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Steve Mostyn, 41, a Houston-based personal injury attorney, said he was inspired by President Barack Obama's performance in the Oct. 16 debate to donate another $1 million to a Democratic Super PAC run by former White House aides.
A wealthy Texas trial lawyer -- known as the king of hurricane torts -- wired $1 million to the main Super PAC backing President Barack Obama late last week, solidifying his standing as one of the chief bankrollers of Democratic causes in this year’s election.
With his latest seven figure donation, Houston personal injury lawyer Steve Mostyn -- an ardent foe of tort reform -- has now contributed $3 million to Priorities USA Action, a Super PAC run by two former White House aides. His latest contribution -- in addition to another $500,000 given by his wife to an allied group -- underscores the heavy reliance of Democratic Super PACs on a small number of mega donors. (Super PACs are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions and individuals.)
Mostyn told NBC News that he agreed to wire the additional $1 million last week after watching the second debate at Hofstra University on Long Island and getting energized by the president’s more forceful performance than during the first debate.
“I needed to see some fight,” he said of the president’s performance. He also said he expects the Super PAC to use his cash to help fund more attack ads hammering Republican rival Mitt Romney over his Bain Capital past, portraying him as a heartless executive who destroys jobs rather than creates them. Although Priorities USA Action ads (and Obama campaign ads) hit that theme hard over the summer, now is when “you’re speaking to low-information voters,” Mostyn said.
New campaign finance reports filed over the weekend show the Obama Super PAC is in relatively good shape to send the message. The group reported that it collected $15.2 million in September – outraising Restore Our Future, the main pro-Romney Super PAC, for the second month in a row. (This figure predates Mostyn’s latest cash infusion.)
While GOP Super PACs have still outraised and so far outspent their Democratic counterparts, the combined total of $31.4 million raised by Priorities USA and its two allies (Majority PAC and House Majority PAC) shows they are now fully armed to compete against an expected pro-GOP ad blitz in the last two weeks.
But while the Obama campaign has touted its reliance on small donors, the most striking feature of the latest Democratic Super PAC numbers is the outsized role played by just a handful of super-rich mega donors in funding the group.
Of the $52 million that Priorities USA Action has raised for the entire election cycle, $19 million (or nearly 40) percent came from just six individuals. Besides Mostyn, these include: Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks Animation, who has given $3 million; Fred Eychaner, a Chicago based media mogul whose print empire includes the Chicago Reader, who has given $3.5 million; James Simons, the hedge fund billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies, who has given $3.5 million; Irwin Jacobs, a San Diego billionaire and the founder and former CEO of Qualcomm ($2 million); and Jon Stryker, a philanthropist and gay rights activist ($2 million.) Other big donations to Priorities USA Action last month included $1 million from director Steven Spielberg, $1 million from famed trial lawyer David Boies (who argued for Al Gore in the 2000 Florida recount case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court) and $300,000 from Sam Walton, the chairman of Walmart.
The mega donor phenomenon is hardly unique to the Democrats, of course. These donations still pale next to the $40 million that Las Vegas gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson has funneled this cycle into GOP Super PACs, including $10 million to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future. And the Romney Super PAC reported that Bob Perry, the publicity shy Texas homebuilder best known for helping fund the Swift Boat ads against John Kerry in 2004, gave another $2 million last month, bringing his total donations to $9 million. That means that Perry and Adelson alone have accounted for nearly 20 percent of the Restore Our Future’s total $111 million haul.
Twinned with Perry’s cash, the Mostyn donations to Priorities USA Action gives the presidential contest the flavor of a Texas grudge match. The two men have been among the major funders of the years-long fight in Texas over tort reform. Perry (whose home-building company has been hit with massive multimillion-dollar lawsuits brought by trial lawyers) has helped bankroll Texans for Lawsuit Reform, a pro-business group that has fought to rein in lawsuits. Mostyn, who has specialized in mass class-action lawsuits brought by hurricane victims, has been a major financier of the opposition.
