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A bill to extend jobless benefits for three months was defeated in the U.S. House, threatening to cut off aid to thousands of the nation’s long-term unemployed.

Republicans, in a replay of a dispute earlier this year, blocked the legislation because its billion cost would be added to the government’s deficit.     They demanded offsetting savings elsewhere in the budget.     These are the same republicans that want to extend the Bush tax cuts to those making over 0,000 a year and don’t worry about what that costs.

The 258-154 vote fell short of the two-thirds needed under an expedited approval process.     Voting against the bill were 11 Democrats and 143 Republicans.

Who are these worthless fools who call themselves Democrats?

Here are the 11 democrats who voted against unemployeement for Americas workers.    Glenn Nye from Virginias 2nd District lost his re-election bid and is a lame duck in this lame duck session. ACVDN says Good Riddance to sorry trash to Mr Nye.    Nye was never a Democrat, just a drag on the party and an embarrisment to Democrats across Virginia and beyond.


I don’t have anything good to say about any of these backstabbing phonies.    Only 3 of them will last longer than the lame duck session as the voters terminated their services.    Heath Shuler is one of the ones who will be there to be a pain for the democrats but he lost in his bid for Minority leader to Nancy Pelosi.

Here are the 11 bozos that can’t be counted on.


Representative Marion Berry (D – Arkansas) 1st District


Congressman Allen Boyd representing Florida’s 2nd district


Congressman Bobby Bright 2nd District Alabama


Congressman Jim Cooper – Represents Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District


Congressman Lincoln Davis Represents Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District


Congressman Baron Hill, Representing Indiana’s 9th Distict


Congressman Walt Minnick, Representing the 1st District of Idaho


Glenn Nye, US Representative for Virginia’s 2nd District.


Congressman Collin Peterson — Minnesota’s 7th District


Representative Heath Shuler NC, 11th District


Congressman Gene Taylor 4th District Mississippi

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NOT VOTING 7 Democrats…Hopefully these folks have good excuses for not being there when they were needed.

Democrat Corrine Brown
Democrat Delahunt
Democrat Kennedy
Democrat Lynch
Democrat McMahon
Democrat Moran (VA)
Democrat Space

Aid is set to expire Nov. 30 for some unemployed, and with Congress out of session next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, lawmakers will have little time to find agreement before then.


“This bill is like déjà vu all over again, and not in a good way,” said Representative Charles Boustany, a Louisiana Republican and third class phoney.    “We all want to help those in need but the American people also know someone has to pay when government spends money, and it shouldn’t be our children and grandchildren.” 

Congressman Boustany once attempted to buy an English Title.   There was one small problem it was a fraud. Apparently,   two con artists hoodwinked dumb wealthy Americans like Congressman Boustany that they could buy an English Title, which would give them all sorts of goodies like being called Lord Boustany and a seat to ride in the Queen Mum’s 100th Birthday celebration back in the mid-1990′s.    Lord Boustany was a NO Vote.

 Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said “ending unemployment assistance will not only be devastating for these individuals and their families but it will also hurt the economy as a whole by undermining consumer confidence and demand.”


About 8,400 Americans will see their unemployment checks cut off by the end of the first week of December, according to Labor Department estimates.    By the end of the third week of December, 1.36 million Americans will be affected if Congress doesn’t act, the agency said.


The unemployment rate last month was 9.6 percent.     Jobless benefits were cut off earlier this year for some unemployed people after a similar dispute in the Senate led by Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning.

“I think it’s a sad moment,” said Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) after the vote.    ”It appalls me that the Republicans keep pitching and pitching and pitching the tax cuts for the rich and won’t join in a bill to help people keep their homes and not have to live in their cars.”
The bill is H.R. 6419.   

Bottom Line, It sickens me every time I hear Obama talk about getting along with Republicans.     Every time he makes a concession in the spirit of bipartisan conduct and gets nothing in return.      Its time to pitch that hope crap in circular file 13 and face the real world.      If Obama would stand up and lead he might be surprised that there would be followers behind him.     He should keep his veto pen in his breast pocket and have somebody teach him how to work it.

 ACVDN says Thank You to the 21 Republicans who voted in support of their fellow citizens who have fallen on hard times.

