Majority Leader Harry Reid. Campaign Contributions.

[L. Coyote]

Given the telecom immunity issue, I decided to look closer at Harry Reid's money.
No telecoms to be found here! Lots of lobbyists and law firms though, including Akin, Gump.

HARRY REID (D-NV) http://opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00009922&cycle=2008
Top Contributors

MGM Mirage               $125,050
Boyd Gaming               $81,749
Simmons Cooper            $73,400
Lionel, Sawyer & Collins  $47,400
Harrah's Entertainment    $46,750
Akin, Gump et al          $43,500
Baron & Budd              $37,000
Citigroup Inc             $34,750
Station Casinos           $32,200
Waters & Kraus            $31,650

2003-2008 Fundraising: http://opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00009922&cycle=2008

Raised:   $11,821,068
Spent:     $8,304,222
Cash:      $1,946,291

The top industries supporting Harry Reid are: http://opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00009922&cycle=2008
Lawyers/Law Firms 	$1,241,090
Casinos/Gambling 	$610,563
Real Estate 	        $398,511
Health Professionals 	$299,450
Lobbyists 	        $297,708

[Selatius]

1. Nothing against gaming interests, but I have a lot against Citigroup, Inc.

Bankers have only sabotaged this current economy with their own greed.

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[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. He doesn't have the stomach, the gonads, the will, the leadership

to be effective. Period. :mad:

[L. Coyote]

8. take ur meds

[tom_paine]

9. The standard weak ad hominem bullshit of someone who has nothing to say

I understand. Your ego would have to be asleep at the switch not to throw up walls of defense to be shown your hypocrisy and laughability so starkly in such a way that if you were to look directly at it, your head would explode.

This is not to say I am any better than you, I'm not. We are all primates with huge egos. We are all ruled by our own inner monkey.

I have no doubt that, where in my life and beliefs that I have such a lunatic laughable hypocrisy, I would behave exactly as you just did.

By being a primate myself, that is a certainty. Being a primate it is also a certainty that I cannot see it in myself, and if someone saw it and tried to throw it in my face, as I did to you, I would undoubtedly react the same way, like getting tapped in the knee by the rubber mallet at the doctor's. Being a primate means being able to see the blind spots of others, but never quite being able to see one's own. It the whole reason our Daytime Talk Show Circuit has exploded meteorically because it taps into that basic human/primate truth.

So please, feel free to throw some more monkey-poop with your next reply. I'm not sure if that first bout of poop-throwing was enough to "scratch that itch". Please feel free to come back with some higher levels of vitriol and ad hominem personal attacks.

I am sure it will make you feel better and will release some of that ego-steam from your valve.

Might I make a suggestion for some points of attack to try and mentally brutalize me with? The most obvious would be to attack my description of yours and my and every human beings' primate-condition (I am sure there are some exceptions out there somewhere, but I have never met one and I am certain that I am not one, that's for sure) as psychobabble nonsense.

Then you could follow it up with a personal attack that is carefully veiled (but not so carefully that I shouldn't be easily able to to understand it and be hurt by it, if possible) as a heated attack on my "psychobabble".

:rofl:

But I want to leave some room for you to get creative, so I won't give you any more of my ideas. I am sure you want to give your upcoming defense mechanism/personal attack your own unique flair and imprimatur, as I would want to put mine on it if the situation was reversed.

(maybe it is, I wouldn't be able to tell anyway, being a primate myself)

:hi: fellow primate!

Anyway, good luck with shutting your ears and eyes to it all. I apologize for so directly showing you you hypocrisy and for :rofl: so much but that is my instant reaction to such a high level of upside-down-ism, especially lo, these last seven years.

