[BfB(oG)] U of I for Nader?

[Jim Buell]

Another quick thought. Unlike the case the major parties, these "top 
contributors" lists for the Nader are for real (except in the case of a 
gigantic entity like the UI or U of Calif, which are each the 'employer' of 
record for maybe, what,  100,000 people if you count all the students, 
teachers, staff and faculty on all the campuses).

What I mean is, Nader's accepting no PAC money, and there's no such thing 
as a Green Party war chest. Whereas the Dems, GOP and quite a few minor 
parties are PAC'd to the gills and have "national committees" and "state 
committees" that are nothing but slush funds. The "hard" money that's 
subject to reporting and $1000 limits, and that opensecrets.org is using 
for its figures, is only the tip of a very dirty iceberg.

So, for instance, when we hear that Nader is budgeting $5 million total for 
the campaign, that's a real figure. Whereas when we hear that Gore has $53 
million or Bush has $100 million, that's only the hard money portion. It 
still says nothing about the soft slushy stuff.

Jim


At 04:02 PM 8/26/00 -0700, Paul Riismandel wrote:
>This is strange.  I was surfing around, checking out who's giving money to 
>who, and I stumbled onto a list of top contributors to the Nader 
>campaign.  And guess who's number 6?  The University of Illinois!
>
>See for yourself: http://www.opensecrets.org/2000elect/contrib/P20000527.htm
>
>Of course Illinois is still behind U. of California and Ben and Jerry's.
>
>Can somebody conjure up an explanation for this strange state of affairs?
>
>--Paul
>
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Jim Buell
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graduate student in Ed Psych, UIUC

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