A past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Mostyn has also been a somewhat controversial figure in state legal circles. He’s known as “Hurricane Mostyn” due to the class-action lawsuit he brought against the Texas Wind Insurance Association (TWIA) on behalf of the victims of Hurricane Ike, which devastated the Texas coast in 2008. The lawsuit, alleging the mishandling of insurance claims, led to a $189 million settlement -- $86 million of which reportedly went in fees to his law firm. That, in turn, triggered an increase in premium payments by the TWIA and calls by Republicans in the state Legislature to curb what were called the association’s “out-of-control legal expenses.”
Like most big donors, Mostyn tells NBC News that his main concern is good government, not any special benefits he might receive from the White House (such as his private meeting with the president last spring at the W Hotel after he gave his first $2 million to Priorities USA Action.) He said he shares the general liberal distaste for Super PACs, but given the vast amounts flowing into the GOP Super PACs, he was persuaded to contribute to Priorities USA Action by Paul Begala and Bill Burton during a meeting aboard his yacht last spring: “You don’t bring a knife to a gun fight,” he said.
Michael Isikoff is a national investigative correspondent for NBC News.
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Where is the uproar about people giving to PAC's? And buying the elections.
PACs suck but at least they're not undisclosed donors able to bankroll millions. That's a bit different. :)
Jeff must have missed the report on the massive amount of anonymous foreign donors to Obama's campaign.
That's got to be a joke. Buying an election?. No one does it better than Mitt Bain Romney.
The best propaganda mill since Nazi Germany.
Keep telling yourself that jb,
Noone is better at conning America than Obama. People on the left that complain about the money on the right are nothing but hypocrites! You are just too coward to admit that you are just attached to the teet of your donors as the Republicans. Hypocrites like you are why the vast majority of Americans loath the party of the left....
Keep telling yourself that JK1963. You probably forgot all about the previous administration that pulled the wool over the eyes of sheep like you. Now you're swallowing the kool-ade from the Mitt campaign. Some people just love being made the fool I guess.
Forbes: For A Better Economy, Vote Democratic:
• Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
• Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
• Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
• Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
• The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
We either get Rommnisia or Obankrupt. The voters lose either way. Golly gee wow........................
Gemini John; us Geminis have that extra persona that allows us to view things from many angles - those other 11 months got stuck in bubble-land...lol. It's a good thing we are tolerant.
I am against the Citizens United Decision that has caused the flood gates for billionaires who want everything their way. I want Citizens United overturned and the sooner the better.
Good
Bad
Most lawyers are sleezebags, this guy is an idiot as well.
@GermanGen, Why is he an idiot, now is this just your opinion or something you were told? What happen in your life to judge a man for a donation, did he get that money from you or your friends? Did he work for that money or did he just steal it like the Repub's/Tp are trying to Buy this election? I just saying it seems harsh to be judging anyone, on the bases of a donation......... I got it he did not give it to your party wow now thats note worthy........
Most Lawyers chase ambulances, This lawyer chases Obama votes!
no this is a case of a lawyer who does both.
JB Roth--I DO hope you weren't implying that LBJ was some noble POL? He went to DC as a Congressman, Absolutley DEAD broke. Umpty years later, he had parleyed that into beinga multimillionaire, thanks to the system on those days that allowed Congressment and Senators to 'supplement' their salary by getting $25K a night giving speeches to private groups.
And of the three most influential Dems of that decade--JFK, RFK, and LBJ, BOBBY was the one who pushed for the Civil rights.
The other two got all the credit.
but a rich idiot anyhow
geewizz-6485144 There is no way he did 86 million dollars in "work". Duh
Trial attorneys are the largest dollar contributing group to Democrats. Now you know why your insurance is so high. Johnny Edwards made millions but I think it's being depleted by, yep, more attorneys. Justice I guess.
Source please? Oh, it's just ANOTHER RW NAZITYPE lie?