[L. Coyote]

3. Telephone Utilities: Top Contributors to Federal Candidates and Parties

Telephone Utilities: Top Contributors to Federal Candidates and Parties
http://opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=B08&cycle=2008

2008 Total contributions: $2,834,423  http://opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=B08&cycle=2008

1 AT&T Inc    $1,462,730
2 Verizon       $565,513
3 IDT Corp      $116,043
4 Embarq Corp    $98,500

They are pouring tons of money into the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Telephone Utilities: Top 20 Recipients http://opensecrets.org/industries/recips.asp?Ind=B08&cycle=2008

McCain     $176,800
Clinton    $106,300
Obama       $87,236
Emanuel     $47,450
Rockefeller $44,500
Giuliani    $38,150
Pryor       $25,450
Romney      $25,200
Terry       $24,500
Stevens     $23,900
	

[L. Coyote]

5. Senator JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV) Top Contributors

JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV)

2008 Top Contributors http://opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00001685&cycle=2008

K&L Gates $34,100
AT&T Inc $32,500
Verizon $30,500
UAL Corp $28,100
Comcast $28,000

2006 Top Contributors http://opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00001685&cycle=2006

K&L $21,500
Delta Air $20,550
PepsiCo $19,000
Info MC $18,000
AT&T Inc $16,000

[L. Coyote]

6. AT&T Inc Top Recipients Among Federal Candidates

AT&T Inc Top Recipients Among Federal Candidates,

1990-2008 http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000076&Type=P&Cycle=A
George W. Bush (R)  $286,420
John McCain (R-AZ)  $179,900
R. Gephardt (D-MO)  $164,950
John Kerry (D-MA)   $136,797
J. Dingell (D-MI)   $119,424
Conrad Burns (R-MT) $116,100
D. Hastert (R-IL)   $112,550


Top Recipients, 2008 Cycle http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000076&Type=P&Sort=A&Cycle=2008
Emanuel, Rahm (D-IL)  $48,450
Obama, Barack (D-IL)  $43,483
Clinton, H. (D-NY)    $42,400
Rockefeller (D-WV)    $24,350
McCain, John (R-AZ)   $21,700

Top Recipients, 2006 Cycle http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000076&Type=P&Sort=A&Cycle=2006
Ferguson, Mike (R-NJ)  $63,450
Hastert, Dennis (R-IL) $33,500
Sununu, John E (R-NH)  $22,500
Bonilla, Henry (R-TX)  $22,200
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)    $22,000
Ensign, John (R-NV)    $20,750
Sessions, Pete (R-TX)  $20,500
Allen, George (R-VA)   $19,250
Bode, Denise (R-OK)    $18,550
DeMint, James W (R-SC) $18,500
Pickering, C. (R-MS)   $18,500
Clinton, H. (D-NY)     $18,150

Top Recipients, 2004 Cycle http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000076&Type=P&Sort=A&Cycle=2004
Bush, George W (R)   $212,920
Kerry, John (D-MA)    $93,547

[L. Coyote]

7. Verizon Communications - Top Recipients Among Federal Candidates

Verizon Communications - Top Recipients Among Federal Candidates,

1990-2008 http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000079&Type=P&Cycle=A
George W. Bush (R)   $145,980
John Kerry (D-MA)    $135,948
Eliot Engel (D-NY)    $98,000
H. Clinton (D-NY)     $94,930
R. Menendez (D-NJ)    $93,077
John McCain (R-AZ)    $90,750


2008 http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000079&Type=P&Sort=A&Cycle=2008
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY)  $27,150
Obama, Barack (D-IL)     $22,753
Rockefeller, Jay (D-WV)  $22,500
Baucus, Max (D-MT)       $22,000
McCain, John (R-AZ)      $19,350
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)      $17,900


2006 Cycle http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000079&Type=P&Sort=A&Cycle=2006
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY)  $55,980
Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)  $33,000
Engel, Eliot L (D-NY)    $32,000
Ferguson, Mike (R-NJ)    $28,250
Ensign, John (R-NV)      $25,000
Kennedy, Edward M (D-MA) $24,150
Kyl, Jon (R-AZ)          $18,900


2004 Cycle http://opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000079&Type=P&Sort=A&Cycle=2004
Bush, George W (R)      $104,300
Kerry, John (D-MA)       $69,080
Engel, Eliot L (D-NY)    $23,000
Daschle, Tom (D-SD)      $20,250