Did Sarah K. Brady, leader of the Brady Bunch, give twice as much money

[jody]

to Republican candidates as she did to Democratic candidates?

Campaign Contributions

Brady, Sarah K to Castle, Michael (R) $500 primary
Brady, Sarah K to Kennedy, Edward (D) $250 general

[UL_Approved]

1. Look at Delaware

This speaks to the state of affairs:

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=DE&last=brady&first=sarah

[DenverDem]

2. She's still a good nazi.

Even after GHW's little plot destroyed her husband.

[RoeBear]

3. Oh crap

is there a conspiracy theory on THAT too?

[DenverDem]

4. Don't you know who Hinkley's brother was having dinner with?

<http://www.parascope.com/mx/articles/bushyknoll.htm>

Yeah, it's all just a coincidence.

[alwynsw]

5. And the big, bad wolf had a deal with Winnie the Pooh

to get the pigs for dinner after he got that little bitch in the scarlet cape out of the hundred acre wood.

Where's my tinfoil hat?

[Name removed]

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[alwynsw]

7. Let's just say that

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Most conspiracy theories hardly qualify as more than axioms.


I guess it's all the Illuminati at work. Yeah. That's the ticket.

Do I really need a sarcasm tag?

[DenverDem]

8. So GHW being on the CIA team that framed Oswald

and the bush family relationship with the Hinkleys are just coincidences?

And your fixation on gun issues is jus a cigar?

[Retired AF Dem]

9. Now according to Peter Jennings

Oswald acted all by himself. Just who do we believe?

People just can't believe that a peon nobody like Oswald could kill someone like Kennedy.

[Columbia]

10. Don't forget he's Deep Throat too

George Herbert Walker Bush, destroyer of 3 Presidencies.

Hey, isn't 3 some kind of magical number for the Illuminati too?

Or was it Skull and Bones?

:tinfoilhat:

[alwynsw]

11. Conspire away! It's your time.

As for my fixation: it's spelled Right To Keep and bear Arms. I take all my rights and freedoms equally seriously.

I take your rights just as seriously. You go ahead and worry about conspiracies, talk about conspiracies, and write about conspiracies and I'll steadfastly defend your right to do so. I just don't agree that everything is a conspiracy.

[jody]

12. Oh but what a cigar, legend has it that it was once used

by Bill and Monica!
:evilgrin:

[iverglas]

13. gee, there's just nothing like a little information

And then there's the whole story.

Delaware:

Brady, Sarah K
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Brady Campaign to Reduce Gun Violence
CASTLE, MICHAEL N (R)
House (DE 01)
CASTLE CAMPAIGN FUND $250
primary 06/26/04

Brady, Sarah K.
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Brady Campaign to Reduce Gun Violence
CASTLE, MICHAEL N (R)
House (DE 01)
CASTLE CAMPAIGN FUND $250
primary 08/30/03

BRADY, SARAH K
DEWEY BEACH, DE 19971
ADVOCATE
BIDEN, JOSEPH R JR (D)
Senate - DC
CITIZENS FOR BIDEN $400
primary 04/29/02


Virginia:

Brady, Sarah
Vienna, VA 22182
Self/Research Analyst
FAIRFAX COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE - FEDERAL (D)
$300
primary 07/17/02

BRADY, SARAH JANE
VIENNA, VA 22182
RESEARCH ANALYST
CORRIGAN, MICHAEL L "MIKE" (D)
House (VA 11)
MIKE CORRIGAN FOR CONGRESS
$250
general 09/21/00

BRADY, SARAH K
ARLINGTON, VA 22202
HANDGUN CONTROL INC
KENNEDY, EDWARD MOORE SENATOR (D)
Senate - DC
KENNEDY FOR SENATE (1994)
$250
general 11/16/95


But gosh, I guess that if one didn't look at ALL the information (although it seems that one did ... since the Democrat mentioned received the oldest donation, and came from a different webpage from the Republican mentioned), one could be honestly confused as to whether Sarah Brady gave more money to Democrats than to Republicans.

