Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star Wakes Up: Reports On IMS' Influence Peddling To Buy Votes For Its $100 Million State Giveway

The Campaign Finance system in US has been always ...

2013-02-23T10:25:43.053-05:00

The Campaign Finance system in US has been always been ripe fruit for corruption and/or influence peddling.

One solution might be at Federal and State Levels, that you must be able to vote to contribute to a Political Campaign, with limits on the amounts. This would eliminate any non-human from contributing to a candidates political campaign.

Part of the contribution is not so much the money, but you are identified as a "Friend" of the contributor. Basically, you have your political passport stamped by important influential people. This is important in attracting other Friends of your contributor to donate also to you or the least not to donate to your opponent.

The duplicity of our current system is sometimes revealed when Mr. Rich donates to both candidates running for the same office.

They've always given free tickets to the counc...

2013-02-22T10:08:17.027-05:00

They've always given free tickets to the councilors, and they've always contributed to whoever is the mayor. It is only more recent that they've started throwing money at council candidates, although they've given money in the past to the local parties.

What's weird is the IMS has been giving to the...

2013-02-22T08:35:22.404-05:00

What's weird is the IMS has been giving to the Councillors and the Mayor's campaigns, too. Mostly D Councillors from my casual look through a couple of weeks ago. Mostly $250 each.