Thanks for playing. NEXT
Most trial attorneys are inclined to be liberal because they hate the injustice coming from those cons on the right so they fight for the little guy. In contrast those on the right tend to be bullies that have a sadistic attitude to stick it to a sucker.
Just my independent observation.
As far as John Edwards is concerned, he was acquitted of charges that were trumped up by the right wing cons with a vendetta against him. He was no more guilty of those charges than you.
Larry - if the trial lawyers are for the little guy, why do they charge 35% fees of any money taken???? They are out for themselves and no one else.....this lawyer is against tort reform....all of these court cases are one of the reasons medical expenses are so high....go back to your mother's basement and turn on your video games...
KJB, tort reform does nothing to lower medical expenses. Texas has had Tort Reform for a long time and the Medical fees here are as high or higher than any other state. So that sort of shoots you theory in the butt.
KJB-1929034
Obviously you don't know Jack Squat about business markup/profit... which is typically 30%-35% if not more these days. A bottle of wine at the store is $10, at a restaurant the same wine is $10 a glass. A contractor gives you a quote, he figures in parts and labor then adds the 35% markup... its biz 101! And the reason for the high cost of medical fee's is plain old American greed, not lawsuits (Reich-wing talking point/ Bush lie http://www.factcheck.org/president_uses_dubious_statistics_on_costs_of.html ) as medical malpractice claims are a mere one-fifth of 1 percent of health care costs.... go back to your mother's basement and turn on your video games...
Gov Hater--sorry, but no one MAKES me pay the vintner of that $10 bottle of wine that YOU drink. But when a HUGE lawsuit gets paid, we ALL pay a portion of that.
When you pay a contractor, I don't have to pay him too, but in a lawsuit against a builder, ALL our insuarance rates go up.
And that's why they have meetings on their private yachts!
Happy again
and Corporations show up with a Cruise Ship of Lawyers to fight back.
why do only the rightwing idiots spread outrageous, outright falsehoods, the Left doesn't engage in such, although I'm beginning to wonder if we should, nah, we're better than them. If there's an outrageous fantasy lie out there, it's almost 100% from the right, look at that GermanGem joker above. It's all variations on the same theme: Obama - make up anything, throw it out there and there'll be some phools who'll believe it, Phuckednoose types of course. You just don't see anything like that from the Left. That is a good thing. In spite of the zillions, Romney will still lose. In spite of voter suppression, Romney will still lose. And that's a good thing.
HAHA!
The left are liars, cheats and thieves! Of COURSE you'll vote for Obama...more bullish*t for another 4 years!
NO THANK YOU
Are you high? Only right wingers lie...or make things up? Divided America built its foundation with people like you. Using the word idiot to describe them is even more ironic
Romney look like a deer in headlights tonight. Ran out of lies.
@ Robert Turner-6811384,
I actually thought he looked like a man that was suffering a severe case of constipation, you know that feeling of needing to go but can't. The strain is over whelming, little beads of sweet seem to pool in his pores. At any moment I expected him to let lose but that never seemed to happen. I thought for sure the horse and bayonet would do it but nothing. I did find it interesting how he claimed President Obama showed weakness to the world when it was he Romney that ran off to France during a war. How weak is that? It looks to me like that same weakness he claims the world see in our President they must see in Willard and his whole family but that's a different post.
Confussed--did you vote for CLINTON? He ran off to ENGLAND during that same war. SO DID ANY intelligent draft age guy. Only difference was, CLINTON, who was there on a Fulbright Scholarship (which says he was very smart) PUBLICLY PROTESTED that same Vietnam war WHILE evading serving in it.
And sorry, but you can't compare with Obama, since there WAS no draft when he to to be an 18 year old.
PS--I understand a MARINE tweeted that the MARINES still use bayonettes, AND that in Afghanistan, our troops ride horses ALOT. Many of the roads NOT being conducive to tanks.
And Confussed--I VOTED for Clinton, twice, and for Gore, Kerry, and Obama.
And I'll be voting for ROMNEY this time. "It's the economy, stupid!"