Even though in point of fact, when it comes to donations relating to the last full round of federal elections in the US (2002 and 2004), Sarah Brady donated as follows:

Democrats (one candidate and one party committee): $700
Republicans (one candidate): $500

and in the earlier round she donated only to:
Democrats (two candidates): $500

for a total of:
Democrats: $1200
Republican: $500
during the time period in question (1977-2004)

In the last round, the ratio was 700:500 for the Democrats. (I gather that Joe Biden didn't run in 2004, so she could hardly have given him money that year.)

Of course, there's still the whole question of who the one Republican in question was:
http://www.issues2000.org/House/Michael_Castle_Gun_Control.htm

Tsk. Rated "F" by the NRA.


(fixed bad verbal math)

[iverglas]

17. so there's a question on the floor from jody

"Did Sarah K. Brady, leader of the Brady Bunch,
give twice as much money to Republican candidates
as she did to Democratic candidates?"

I think jody knew the answer when he asked it.

The answer is "no".

However, jody cherrypicked a bit of information and reproduced it here:

Brady's donations to Michael N. Castle, a Republican candidate for the US Congress:
$500
(which actually consisted of a $250 donation in the 2003 primary and a $250 donation in the 2004 election; donations listed as made in Delaware)

Brady's donation to Edward M. Kennedy, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate:
$250
(a donation made in 1994; donation listed as made in Virginia)

jody obviously read the data for the two states in question -- Delaware and Virginia -- at the site in question. He chose to report 2 donations made in one state and 1 donation made in the other state -- and not to report 1 other donation made in the first state and 2 other donations made in the second state.

jody obviously made a conscious decision to report the donations made to Castle (R) in 2003 and 2004 and to Kennedy (D) in 1994, BUT NOT TO REPORT the other donations listed at that site:

Brady's donation to Joseph R. Biden, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate:
$400
(a donation made for the 2002 primary, donation listed as made in Delaware)

Brady's donation to the Fairfax County Democratic Committee:
$300
(a donation made for the 2002 primary, donation listed as made in Virginia)

Brady's donation to Michael L. Corrigan, a Democratic candidate for the US Congress:
$250
(a donation made for the 2000 election, donation listed as made in Virginia)

The site that jody linked to reported SIX donations by Sarah Brady in two states, apparently representing all political donations made by Brady from 1977 to 2004.

There is a total of FOUR donations to Democrats and a Democratic committee and TWO donations to a Republican.

There is a total of $1200 donated to Democrats/a Democratic committee and $500 donated to a Republican.

Now here is the question, still on the table:

If jody knew these facts (and jody must be presumed to have known these facts), WHY DID JODY ASK:

"Did Sarah K. Brady, leader of the Brady Bunch,
give twice as much money to Republican candidates
as she did to Democratic candidates?"

And WHY DID JODY REPORT only partial information, which, if understood by a reader to have been complete information, would have led the reader to believe that the answer to his question was "yes", when that answer is FALSE?

And WHY DID JODY NOT SPECIFY that the information he had provided was only partial information and that it was not only an incomplete, but a FALSE representation of the real facts?

If this is the kind of discourse that jody thinks it is appropriate to engage in -- to ask questions to which he knows the answer in a public forum, and to provide a misrepresentation of facts that anyone can foresee will lead the reader to a false conclusion regarding those facts -- then I have a question for him.

Does jody like misleading people better than he likes telling the truth?

Heck, I'm not going to try to influence readers to one conclusion or another. I'll just let them figure the answer out for themselves.

[iverglas]

18. won't ANYONE answer jody's question??

C'mon, that's not polite. Somebody give him an answer, do.

[iverglas]

14. jody asked the question

Will nobody ask him to answer it, uh, correctly?

[iverglas]

15. damn chirping crickets ...

They must be blocking out the sound of jody explaining why he so misrepresented Sarah Brady's political campaign contribution record ... or I'm sure I'd be hearing it ... or at least the voices of Democrats and other truth-seekers raised in a chorus of "why, jody, why?"

[skippythwndrdog]

16. All I see is a record of donations by an enemy of freedom,

a cheap enemy of freeedom, at that. Frankly, I don't give a shit what party's candidates she gives to. All I know is that somebody who receives a donation from her is very likely somebody that I won't vote for.