I sincerely hope your act of kindness is rewarded in some way.


Our Congressman, Bob Goodlatte was NOT ONE OF THOSE 21 and I hope his action gets the proper reward.

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Various news about the Rhode Island Moderate Party since the election:

Most recently, the party’s chairman Robert Corrente stepped down from that position so that Ken Block, who had resigned while he ran for governor, could take over.

Party executive director Christine Hunsinger says former U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente (kuh-RENT’-ee) resigned the week after the Nov. 2 election.

Block, an entrepreneur, got 6.5 percent of the vote in this month’s election, enough to guarantee the party a spot on the ballot.

In an editorial, the Providence Journal recommends that independent governor-elect Lincoln Chafee hire the party’s own Ken Block for a “top job” in his government.

Texas hired Mr. Block while he worked at GTECH to design software to track Food Stamps use. Data mining — the use of computers to analyze vast quantities of information, in this case largely grocery sales in stores across the state, identified huge fraud and waste in the program. Texas saved about billion over 15 years as a result.

Rhode Island has similar challenges in the administration of such programs as Medicaid, though probably more of duplication and other inefficiencies than actual fraud. Bringing new technology, such as data mining, to that and other large and wasteful programs, could go a long way to making state government less costly and more effective.

A Democratic state legislator joined the Providence Journal’s call to hire Block, and the Brown Daily Herald is predicting that the Moderate Party is “just getting started.”

Block was not the only candidate the Moderate Party fielded this year.

It ran one other candidate for statewide office, Christopher Little, who garnered 14.4 percent of the vote in the attorney general’s race.

Block said the next plan on his party’s agenda is to field candidates for the General Assembly in 2012. He has already heard from potential candidates who have expressed interest in running for the Moderate Party in that cycle, he said.

Block has not decided if he will run in any future elections, he said.

Since the election, a representative in the state legislature has called on Governor-elect Chafee to exploit Block’s expertise in his administration. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, D-Woonsocket, submitted a recommendation to Chafee that he work with Block on saving the state money, according to a General Assembly press release.

Columnist Ed Fitzpatrick wrote a piece focusing on the Moderate Party’s “moderate success” and their plans for the future.

On one hand, the Moderate Party’s main target is the General Assembly, but it fielded just three Assembly candidates and they all lost. The party’s three local candidates also met with defeat.

On the other hand, party founding-father Kenneth J. Block out-debated better-known opponents in the governor’s race and finished fourth out of seven, collecting enough votes to keep the Moderate Party on the ballot in 2012 and 2014. And the party’s attorney general candidate, Christopher H. Little, did fairly well, finishing third out of five with 14.4 percent of the vote.

“First and foremost, we introduced statewide the concept of a new political party,” Block said Monday.

And finally, although a bit repetitive, Ken Block’s reaction to the election.

Block notes that his Independent and Democrat challengers were very well financed from early on, while the Moderate Party had to fight through the courts and hire petition drivers from out of state to get access to the ballot.

Further down the ballot, Block commented on Moderate candidate Chris Little’s impressive 14.4% showing in the race for the top law enforcement position in the state. “Chris Little was one of the more qualified candidates we’ve ever had, with impeccable credentials in a five way race.”

When asked about the Moderate candidate for the Lieutenant Governor’s office, current East Greenwich School Committee chairwoman Jean Ann Guliano, who made news this year over the hotly contested decision to outsource the district’s janitorial staff to an out of state staffing firm, he commented that she had gotten ill and was unable to file documents registering her candidacy with the state.

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The Associated Press reports:

Less than a year after removing most limits on election spending by corporations and organized labor, the Supreme Court is signaling trouble for another campaign law that aims to curtail the political power of big money.

The court on Monday said it will consider dismantling Arizona‘s program that gives extra cash to publicly funded candidates who face privately funded rivals. Similar matching funds programs exist in a half-dozen other states and a handful of big cities.

The court probably will strike down the Arizona program, according to Richard L. Hasen, an election law specialist at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He said this will further imperil public financing of campaigns by taking away “one of the only tools” left to make public financing attractive to candidates.