MOmaid: Keep that name, with romney that's the only job you'll get, maybe. A couple months ago, the Guardian wrote an article saying that Americans are too dumb to vote for the better man, President Obama. The consensus was that if Americans allowed the USSC to choose their president, bush/cheney, Americans are much lower on the evolutionary scale than is thought. A vote for Bishop Romney proves it.
Momaid.....anyone asking why Romney caused an automobile accident while driving recklessly in France which killed his missionary boss's wife while he was dodging military service? George covered this up?(!)..Just curious..google it up! ALSO...Obama said "fewer" bayonets & horses not "NO" bayonets & horses.. try to listen comprehensively next time.
Steve Mostyn--an "ardent opponent of tort reform" is just another liberal whore. Plaintiffs attorneys have long supported Democrats for one reason and one reason only--money.
Source please? Oh, it's just ANOTHER RW NAZITYPE lie?
Thanks for playing. NEXT
GovtReform: "
Source please? Oh, it's just ANOTHER RW NAZITYPE lie?
Thanks for playing. NEXT"
I have known numerous trial lawyers, and from car wrecks to nuisance prop 65 (California) or ADA suits, lawyers deserve every bit of scorn society heaps upon them. But you probably recycle your little borrowed phrase because you live off suing decent people.
wazoo--the article acknowleges that MOST 'trial lawyers' are DEMS.
You know why SHARKS won't attack a Lawyer?
Professional courtesy.
Until you need one!
Does your mom know you're home from school this early? Be sure the door is locked.
@reasonablewomanny...I sense that you don't or perhaps cannot, fully comprehend the concept of Tort Reform! Please educate yourself prior to attempting to attach a widely misunderstood legal process to partisan politics!
And where is all your disgust when the Kock Bros and A Stevenson donate millions to Robme? Hypocrites
You mean Cock brothers! :-)
Hey Mr. Mostyn, I have $90,000 in bachelor and grad degree loans you can off!! Thanks to Obama he cut the amount grad students could have in order to attain higher education therefore graduate students had to take loans out from placed like Direct loans who charge an outrageous interest rate. Better yet, you could offer that 1 million dollars to all the starving kids in the US or help come up with a better welfare program that makes dead beats get off their ass and get a job. You can't find anything better to do with that 1 million dollars than offer it to a president who has done nothing of what he originally stated??? I am honestly sorry that you are a Texas. What a shame......
Source please? Oh, it's just ANOTHER RW NAZITYPE lie?
Thanks for playin. NEXT
To Home Sweet Texas As Samuel L Jackson would say Wake The F*** Up! Have u seen the Ryan budget and how the Republicans plan on cutting Loans and Pells. Get Real.
@Home Sweet Texas,
Here a few things done out the gate below there are plenty more for your viewing pleasure, I am sure you do not know what you are talking about. Please visit the site for more information and there are other sites as well who support the job the President has done including site like: RepublicansforObama.org
While I am aware you have not used facts for you statement, but what you were told. Please note these have citations so that you can look up each one if you dare look for the truth……… It is said that if you keep your mouth closed people can only think you to be a fool, but when you open your mouth, you leave no doubt……….
http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/what-has-obama-done-since-january-20-2009.html
The President’s Done A Lot!
He Returned The Executive Branch To Fiscal Responsibility After the Bush Debacle
1. Within his first week, he signed an Executive Order ordering an audit of government contracts, and combating waste and abuse. http://1.usa.gov/dUvbu5
2. Created the post of Chief Performance Officer, whose job it is to make operations more efficient to save the federal government money. http://n.pr/hcgBn1
3. On his first full day, he froze White House salaries. http://on.msnbc.com/ewJUIx
4. He appointed the first Federal Chief Information Officer to oversee federal IT spending. http://www.cio.gov
5. He committed to phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems. To that end, he also signed the Democratic-sponsored Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act, which attempted to put a stop to waste, fraud and abuse in the defense procurement and contracting system. http://bit.ly/hOw1t1 http://bit.ly/fz8GAd
6. Through an executive order, he created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. http://bit.ly/hwKhKa
1) You've never been a grad student... we can tell from the writing. (Considering composition of some sort is usually the core of a graduate program).
