I actually advocate that people supporting Kerry and the Dems give money to Americans Coming Together, the labor-enviro-progressive voter turnout organization. If you believe in independent politics, support a multi-million organization mobilizing millions of voters, run by a board of labor and progressive leaders.
Nathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace
There is a website called Fundrace 2004 <http://www.fundrace.org/>, which allows you to see if your friends, acquaintances, and neighbors gave money to any of the Democratic and Republican candidates and how much.
I looked up regular LBO-talk contributors by Fundrace.org ("All calculations are based on records filed with the FEC of contributions by all individuals totalling more than $200 [and some totalling less than $200] to a single Republican or Democratic presidential campaign or national committee between January 1, 2003 and May 31, 2004"), but the only LBO-talk associates that came up through my searches were "John P Lacny, Researcher, 1199P/SEIU" (who has to be John Lacny of LBO-talk) who gave "Howard Dean" $250 and one "Deborah Rogers, Interior Designer, Self" (who may or may not be Deborah Rogers of LBO-talk) who gave "John Kerry" $250.
Given the frequency with which the Anybody But Bush and Nader sentiments are aired on LBO-talk, I thought that more LBO-talkers must have given money to at least one Democratic candidate -- most likely Howard Dean or John Kerry, as Dennis Kucinich seems to be even less respected than Nader here -- but that doesn't seem to be the case. Why is that?
Have they given money since May 31, 2004 and their names are therefore not in the Fundrace database yet? Have they given only soft money to Democratic Party front groups like ACT and MoveOn? Are they all hard up? Or are most of them more cheapskate than hard up? Or they do not fear four more years of Bush as much as they say they do? -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/> ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk