Oh, I so love reading the New York Times
But there is one important area where special-interest money is flowing into the Democratic campaign effort - the millions of dollars being raised from corporations to finance the party’s convention in Denver. Elected Democratic officials have been calling on corporations - meeting with Wall Street executives and flying to San Diego, Philadelphia and Las Vegas - to raise the $40 million the party has budgeted for the convention, in August. In return, these Democratic officials are promising corporate donors “sponsor benefits packages” that include private sessions with federal officeholders and other influential party leaders.
–via the New York Times, of course
“sponsor benefits packages”, eh?
When the Evil Party was pulling this sort of shit 20 years ago it was considered to be an affront to all that was good and decent to the left. But, heh, it’s a little bit different now that the Stupid Party is being run by people that think that Evil Party style conservatism is a good thing and who will do anything possible to ensure that the Democrats nominate conservatives and thus keep that flood of lovely lovely payola coming into the party coffers.
Feh. I’d vote an Evil Party ticket this year if it would make any difference, but Oregon is so blue that it would simply open the floodgates to a torrent of Evil Party slime without applying the necessary whack across the nose that the Stupid Party so desperately needs. So I’ll just vote a split Socialist/Green ticket, like I should have been doing years ago when it became painfully obvious that the Stupid Party had developed an irrational fear of liberalism.