2) You at once complain about a lack of grants and criticize welfare recipients.
And again, if you were to have grad school debts... you could've worked as a T.A.
Shawn--sorry to say this, but being able to read and write correctly is NOT a requirement for getting into college or grad school. If you don't know grammar, or cannot spell, or correctly use punctuation, thank a union teacher.
That is especially true if your college degree of study is in the math/science fields. You don't even have to speak ENGLISH for that.
And sorry, but there are NOT enough TA jobs to go around, and they usually only offset part of your tuition.
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned Monday afternoon that if Congress fails to limit campaign donations from the wealthy, a group of 'angry, old white men' with billions of dollars to contribute will be able to determine political outcomes in the United States."
Hey Harry.... what if the money is for Barry?
Maybe you should ask Ole Joe about his Brother's involvement with rebuilding Afghanistan?
President Obama did not cut loans for grad students. However, he did get the RATES cut on student loans. There is something very wrong with your story, kid. This is a hoax.
Dirty money for dirty politics. Welcome to democracy!
Dirty money is right. Enough for Bishop Romney & family to buy into Hart Incivic, the voting machines that does the counting. Google it. No wonder Bishop romney has been a real jerk - he thinks he has a guaranteed win. That's the only way a repub/tparty can get elected - cheating. Wouldn't it be fun to have these romney supporters standing in line with their "I voted for romney because I didn't know better" signs. Especially the women romney supporters, legs cramped from holding the aspirin between their knees, as one repub/tparty suggested.
OBAMA-BIDEN and a Strong Democratic Congress for a return to before bush/cheney.
It's all good. He can wire the SuperPAC ALL his money...Obama won't win this election!
All the Money and Lies in the World isn't going to help Sketchy Romney and Shady Ryan win this election!
@shanaldo, Nice way to think, but to be real about it, Mitt&lying Ryan can only win if they buy the eletion. While that may be your thinking also, it does not matter as Mitt just got his A** handed to him yet again..... What I do not understand is how you can have any trust for Mitt & Lying Ryan they have openly lied to everyone about their plan while telling lies may be the way for them as peolpe like you like it.....
I have no clue how to trust a back bitting liar, common sense would tell you to watch your back, fact check or research some information on your own or is it only because he looks like you?
Apparently those of you who bow to the Kenyan...god king: neglect the fact that USA's Univesities are the sight of those who intentionally violate USA's laws: so they can live off of me, and other workers from womb to tomb by being baby machines...illegals illegitimates whom have been given free reign to walk into the USA for auto-welfare citizenship from womb to tomb..or we wouldn't have I(ex) like Corpus Christi which is the epitomy of what it signifies...because the Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans predomoninantly 2/3's USA pop alone is from there heathen breed via sperm donor exponential from womb to tomb...on my back and others who work---all welcomed continued to break our laws then be REWARDED: we feed them clothe them every breath they take as PUBLIC CHATTEL on our backs...
What other nation REWARDs their Criminal Illegal ALien Invaders:= DREAM ACT..
Can you pay for them and theirs: I cannot..
Re-elect the Kenyan...so we can become Latin Amerca, Asia and the Middle East aka nothing but dumping ground for terrorists, heathen breeders, overpopulation and degradtion while we cut our own throats
The Future is NOW...
Stop: once and for all, lay off the booze. Mommy said you drank up all our money and we'll be on the street.
Good thing Mittens and Lyin Ryan won't accept any "sleeze-ball" money from conservative whores!
great defense... do the same thing because "they did it first". Wheres the sandbox?
Yet the Obama campaign just had to borrow $15M from BOA. Odd.
Source please? Oh, it's just ANOTHER RW NAZITYPE lie?
