Billionaire Donors Hide Behind Velvet Curtain at GOP Convention

Floridatexan wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/billionaire-donors-hide-velvet-curtain-gop-convention/story?id=17115986&page=2

"...Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor who has been tracking money in the 2012 elections, said he has calculated that 47 individual Americans have given 42 percent of the money in this year's presidential campaign. "We have never had an election, in the last hundred years, that has had this type of money," he said.

That phenomenon has been most evident with a group of $1 million supporters of the Romney campaign called the "Victory Council." While the Romney campaign has kept the identities of his top-level fundraising team a secret, ABC News has been able to track their movements throughout the convention, and has slowly begun to identify them..."

Floridatexan wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/billionaire-donors-hide-velvet-curtain-gop-convention/story?id=17115986&page=2
heir movements throughout the convention, and has slowly begun to identify them..."

Floridatexan wrote:
"...47 individual Americans have given 42 percent of the money in this year's presidential campaign..."

Floridatexan wrote:
"...47 individual Americans have given 42 percent of the money in this year's presidential campaign..."

Floridatexan wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/billionaire-donors-hide-velvet-curtain-gop-convention/story?id=17115986&page=2

"...Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor who has been tracking money in the 2012 elections, said he has calculated that 47 individual Americans have given 42 percent of the money in this year's presidential campaign. "We have never had an election, in the last hundred years, that has had this type of money," he said.

That phenomenon has been most evident with a group of $1 million supporters of the Romney campaign called the "Victory Council." While the Romney campaign has kept the identities of his top-level fundraising team a secret, ABC News has been able to track their movements throughout the convention, and has slowly begun to identify them..."

nochain wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/billionaire-donors-hide-velvet-curtain-gop-convention/story?id=17115986&page=2
heir movements throughout the convention, and has slowly begun to identify them..."

So what? Four years ago BHO raised twice as much as the Republicans - I seriously doubt that was a result of cake sales and lemonade stands. The hypocrisy of you ultra liberals never ceases to dismay me. I suppose since BHO can't run on his dismal record you folks have to dredge up every moot point you can find to distract your weak minded comrades.

Floridatexan wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/billionaire-donors-hide-velvet-curtain-gop-convention/story?id=17115986&page=2

"...Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor who has been tracking money in the 2012 elections, said he has calculated that 47 individual Americans have given 42 percent of the money in this year's presidential campaign. "We have never had an election, in the last hundred years, that has had this type of money," he said.

That phenomenon has been most evident with a group of $1 million supporters of the Romney campaign called the "Victory Council." While the Romney campaign has kept the identities of his top-level fundraising team a secret, ABC News has been able to track their movements throughout the convention, and has slowly begun to identify them..."