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Can we stop the garbage of the GOP being the party of Big Business

Steve Driehaus (D-OH1) gets more money from business than Steve Chabot (R-OH1)

By: Leopard1996 (Diary)  |  February 11th, 2010 at 12:17 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As I was eating my non Michelle Obama approved lunch at McDonalds, I picked up a paper that they offered and was treated to this article.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100210/NEWS0108/2110316/1055/NEWS/This+time++money+flows+to+Driehaus

This article pretty much states that Driehaus has outraised Chabot from a number of businesses in the area including Procter and Gamble in which Cincinnati is home base for them. 

Of course this made me cringe on so many levels. My biggest cringe was the hypocrisy of the coverage.   We all know that if this was the GOP or conservative candidate getting money from these same sources, they would be beyond evil. The press would have made sure that this article was put in such a negative light that the candidate could never attempt to try to show any credentials that they care about the middle class.  In this article however this was nothing more than cheerleading with about two or three lines covering Chabot’s reaction.

So now can we drop the pretense that the GOP is the party of big business and that the Democrat party is such the party of the little guy?

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  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    Then we will all learn to love Big Business (aka Big Brother).

    (To answer your question)

  • Richard Mullins

    so the leftist media doesn’t want people to know that. It’s not surprising that Procter and Gamble have given more money to Driehaus than Chabot since there big MoveOn.org supporters.

  • Leopard1996

    In the article the P&G PAC representative stated that they only give to one candidate, and they normally give to the incumbent as long as the incumbent votes their way on issues that are important to them. I am sure that the MoveOn.org support was also key to this as well. I am still curious as to what Driehaus voted for, or promised that is in line with a business trying to survive in a severe recession. I am pretty sure mandates of health care, and taking away the tax benefits of offering a health plan was not on that list.