desh | money where my mouth is

After the Pennsylvania primaries in 3 and a half weeks, I'll have earned $120 for my job as Judge of Election. So I decided, what better way to spend that money than to put it back into politics? I don't necessarily need the extra money, but some candidates out there need every cent.

So I've donated $60 to Ned Lamont, who is running against Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary for the CT seat in Senate. Lieberman is a Republican in Democrat's clothing. He's the first to applaud Bush at the state of the union addresses, and he's the first to go on Fox News to make the latest bad Republican policy into a "bipartisan initiative". Connecticut can do better.

I've also donated $60 to the PA Democratic Senate General Election Fund. Whoever wins the Democratic primary needs all the help he can get to beat Santorum, the political establishment's most outspoken member against women's rights, in November. I'm not the world's biggest Casey fan, and having a pro-life Democratic senator to go along with our pro-choice Republican one might not be my ideal state of affairs. But I'm downright embarrassed to say that Santorum represents me in any way whatsoever, and I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure that he no longer does in 2007.

Help out, won't you?

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Look, I'm as liberal as the next Northeastern Jewish Bleeding-Heart-Liberal, but take this into consideration--

you are stating, on the public web no less, that you will be using your taxpayer funded salary to sponsor 1 political party? I'm not saying that you shouldn't be able to do whatever you like with your money--it's a free country, and you should be able to give your money to a well-armed cult if you want. I don't know, do you think there's anything to this? Did you think about this at all before donating?

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and yes, Santorum is the frothy mixture of lube and shit that sometimes results from anal sex. Viva la Savage!

Why is this a problem? Are you suggesting that no public employees (teachers, senators, firefighters, etc.) should be allowed to make political contributions?

I might feel a bit iffy about this if I were in a politically-related but non-elected position. I might do it anyway, but I'd want to make sure to avoid the appearance of receiving patronage money.

But since I was elected (however bizarre and atypical that election was), I feel I have the right to spend my salary (however small that salary is) in whatever way I want. If the people in my division don't like it, they don't have to vote for me next time.

I think, uh, George Bush does it. Also Rick Santorum, eg. And all of them.

-Your malarial, communist friend

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