Monday, November 5, 2012

The Billion-Dollar Buy: Secret money funds GOP door-knockers

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83330.html?hp=t1_3


if you except payment then it's for whatever the payer wants you to do.
There’s so much secret money in conservative politics that even volunteers are getting paid — and paid well.
Grassroots activists who used to knock on doors and make phone calls for free are the latest beneficiaries of the historic spending spree to defeat President Barack Obama and elect GOP lawmakers.
Deep-pocketed nonprofit groups — funded by unlimited, and mostly undisclosed, contributions — are offering canvassers and phone bankers wages upwards of $15 an hour and dangling perks such as performances by 3 Doors Down, drawings to win iPads and the chance to stay in a “posh hotel,” POLITICO has learned.
Pants on Fire!and they accused the Pres. of giving cell phones to supporters how repulsively dishonest 
Liberals, in fact, blazed the path for paid independent canvassing, with unions and environmental groups routinely compensating door-knockers — to say nothing of the 2004 effort by America Coming Together, which used a good portion of the $137 million it raised from rich liberals like George Soros to pay activists to go door-to-door.
Republicans this year were determined to catch up. It's the free market at work — and a fitting conclusion to an election where a network of independent super PACs and nonprofit groups that form a sort of shadow Republican Party is in the final stages of a planned $1-billion campaign.
to be so critical they sure use a lot of our ideas like ACA and internet for money raising and that parcel of Pres.'s ideas Romney said he agreed with showed that as Rush put it "love for another man". or his ideas.
Dems raised millions for their effort the republicans billions. who had the more aggressive agenda millions or billions?