I heard this morning that candidate for governor of Maryland Doug Duncan will return campaign contributions made seven years ago by corporations linked to lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Thats nice but I just want to know something: Who freakin cares?!! It was 7 freakin years ago!
Do these politicians really think that Joe Public cares about stuff like that? The average person on the street probably just thinks he's being a grandstanding ass. Plus, returning money from an indirect source makes little sense to me. Besides the point that it was used long ago for another campaign. It's all stupid.
He's just running for higher office anyway so he can hook up with some other lobbyist who isn't dumb enough to get caught. That's the only reason these clowns run for office at all. They make their personal fortunes once they get in office and start working for the lobbyists. They sure don't work for the people like they are supposed to. This is the reason that Lobbying has become such a huge business and why it will never be outlawed as it should be.
To me, the modern politician is like an alien or something. They do things that would be considered outrageous in normal life. (Like that dork Rep. William Jefferson who got busted taking bribes and joking about it.) But the worst part is that we keep pretending we don't know. We keep going to rallies and swearing that 'our candidate' will be different. That they will do their job and we will be happy. It just never works that way.
I think the whole system needs to be scrapped and rebuilt.
Return the money Doug. Do a little grandstanding just like the other clowns have done. Someone somewhere will be impressed and you'll get their vote. Get elected. Then you can find another Jack Abramoff to make up the difference later.
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