Calif. residents spend most on inauguration

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Long Beach Press Telegram

Calif. residents spend most on inauguration
Donations total $4.5 million twice as much as Texas.
By Lisa Friedman
From our Washington Bureau

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To help pay for this week's inaugural festivities, Californians and corporations based in the state donated $4.5 million more than any other state, and twice as much as second-place Texas.

Contributors in Los Angeles and Ventura counties alone gave $1.9 million, more than all the donations from Florida.

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"We're a country at war, we have soldiers in Iraq that don't have proper equipment and gear, we just saw the worst natural disaster in the world,' said Common Cause President Chellie Pingree.

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Pingree called the inauguration week of balls, luncheons and corporate-sponsored private parties a "high-end lobbying bonanza' for the companies sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into the events.


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[Maat]

1. I was so proud to be a Californian because of Barbara Boxer!

And now ....

Maybe I ought to stick a picture of a baby without arms because of our bombs in front on one of those donor's faces, and see what they say, or a maimed soldier. Party on then, dude!

[MockSwede]

2. GO CHELLIE!!

Got to meet her and her daughter at my daughter's Maine Youth Leadership COnvention at USM last Spring - nice ladies - all three!

[xxqqqzme]

3. once you're on the treadmill

U don't get off - in order 2 find out if U 'just really like' the pretzeldent, U have 2 pony up a wad of green stuff...then you're name is added 2 the list......etc.

'...Bruce Bialosky, president of the Republican Jewish Coalition of Los Angeles who raised $100,000 for Bush's re-election but was not one of the top inaugural donors, took issue with what he called a "cynical' view that political donors are always angling for access. While it may be true of corporate bigwigs and lobbyists, he argued that many individual donors "just really like the president.'

OK, call me cynical, I call U amazingly uninformed. Hey, Bruce guess what the RW fundies have planned 4 U and your people? It ain't pretty!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Where does a police commissioner get an extra hundred grand to blow?

Someone should investigate that guy

[Megahurtz]

5. Well

:puke:there are too many "fuck you I've got mine"-ers here.