The Arizona case is the fourth big campaign finance issue to come before the court since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito joined it five years ago and made it more likely to strike down federal and state regulations.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/29/national/w070707S93.DTL#ixzz16huPhTAj

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According to the blog of Dr. Tom Stevens:

On November 23, 2010, Alden Link, the Libertarian Party’s Candidate for Lt. Governor of New York State in 2010, resigned his membership in the Manhattan Libertarian Party in protest to the way it and the New York Libertarian Party has treated Libertarian Party of Queens County members Sam Sloan and Dr. Tom Stevens.

In an e-mail to Mark Axinn, New York Libertarian Party Chair and Manhattan Libertarian Party Secretary/Treasurer, Alden Link wrote the following:

I am saddened by the dispute between the LPQC and the MLP, with Tom Stevens and Sam Sloan in particular being victimized by the NYLP and MLP.

I feel my continued membership in the MLP is not in my best interests or that of the LPQC. Therefore, I hereby tender my resignation from the Manhattan Libertarian Party.

Should the two groups reconcile their differences with apologies to Tom and Sam, I would certainly reconsider this decision.

Dr. Tom Stevens, LPQC Political Director, responded as follows:

I appreciate Alden Link ending his association with the Manhattan Libertarian Party. The MLP’s County Committee declared war on the Queens LP by asking its Political Director to resign his membership and by suspending the membership of Sam Sloan, a prominent LPQC member, who was unanimously elected by the MLP membership to be its State Representative. In addition to that, Mark Axinn, as NYLP Chair, spoke in favor of forming a Special Committee to investigate charges against John Procida, the former LPQC Chair, as a prelude to taking action to suspend Procida’s State Party membership, as was just done to former LPQC State Representative Dr. Tom Stevens, and LPQC member Sam Sloan, who the LPQC endorsed as its candidate for governor.

Mark Axinn believes the insults and injuries to the LPQC can just be swept under the rug and that by taking no further aggressive actions against the Queens LP leadership, that all will simply be forgiven. This will not happen!

I can confidently say the Libertarian Party of Queens County seeks peaceful, friendly relations with the Manhattan Libertarian Party. All that is required to restore good relations is an apology to Sam Sloan and myself with an invitation extended to us to rejoin the Manhattan Libertarian Party.

Mark Axinn and the County Committee of the Manhattan Libertarian Party created this situation and it is within their power to resolve it. However, without justice, there can and will be no peace!

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One of the standout moments in the last weeks of the heated U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Republican Ken Buck against Democrat Michael Bennet came when Buck appeared on the stump with famous climate-change-denying U.S. Senator James Inhofe, who believes global warming theory is a hoax. For a few days in Colorado, climate change was a mainstream news story again, yet another version where climate change was framed as a matter of politics.

That’s an ongoing problem, according to the nineteen MediaClimate scholars, who have just published a book on media coverage of the last two United Nations climate summits called Global Climate, Local Journalisms. The fact that journalists overwhelmingly write about climate change as political news and in stories that lean heavily on politician-lawmakers as sources gives the views of people like Inhofe vastly disproportional power on the issue.

In the popular media, in the U.S. and in countries across the globe, members of the scientific and business community are cited less often than politicians by a wide margin.

“Politics is the avenue through which people come to understand climate change, which may be a way to say that politics is a way people come to misunderstand climate change or, more accurately, how they come to understand mostly just the politics of climate change,” said University of Denver media studies professor Adrienne Russell, one of the authors of the book.

Russell told the Colorado Independent that recent statistics on public perceptions of climate change make more sense when seen in that light. As has been widely reported, climate change denial is increasing among the public even as the science becomes more robust and policy changes to address the issue take effect and the clean energy industry advances.

“In Copenhagen during the last summit, you had new-energy business people trying to tell their stories. Yet reporters from every country were largely quoting only politicians,” Russell said. “Granted, it was a United Nations summit. The big story was what policy would come out of the gathering. Yet, major business and science players were there too.

“Danish Climate Consortium representatives told me that the case they wanted to make at the summit was that alternative energy models developed in Denmark demonstrated that development could successfully take place without adding to global warming. The models show there is money to be made and infrastructure to build and energy to use in a post carbon-fueled world. This is a business topic. The story is that it can be done very successfully. Yet, by comparison to politicians, they were left to wander in the media wilderness.”

