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TAKEN OUR AMERICAN TARP BAILOUT $$ AND USING IT 2 CONTROL STATE & FEDERAL ELECTION$
by LFPA VOLUNTEERS Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 at 2:14 AM

KARL ROVES BILLIONAIRE CABAL USED STOLEN TARP BAILOUT $$ IN THEIR SECRET 501C4 POLITICAL SLU$H ACCOUNTS AND THE REST OF AMERICA CAN NOT EVEN INVESTIGATE OR CORRECT THAT CORRUPTED ACT ???

THE UNTOLD BILLION$ IN STOLEN AMERICAN TARP BAILOUT FUNDING THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE SENT INTO THESE SECRET 501C4 KARL ROVE STYLE POLITICAL SLU$H ACCOUNTS OVER THE NEXT 20
YEARS WILL CONTINUE PLAYING HAVOC WITH FAIR little Americans FUTURE U.S. ELECTION$....

AFTER WITNESSING THE 5 CONSERVATIVE U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES POLITICAL HEIST FOR OUR
AMERICAN BILLIONAIRE ELITE AND THEIR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS LAST JANUARY,IT PLEASE US VERY MUCH HERE AT LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS TO SEE ONE OF THE POLITICAL VICTIMS OF OUR PAST SECRET STOLEN TARP BAILOUT ELECTIONS WILLING TO COME FORWARD TO LEAD THE CHARGE FOR FUTURE CORRECTIONS OF THIS VERY DEVIOUS,DECEPTIVE AND VERY WELL PLANNED AMERICAN ELECTIVE POLITICAL FINANCING PROCESS CARRIED OUT BEHIND THE SCENE BY THIS BILLIONAIRE ELITE KARL ROVE INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL CABAL PLAYER$.


THEY STOLE BILLION$ OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS $$ FROM THE GEORGE BUSH JR ~ KARL ROVE WALL
STREET ~BANKERS ~ PONZI BOGUS TARP BAILOUT AND SENT THEM DIRECTLY INTO THOSE SECRET 501C4 POLITICAL SLU$H ACCOUNTS TO FINANCE SWIFT BOAT STYLE POLITICAL HIT ADS ALL ACROSS AMERICA...

THIS CORRUPTED U.S. SUPREME COURT LEGAL DECISION LAST JANUARY ENACTED BY OUR 5
CONSERVATIVE U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES CHANGED THE COMPLEXION OF AMERICAN ELECTION$
BECAUSE THESE STOLEN BILLIONS FROM THE WALL STREET BANKERS TARP WILL ENABLE THIS ELITE
CABAL TO CONTINUE FINANCING THEIR CHOSEN FEDERAL AND STATE POLITICAL CANDIDATES FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS+ WITHOUT ANYONE BEING THE SMARTER ON BEING ABLE TO PROVE WHERE THE POLITICAL SECRET 501C4 SLU$H FUNDING EVER ORIGINATED FROM !!!

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS APPLAUDS THIS HONEST AND CARING FORMER U.S. SENATOR RUSS
FEINGOLD AND ENCOURAGE ALL little American voters TO JOIN THIS WORTHY AND NEEDED POLITICAL
MOVEMENT (Progressive United ) TO HELP SAVE OUR FUTURE POLITICAL ELECTIVE PROCESS FROM BEING
SECRETLY PURCHASED THROUGH OUR MEDIA AIRWAVES BY THIS DEVIOUS BEHIND THE CURTAIN ELITE CABAL..

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Russ Feingold Launches 'Progressives United' To Combat Corporate Influences In Politics

AMANDA TERKEL (HUFFPOST REPORTING)
aterkel@huffingtonpost.com

First Posted: 02/16/11

Read More: Citizens United, Citizens United v. FEC, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,DISCLOSE Act, Elections 2012, Gilded Age, McCain Feingold, Mccain-Feingold, Progressive Movement,Progressives, Progressives United, Russ Feingold, Senator Russ Feingold, Political News



WASHINGTON -- When some senators retire, they decide to take lucrative lobbying jobs. Others gostraight to Wall Street. But Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold, who lost his re-election bid in November, is continuing on his principled -- and often lonely -- path by starting an organization to combat corporate influence in politics, an effort he hopes will spark "a new progressive movement" that will truly hold elected officials accountable.

Launching on Wednesday, Progressives United is an attempt to to build a grassroots effort aimed at mitigating the effects of, and eventually overturning, the Supreme Court's infamousCitizens United decision that opened the floodgates to corporate spending in the U.S. electoral system. In addition to online mobilization, the political action committee (PAC) will support progressive candidates at the local, state and national levels, as well as holding the media and elected officials accountable on the group's key priorities.

"In my view -- and the view of many people -- it's one of the most lawless decisions in the history of our country," said Feingold of Citizens United in an interview with The Huffington Post. "The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously. That's exactly what it does ... Things were like this 100 years ago in the United States, with the huge corporate and business power of the oil companies and others. But this time it's like the Gilded Age on steroids."

Feingold, who is now also teaching law school at Marquette University and writing a book on foreign policy, has first-hand experience with the effects of big money in politics. While he shunned outside spending on his behalf in his campaigns, his 2010 opponent, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, was the beneficiary of millions of dollars from conservative interest groups. After his win, Johnson even went to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's national headquarters topersonally thank CEO Tom Donohue for the lobbying group's unsolicited support of his candidacy.

Feingold said that Progressives United will follow the example of his own campaigns and not take any soft money or unlimited contributions. "We're going to be reporting every dime that we get, whether required by law or not," he insisted. "Every penny of every contribution -- a practice I used as a U.S. senator. So it will be very different from the 527s and other groups that have been spawned by Citizens United. It will be 100 percent accountable, and that is an important principle that I believe in that we'll follow to the T with Progressives United, as a way of contrasting it to what's going on with the corporate money power that's been unleashed by Citizens United."

Looking back on his time in the Senate, Feingold cited two examples of corporate influence that most troubled him: 1) the debate over the estate tax and 2) the BP disaster.

"I was amazed at the way in which the corporate powers in the country turned the conversation from everything we needed to deal with -- from stopping unwise interventions overseas to having to deal with the deficit -- to things like demanding complete repeal of the estate tax," said Feingold. "There were 10 years there we didn't have an estate tax because all of the powerful, corporate, wealthy interests in the country said, 'We want this now. We don't want to have to pay any estate tax at all.'"

He pointed to the BP oil disaster as an example of how corporate influence can permeate the executive branch, which turned the agencies who were supposed to be enforcing the laws into "tools of the oil industry," a reference to the oversight problems at the federal Minerals Management Service.

Campaign finance reform advocates have been discouraged by the new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives attempting to dismantle the structure of checks that were put in place following the Watergate scandal, and have called on President Obama to take a larger role in shedding light on the issue.

White House officials originally considered having the President reiterate his support for the DISCLOSE Act during his State of the Union (SOTU) address, but it ended up getting nixed because of time constraints.

"[I]t's not for any lack of enthusiasm about the issue because we feel very, very strongly about it and we're going to continue to push for it," White House senior adviser David Axelrod told The Huffington Post. "There are a number of things that got trimmed out at the end just because, to be brutally frank, as we ran through the speech it was fairly lengthy and we just cut it down."

Feingold applauded the President for criticizing Citizens United in his 2010 SOTU speech -- prompting an unhappy response from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was in the audience -- but he would like to see him do more on the issue.

"I would like the President to take it up a few notches on this issue, and I hope he will in the coming year and in the campaign next year," said Feingold, adding, "I'm hoping the President will recognize that what we're trying to do here is begin a new progressive movement that will hold our elected officials accountable."
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