyists, a financial juggernaut aimed at undercutting federal regulation. The betrayal was bipartisan: about 55 percent of the political donations went to Republicans and 45 percent to Democrats, primarily reflecting the balance of power over the decade. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703575004575043612216461790.html Republicans are stepping up their campaign to win donations from Wall Street, trying to capitalize on an increasing sense of regret among executives at big financial institutions for backing Democrats in 2008. In discussions with Wall Street executives, Republicans are striving to make the case that they are banks' best hope of preventing President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats from cracking down on Wall Street. >From Oct. 2003 http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=cabal-elite/w-administration/big-money/wall-street-bush-biggest-donor.txt "All these guys are totally in Bush's camp," said a politically active executive, adding that "people are not hedging their bets at this point. There's not a lot of fund-raising being done for Democrats right now." Mr. O'Neal of Merrill Lynch sent a series of letters to the homes of a few hundred of the firm's most senior executives in June, asking them to contribute to a fund-raising dinner in support of Mr. Bush. James E. Cayne, chairman and chief executive of Bear Stearns & Company, also sent a letter asking his executives to donate to the campaign. Joseph J. Grano, who runs the brokerage operations of UBS, the Swiss bank, has been an avid backer of President Bush and the Republican convention. Mr. Grano promised to raise at least $200,000 for the re-election campaign and to gather money for the convention, said executives at the firm, formerly known as UBS PaineWebber. Mr. Paulson, of Goldman Sachs, was recruited by Gov. George E. Pataki of New York to collect cash from the Wall Street firms to finance the convention, an official at the firm said, and has gathered $5 million so far. Mark wrote: > It has absolutely nothing to do with Party affiliation. It is entirely self > serving. And that's exactly what I said in a earlier post. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
