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AndyTiedye

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15. The Rest Must Have Been "Dark Money"

Reply to Cleita (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 02:21 PM

Feb 2015

Nobody will ever know how much there is, nobody will ever know where it comes from.
Corporate money, mob money, foreign money, anything goes.

We can only guess at the amounts when the ads show up on the Tee Vee, and the
swarms of paid operatives show up to canvass.

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Koch brothers’ cash will wash over California, experts say [View all] KamaAina Jan 2015 OP

It sure did over our last election here locally. Cleita Jan 2015 #1

All politics is local daredtowork Jan 2015 #11

The Rest Must Have Been "Dark Money" AndyTiedye Feb 2015 #15

Now we are going to see if the people of California can be bought. That is the message they and jwirr Jan 2015 #2

Governor NutMeg Whitman could not be reached for comment. KamaAina Jan 2015 #3

To our detriment, outside money certainly influenced Prop 8 voters procon Jan 2015 #4

One of our goals all across the country is to try to infulence voters to see that they are being jwirr Jan 2015 #5

Most Californians are too smart for this shit Auggie Jan 2015 #6

O rly? KamaAina Jan 2015 #7

I said most Auggie Jan 2015 #8

Well, more of them voted for it than against it KamaAina Jan 2015 #9

I think it will be different in 2016 Auggie Jan 2015 #13

Let's hope so! KamaAina Jan 2015 #14

Also, Ahh-nuld KamaAina Jan 2015 #10

lol pwnt. nt daredtowork Jan 2015 #12