Randy Forbes Representative (R - VA)
“Instead of electing the best leaders, we elect the best fund
raisers.”
Cycle Source of Funds, 2013-2014, Campaign Cmte only
  | Individual Contributions  - Small Individual Contributions - Large Individual Contributions | $496,365 $49,666 (6%) $446,698 (56%) | (63%) |
 | PAC Contributions | $282,590 | (36%) |
 | Candidate self-financing | $0 | (0%) |
 | Other | $12,264 | (2%) |
Defining a political whore is to simply look where the money
is coming from.
·
Individual contributions from constituents; you
– the voter.
·
Large; usually untraceable, amounts of money
coming from wealthy individuals or organizations that buy, package, and own the
candidate.
The way our broken political system works, though, is that
the chief place to raise money for campaigns is from industries and interest
groups that want something from government. Influence is purchased all the
time, whether in explicit quid pro quo trades or not, and such influence
peddling just as bad for democracy as bribery.
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