]> http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2007/10/19/new-players-old-game Comments for "New Players, Old Game" en http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2007/10/19/new-players-old-game#comment-86964 Katie, clean elections is a nice platitude. However, as long as one group is trying to gain power over the other, there will always be dirty money, bloody money and drug money that creep into the collection baskets from the underworld leaders trying to gain influence. On the other side along with welfare checks, pension checks, union dues, big fat contributors, religious leaders trying to gain influence over society by convincing their congregations that God stands on one side or the other and always against the opossing team. The saddness is that while we talk democracy to the world, our leaders are willing to lie, cheat, steal and maybe even kill to gain power over the people for themselves and their friends. Every election cycle people are being disinfranchised. Under Saddam we called it dictatorship, here we call it democracy, another name for WIN AT ANY COST. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:41:32 +0000 http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2007/10/19/new-players-old-game Hillary Clinton seems to be collecting a lot of donors from an unusual demographic: a transient group of immigrants in New York&#39;s Chinatown. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,1976718,full.story?coll=la-home-center">This article </a>in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> is interesting in its exploration of why this population gives such large sums relative to its income, what forces are compelling this surge in donations by a population that seldom votes, and how social pressure and hope for personal gain fuel political giving. Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:50:32 +0000