Corporate Corrupt Candidates

Article By Writer Kevin Clarke Author: Kevin Clarke
Published: February 16, 2008
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All of the candidates for president except Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee appear to be bought, owned and tools of corporations. What could be more clearly corruption than the same comp[anies giving huge dollars to competing candidates?

They want to make sure they OWN the president, no matter who it is.

Here is the top 4 contributors to each candidate. This will show you which one candidate has more integrity and honest patriotic support than all the others. Only one candidate is not bought and owned by corporate dollars,….Ron Paul. Also keep in mind that he has raised far more total dollars than any other current Republican candidate. Ron Paul has outraised McCain and Huckabee and done it without corporate dollars.

Ron Paul and NOT ‘JUAN’ McCain is the preferred candidate of the United States Military. Again,…active military choose Paul over McCain if donations are a clear measure (which they are).

In review of the 2007 contributions to the candidates so far using the website:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008

I’ve found out that it appears the candidates with the exception of Paul and Huckabee are all being bought by the same companies. Here is a top 4 list of the contributors less the monies for your review. You can examine these by either clicking on the candidate’s name in the table(s) or take the above link, click on the candidate’s name and click on the left-side menu option for top contributors.

Ron Paul’s top contributors:
US Army
US Navy
US Air Force
Google Inc.

Mitt Romney’s top contributors:
Merrill Lynch
Citigroup Inc.
Morgan Stanley

John McCain’s top contributors:
Merrill Lynch
Citigroup Inc.
Blank Rome LLP
Greenberg Traurig LLP

Mike Huckabee’s top contributors:
Stephens Group
Panduit Group
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Emmet, Marvin & Martin

Hillary Clinton’s top contributors:
DLA Piper
Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
Citigroup Inc.

Barack Obama’s top contributors:
Goldman Sachs
UBS AG
Lehman Brothers
Nation Amusement Inc.

Story idea thanks to our friends at http://www.danielscochran.com/dscblog/.
Sources of information from http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008.

Ron Paul is the only candidate not owned by corporations

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5 Responses to “Corporate Corrupt Candidates”

L.Step on February 16th, 2008 12:51 pm

I really cannot understand why anyone would vote for anyone other than Ron Paul… unless, of course, you have and can continue to make a great deal of money from the endless war in that bloody cesspool around Israel. This being the case, I suppose McCain/Lieberman would be your choice. Hillary-Obama are next best (check out the corporate sponsors of these two advocates of “Change”.
bill on February 16th, 2008 11:35 pm

This actually got a quick mention on CNN the other day.. and then they quickly went back to the far more important story of steroid use in baseball. gasp.
You’d think whch candidate the active duty military are contributing to would be important to the American people. ?

McCain doesn’t have a clue about what is going on in Iraq, what causes the Iraqi people to fight the US soldiers, etc.. watch this and you’ll see.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y395Tftgz0E
Frank on February 20th, 2008 2:37 pm

Kevin: You need to beef up your research department. Google is part owner of Ron Paul. Have you never heard of “Google Bombs?” The whole company is literally asked to contribute to his campaign. Silicon Valley as a whole has an interest in his libertarian agenda and that’s where the “over night sensation” of contributions came from.

I like your blog but I wish you’d quit saying you’re a conservative and go ahead and confess your libertarian ideology.
Kevin on February 20th, 2008 6:05 pm

I have Google listed. They are 4rth behind the military.

You are comparing that to te other lists? Those are in order of the biggest donators, Ron Paul’s 3 bigest are soldiers themselves.

And 1 of the 4 is google? so thats the counterpoint here?

Ron Paul also has more donations of <$100 from middle class folks than any other candidate.

I dont think ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, GOOGLE

is really the same as

Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Inc., Blank Rome LLP, Greenberg Traurig LLP

I did “the Political compass”, I am slight towards Conservative and slight towards libertarian (right and up) . Not strongly conservative on a few issues but the enemy off all leftist socialist ideals.

I think common sense is generally “right and up”.

Not everyone has to be Ann Coulter to have good points.

- Kevin
Kevin on February 20th, 2008 6:11 pm

“confess your libertarian ideology”….thats funny, I give up…I have tendecies!
(PS: And I even don’t personally object to gay unions)

:)