A chart from the book on journalism story sourcing at the UN summits:

Other interesting findings related in the book include the fact that reporters from nations more vulnerable to climate change– countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt– write more urgently and often about the topic than reporters based elsewhere. Also, women are rarely included in climate change reporting, making up a scant 12 percent of story sources.

In her chapter of the book, Russell found that coverage of climate change in general and of the climate change summits in particular was more robust online than offline. She said reporters at mainstream outlets were producing way too much material to be reprinted in the newspapers they worked for and that the online work being done by people like New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin, for example, was more insightful and rapid fire and leaned on more diverse sourcing. Revkin’s Dot Earth blog is hosted on the New York Times platform.

Russell said that despite the million laments about the death of journalism brought by the Web, she viewed the coverage she studied for the book being produced by U.S. journalists online as a source of great hope.

“There is real energy and credibility in the material, which is feverishly followed and fact checked in real time by readers and other journalists. The sourcing is different from the sourcing of offline stories, which I think is a welcome change. Significant is that professional models of journalism for a century-plus have been mostly exported from the United States to the rest of the world. In that light, I look at many of the changes in U.S. journalism tied to the Web as a sign of larger changes to come and for the better.”

Inhofe, incidentally, was one politician who got a cool reception in Copenhagen. The few reporters who showed up for the fleeting staircase press conference he called asked him for details to support his claim that a global warming “hoax” has been perpetrated over decades by scientists all over the world.

“It started in the United Nations,” Inhofe said, “and the ones in the United States who really grab ahold of this is the Hollywood elite.”

A reporter for Der Spiegel told him he was ridiculous.

[ Image: Aaron Koblin video of flight patterns over the U.S. About 2 million Americans travel by air every day. ]
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Note: Prof. Adrienne Russell is related to the author of this post.

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Sara Jerome @ The Hill reports:

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) wants moderate Republicans and conservatives in Colorado to meet so they can come together to prevent divides that could lead to election losses.

Tancredo ran for governor this year against a Republican in a three-way race. Democrat John Hickenlooper wound up winning.

Tancredo said that Liberty Group leaders should meet with Republican leaders to figure out how they can work together.

Full story @ http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/130757-after-unsuccessful-third-party-run-tancredo-calls-for-gop-unity

hat tip to Third Party and Independent Daily

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Presidential politics can be a bloody business, but it was a friendly basketball game Friday that gave President Obama a cut on his lip that required 12 stitches. link
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Two time Congressional Candidate Matt Reichel has announced that he will be running for Alderman in Chicago’s 47th Ward:
Matt Reichel, two-time Green Party nominee for Congress in Illinois’s 5th District, has announced to supporters that he will try to unseat 9-term alderman Gene Schulter in the upcoming municipal elections.
Reichel won about 1,000 votes in [...]
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Michael Lewis, chief organizer and chairman of Independent Kentucky, collected way more than enough signatures to run as an independent in the November general election for representative in KY House District 35.  Lewis brought national attention to the demand from independents for open primary elections (a bill for open primaries was introduced into the State House by Rep. Jimmy Higdon) when CNN followed him into the “hornets’ nest” of the statehouse in Lexington during his campaign for election reform. During this segment, former governor and Senator Juliann Carroll said “if you don’t like the way America runs its political system, then you need to move to another country.”

Below is Lewis’s account of one moment of his campaign for fair elections.

I was honored when I received a message from “The Hankster” asking if I wouldn’t mind telling everyone about my interesting election day. However to start at the Election Day would be unfair to anyone interested, so please allow me to fill in the dots to those outside of Kentucky.

Exactly 5 weeks before the election, I was out on the campaign trail walking neighborhoods when I got a very unsettling call from my wife.  As she started to explain what we just received in the mail, I couldn’t help myself to the feeling of being kicked in the stomach by a donkey! As it turns out I really was being kicked by a donkey…or a few, really. I was just served a legal summons, filed by attorney Jennifer Moore, former Kentucky Democrat Chairwoman. The plaintiff Greg Reddington is the former senior advisor to Louisville’s current Mayor Jerry Abramson (D) who has been in office for over 20 years.

