35 Romney endorsers received contributions [from Romney's PACs] first

[DeathToTheOil]

Money may not be buying Mitt Romney much Republican love, but it’s going a long way toward helping him buy the next best thing: endorsements in the GOP primaries.

Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC and its affiliates have lavished close to $1.3 million in campaign donations to federal, state and local GOP politicians, almost all since 2010. His recipients include officials in the major upcoming primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in three southern Super Tuesday states where he was trounced four years ago.

In New Hampshire, a U.S. senator, a congressman, 10 state senators and three executive councilors shared $26,000 in donations from Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC in 2010 and 2011 combined. All 15 have showered Romney with endorsements leading up to Tuesday’s primary

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came out for Romney last month – a year after his Free and Strong America PACs funneled $36,000 to the Tea Party darling’s 2010 election bid. And 19 state and Washington, D.C., lawmakers in three Super Tuesday states – Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia — are backing Romney after his PAC poured a total of $125,500 into their coffers for elections held in 2009 and 2010.

“This is as old as politics itself,” Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute of Money in State Politics. “He’s just taking it to a whole new level.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/35_romney_endorsers_received_contributions_first/

Another thing as old as politics itself? Bribery!

[gateley]

1. Wow. They think money can buy everything (and everyone). Meg Whitman learned otherwise. nt

[jonthebru]

2. Gosh!

I am so very surprised and perplexed at this information.

[Survivoreesta]

5. LOL>

Now that's good !

[xxqqqzme]

3. Money for favors

that is the world's oldest profession and rethugs are masters of the profession.

[SaintPete]

4. This isn't bribery, this is prostitution

which, I am told, is older even than politics

[Survivoreesta]

10. How do you define "prostitution"?>

I hope you're not including women trading sex for food and protection in your definition!

[SaintPete]

11. I was specifically speaking to the behavior

of Romney, essentially paying for the services of all these high-class political "escorts." It's one thing to freely jump in bed with a candidate because you like their various positions, it's another thing entirely to have jumped in bed based on the cash left on the table in the dark corner of the room.

[Survivoreesta]

13. I was with you until the last sentence>

"Escorts", after all, can be male or female. But "cash left on the table" is evocative of the age-old trope about "call girls" being used and then ignored and/or discarded.

[Survivoreesta]

14. Or "summoned women">

In the telephone age we have call girls, but they're no different than the "summoned women" of ancient times, where a rich and/or powerful man would have one of his aides "summon" a woman or underaged girl to his home or his place of lodging to be used like an appliance.

[DeathToTheOil]

15. Uh.....

I don't think he meant to be misogynistic. Also, exactly what does this thread have to do with what you're saying? Look, I don't want to be insensitive, ma'am, but I think you're projecting. Massively. This is a thread about money in politics. That's all.

[SaintPete]

16. Ok

so thanks for the feedback

[DeathToTheOil]

17. Indeed

I wondered where she was coming from, and, having checked out her profile, I can understand her particular sensitivities.

But you were not being misogynistic, my friend!

[Survivoreesta]

20. SP & DTTO>

Don't do me any favors! I don't need your fucking condescecion! You've checked out my profile? Well GOOD FOR YOU! Neither of you knows me!

[Thor_MN]

21. You think that these politcal endorsers aren't being used and discarded?

Pretty obvious that it is pure prostitution. And cash left on the table is exactly what the OP is about. Not sure why you want to drag the conversation off on some personal tangent.

[JJW]

6. That's a lot of free speech

Can't help but wonder how much Justice Clarence Thomas got?

[tabatha]

7. How could this not be made into a strong ad against Romney for political corruption?

[Amonester]

8. Sadly, most of 'em do it, freely.

It's the root of all evil.

[Royal-T]

9. Sadly , I am not much supprised by these findings.

It seems as though people turn a hesitant but blind eye towards corruption these days .

[DeathToTheOil]

19. Well...

sic transit gloria mundi

[6000eliot]

12. Newty fires his first shot?

[gopiscrap]

18. Romney is such a slimy mother fucker

I can't stand that smarmy secret under wear wearing piece of shit!

[malthaussen]

23. Proving once again

... that the surprise is not that people are for sale, but how low the price is.

-- Mal