{"id":47,"date":"2005-10-01T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T00:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=47"},"modified":"2005-10-01T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T22:31:41","slug":"money-votes-in-americo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/money-votes-in-americo\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Votes in AmeriCo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got an idea: let’s just eliminate the whole voting process. Everyone <\/p>\n

knows how tainted voting is. Fewer and fewer people do it and those who do cheat constantly and then corrupt public figures lie about the <\/p>\n

results (somehow, Republicans believe this and<\/em> don’t question that Republicans hold all the power). Let’s replace that sham <\/p>\n

system with the way it really works: those with money win. After all, to some of our fellow citizens, money IS speech, which must mean <\/p>\n

they believe the ones with the most money have the greatest right to speak (and those without money better shut up). Those same folks <\/p>\n

believe private property rights trump all others (good-bye, Endangered Species Act<\/a>, passed <\/p>\n

under the suddenly-too-liberal Nixon).<\/p>\n

So, let’s get out of the way of those who are corrupt enough to buy access and those who <\/p>\n

are corrupt enough to sell it. We’ll call it Free Market Democracy in the New and Improved AmeriCo! mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Ch\u00e1vez Tops $1.1M <\/p>\n

in Race to Stay Mayor<\/a> By Jim Ludwick, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Albuquerque Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez has raised more than $1.1 <\/p>\n

million for his re-election effort.<\/p>\n

That’s more than four times as much as City Councilor Eric Griego, who has reported <\/p>\n

monetary contributions totaling nearly $265,000.<\/p>\n

And it is roughly $1 million ahead of Council President Brad Winter, who has <\/p>\n

raised $154,000 in his bid to unseat Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Wage Opponents Top Backers in Spending<\/a> By Olivier <\/p>\n

Uyttebrouck, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Three groups opposing a proposed minimum wage initiative spent a total of $206,048 as of <\/p>\n

Friday, topping supporters’ expenditures of $137,483, according to reports filed at the City Clerk’s Office.<\/p>\n

The initiative <\/p>\n

on the city’s ballot Tuesday calls for an hourly minimum wage of $7.50 for regular workers and $4.50 for tipped workers at businesses <\/p>\n

with 11 or more employees.<\/p>\n

The Albuquerque Minimum Wage Committee, which supports the initiative, reported total contributions <\/p>\n

of $81,669. The three opposing groups raised $225,471.<\/p>\n

Blunt’s fundraising propels him <\/p>\n

to Republican leadership role<\/a> BY MATT STEARNS AND DAVID GOLDSTEIN, Knight Ridder Newspapers<\/p>\n

In a move of unusual <\/p>\n

perceptiveness, Blunt – himself a man of modest means – began sending contributions from his own campaign coffers to 21 Republicans <\/p>\n

throughout the country running for Congress for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got an idea: let’s just eliminate the whole voting process. Everyone knows how tainted voting is. Fewer and fewer people do it and those who do cheat constantly and then corrupt public figures lie about the results (somehow, Republicans believe this and don’t question that Republicans hold all the power). Let’s replace that sham … Continue reading Money Votes in AmeriCo<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}