Month: March 2014
Campaign Funds Sources Getting Harder to Identify
$336 million
Spending by “dark money” groups — organizations that do not have to disclose the sources of their political money — in 2012, according to Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service data. Dark money has skyrocketed from about $25 million in 2000.
Texas GOP Leader Says Men Are Better Negotiators
Men are better negotiators, and I would encourage women, instead of pursuing the courts for action, to become better negotiators.
— Texas Republican Party Executive Director Beth Cubriel, quoted by Huffington Post, explaining the GOP’s position on fair pay legislation.
Carville Hoping for ‘Political Climate Change’ Before November
If the election were held in the current climate, it wouldn’t be hard to argue that the Democrats might have a bad, perhaps even awful, election ahead of them. However, the one thing we know is that it is not going to be held now — it is going to be held in November. This is a case where we don’t know if there is going to be a political climate change or not. Suffice to say, I am pulling for some political climate change.
— James Carville, in a column in The Hill, on the 2014 midterms.
With Friends Like Charlie Rangel, Who Needs Republicans?
Maybe it was the water that they drink at Harvard.
— Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), quoted by the New York Observer, on why President Barack Obama thought he could work with what Rangel calls the “mean, racist people” in the Tea Party.
Note to Republicans: Most Poor Americans Are White
Despite the stereotypes — and the reality behind them that blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately poor — the largest group of poor people in America are white people.
ACA Enrollment Tops 5 Million Mark
5 million
People have signed up for private health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration announced. The AP reports: “That still leaves about 1 million to go over the next two weeks for the White House to meet its latest goal of 6 million enrolled by March 31. That would work out to more than 70,000 people a day. And some independent analysts say that’s a stretch.”
What Say, Lindsay?
Sometimes politicians seem to know not what they say.
His opponent has put Lindsay Graham’s sexuality in play.
Candidate Dave Feliciano
Would like us all to know
That incumbent Senator Graham is definitively “ambiguously gay.”