Independent Kentucky in action. (Lewis is seated at the right)

My first thought… Wow, I’ve walked into the hornets’ nest! I was in disbelief, how could this be happening? After taking a moment to reflect on what I had done throughout the year and what I was there to accomplish. At that moment I decided I had already won a major victory!

As an Independent candidate, I shouldn’t have held the attention of my Democrat opponent for even a minute. However something made him or his party, take notice. Whether it was my message was clear “It doesn’t take a party to listen and respond to the needs of the people” or my active campaign of walking neighborhoods that haven’t been walked by a candidate in 8 years.

Nonetheless, as an independent, I was required by state law to submit 100 signatures of registered voters from my district. Just for the record my Democrat opponent only had to produce 2 signatures. I submitted 164, of which the lawsuit and courts ruled only 93 were valid. I did produce evidence that 100 were in fact registered but 7 registered after they signed my petition, but were still allowed to vote in the election.

So at the point of the final judgment where I was informed my votes wouldn’t count, there was 1 week until the election. So I did what any good candidate would do, I went campaigning! I wasn’t going to allow a bully tactic to take me away from taking a message to the people in my district. I think everyone appreciated the drive as well.

Now onto the original request Election Day!

While most candidates have a busy election day with “Get Out the Vote” efforts, this candidate quickly switched gears back to his Independent Kentucky Chairman role and began working to secure our progress from earlier in the year with our “Semi Open Primary Campaign”.

In 2010 Independent Kentucky had positioned our semi-open primary bill as a win/win for everyone in Kentucky and the state GOP was on board from the start. So I continued to build off our overwhelming win in the Senate and decided to work towards more success in the House where we have been stonewalled for the last 3 years. Independent Kentucky has faced overwhelming opposition in the House because of the controlling party’s unwillingness to consider the 185,000 independents in the state that they have chosen to isolate.

My wife and I were invited to several “Victory” parties on election night. We chose to attend the GOP event in downtown Louisville because the Republicans were looking to make history and pick up a large number of seats. It only took a few minutes to settle in and start working the crowd before we met up with Republican Wade Hurt who had won his race on the same technicality I lost my race. I was able to get a good amount of time with Wade and was able to get a commitment for support and an open door to Independent Kentucky and our movement. After listening to a great speech by a defeated Mayoral Candidate Hal Hiner, I was able to track down Republican new comer Mike Nemis who was able to celebrate a large victory by beating out a long time Democrat incumbent. His campaign was very impressive and a true grassroots achievement. Rep-elect Nemis has taken a big interest in Independent Kentucky and their activates and we are looking forward to working with him in the future!

As the night began to come to an end and the winners and loser thought about their campaigns, I thought about my election day and I was very proud of the outcome. I didn’t spend my election day campaigning for myself but for the 185,000 independents statewide who are looking for a voice in Kentucky!

You can reach Lewis at independentky@gmail.com

The Hankster

The Colorado Statesman this week published a massive interview with Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams. The reading is good but, for the most part, the information he relates is not that new.

It’s a good read, and the first major interview he’s given since the election but there’s not much there to make either his friends or enemies slap their foreheads with an “ah hah.”

He does imply that former Congressman Scott McInnis might have been able to win the nomination for governor and the general election had he not blamed his plagiarism scandal on an elderly researcher working for him. He also says Jane Norton’s original campaign manager gave her bad advice in her primary contest with Ken Buck for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

He again discounts the notion that the Democrats utilized a strong ground game in keeping Michael Bennet’s U.S. Senate seat in Democrats’ hands.

Instead, he points to Republican Ken Buck’s own mistakes and “reprehensible” ads by liberal groups for turning the tide toward Bennet in the weeks leading to the election.

… the Bennet campaign embarked on a very smart strategy the last three weeks — in conjunction with massive spending by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the National Education Association, ASCME, and some other 527s — zooming in on a very specific message to attack Buck on his Personhood support, his abortion stand, which did not include exceptions for rape and incest, and the fact that he had — and they honed in on that rape case that became controversial in the end. By doing that, what they did, they made Ken unacceptable to that narrow slice of the electorate that was still up for grabs. And it is always the demographic group that waits until the last minute to decide who to vote for: unaffiliated women, particularly in the suburbs of Jeffco and Arapahoe.

While blaming some of the independent liberal groups for making Buck “unacceptable” to voters, Wadhams also notes that Buck did it to himself with his own comments.

So what I do know is that the Democrats employed a very smart strategy at the end, taking advantage of comments and positions that Buck had taken. And given the voters that were still up for grabs, it worked. And it’s unfortunate, because I think many of the ads were reprehensible and deceitful and made Buck into something he is not. But you know what? Unfortunately, Ken gave them a lot of the ammunition to shoot back.

Talking about Buck’s support for the Personhood Amendment, Wadhams notes that many prominent Republicans opposed Personhood, either this year or when it was on the ballot in the past.

You will recall two years ago, Archbishop Chaput and Bob Schaffer both opposed Personhood. In fact, there was a huge split within the pro-life community itself. Many pro-life leaders opposed that amendment. If he had taken just a few minutes to sit back and make a phone call to somebody or check it out. And so that was too bad.

On the subject of Republican nominee for governor Dan Maes, Wadhams was blunt: “Frankly I have nothing to say to Dan Maes.”

Asked if he thought Maes had a future in the party, he said he does not. “No, I do not. Maybe he does with some people, but he doesn’t, as far as I’m concerned.”

On Republican Scott Tipton’s victory over incumbent John Salazar in the 3rd District, Wadhams said he knew that if Republicans could shift the discussion from whether people like Salazar to how he voted, then Tipton would have a pretty good shot.

I felt coming into this election year, after watching Salazar stand there and cheerfully vote for the Stimulus Bill and then he was right — he was standing — and probably the moment I realized that Salazar was probably vulnerable was the day after the first health care vote in the House. And there in the photo op was John Salazar proudly standing just behind Nancy Pelosi. And I remember thinking, you know what? If we can move this election from whether we like John Salazar to how John Salazar votes, we can win this thing. Because, if the question was, do we like John Salazar, well, we lose, because everybody likes John Salazar. I like John Salazar — everybody likes John. And he’s a good person and you know, you can’t — wonderful personal attributes, all that stuff. But he honestly was cavalierly voting for this Pelosi/Obama agenda that his district opposed and so I always felt — And that’s why when Scott Tipton called me whenever he started to get to wanting to run and was just asking my opinion, as he was asking many people, if I thought the race was winnable, I told him I thought it was. But nobody thought it — not many people thought it was at that point. But I said, “Scott, because now people are going to be focusing on his votes and not whether they like John.” And I said, “If you can hammer away on the votes…” Even Cap and Trade, which he voted against, remember how he did it? He wouldn’t tell anybody how he was going to vote.

On campaign finance reform, Wadhams said it won’t happen until people become more fed up than they are now, but that when it happens it will be sweeping.

CS: Full disclosure?
DW: Any amount of money from any entity any time with full, immediate disclosure and let the people decide. It will be self-enforcing, we won’t have to have the bureaucracy of the Federal Election Commission or the Secretary of State’s office telling us what is bad for us. I mean the bottom —

CS: And you have the technology, with the Internet, to do it.
DW: Exactly, exactly. And you know what, there will be enough public scrutiny of contributions that candidates and parties will have to say, “Do I really want to take this amount of money from this entity?” And it will be self-enforcing. And then the voters will decide on Election Day. That will be part of their decision making process. Because these campaign reformers — and there are plenty of Republicans who voted for McCain-Feingold — they think voters are stupid, that they have to be protected from themselves. That voters are just not smart enough to figure this out, to understand when a candidate or a party is unduly influenced by contributions. And it’s just dumb, it’s just stupid. So I mean the system is going to continue to get worse and worse and worse and worse as long as we have any of these campaign finance laws on the books. My hope is that it becomes so hopelessly lost and that it might have to reach a total breaking point and finally, my campaign finance reform plan (laughs) — and I’m not the only one who talks about this obviously — but it will finally come to fruition.

Wadhams also disputes the notion that he or the party should do a better job of vetting candidates and denies having any role in forcing Josh Penry from the race for governor.

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