Thanks for playing. NEXT
Obama Borrows $15M
The vine isn't letting me post links:
Obama Borrows $15M
freebeacon.com/obama-campaign-borrows-15m-from-bank-of-america/
spend baby spend,
borrow money.....
spend baby spend,
borrow more money....
spend baby spend,
borrow yet even more money.....
Its his mantra and the only thing he has done for 4 years. end result? the dollar falls, gas and everything else you buy WITH YOUR OWN MONEY goes up.
and like the BOA loan just who do you think will have to pay that money back?
Simple internet search found the loan details.... Barry needs your money to WASTE
After Obama wins. you will hear that the early voting in Ohio and Iowa pushed the President to big wins in those states and that the polls never properly reflected those numbers...
And Nevada is a lock...Mitt can't beat the demographics...
wrong. every single independent that i have talked to wont vote for him, most did last time, and every single dem i have talked to have decided not to vote, or jump ship. course what do i know, i just live here. and admittedly its a small "survey" of perhaps 50-100 people, but it does cover many different county's, and seams to be a trend. oh and that includes ALL members of the current sitting congress being toast regardless of party.
Republicans love to bash all Obama donors, but don't comment about Adelson etc 40million but he can't afford to pay a little more in tax's?
Romneys donors know they will make their "investments" back ten fold if Romnesia was to win.
President Obama will win, and I can't wait to hear all the whining and crying...
Romney on the floor in a fetal position, clutching a picture of the WH, it was my turn, it was my turn, they promised me. Queen Ann comes in the room, why Mittens you have peed yourself pumpkin!
O&JOE
Hmmmbird--nope, Pubs don't love to BASH Obama donors, but they DO get a kick out of the fact that Obama CLAIMED last time around (08) that most of HIS donors were 'moms and pops' who sent him $5.
BOTH parties pander to their wealthy donors.
Mo: Up to a point. Adelson has contributed almost $100Million, most hidden. He's paying Bishop Romney to go to war with Iran, using Israel security as an excuse. Adelson and Netanyahu will reap hundreds of millions getting into the Middle East oil fields, as will Bishop Romney and his church. Adelson is counting on a 200% return on investment. Sorry that you're a repub/tparty, you seem too nice. If you have children, set them up well so they won't be joining the military. Never thought I'd be saying that, but that's what Bishop Romney has up his sleeve - war. Why should he care. Ever see a body bag coming off the plane? Think about it.
Delusional thinking. Prove Romney is being paid to go to war. Why would he, a family man would want to go to war? So illogical.
the comment box should be at the beginning of the topic ,,,
anyway my thought on the subject is YOU ARE WASTING YOUR MONEY DUMBASSES !!! ROMNEY RYAN 2012 HA HA
Ur certainly right 2 laugh about the Romney/Ryan Ticket!
Go Obama Go- Let's get ur done and go Forward!
Really... a rich lawyer who opposes tort reform? 6 donors account for 19 of 52 million raised? And yet people here act as if the Dems are above reproach. Get your head out... both parties are corrupt. Heres a little california irony for the Dems on this site: Prop 32 foes say they need union dues to support political candidates. Prop 30 sends tax dollars DIRECTLY to schools. So here's the irony- the governor and a state assemblyman are on a TV ad promoting 32 and say (direct quote) "keep Sacramento politicians' hands off of education money" Mind you, these are the SAME politicians that the unions are supporting, are they not?
Only Absolute and total idiots believe that the state wont find a way to get at that money. But really, having the governor decry the fate of money from "politicians in Sac"???? Go live with your own hypocrisy.
People should be ashamed to call themselves Democrats or Republicans.
Good point!
And... Dems always portray themselves as the protector of children and education, yet in California (totally in Democratic control) the state is 48th out of 50 in per pupil spending. Anyone care to answer that one...? Neither party has much to offer, but lets at least be real about facts instead of one-sided accusations that ignore any responsibility of their own party. Better yet, lets consider a moderate party that actually realizes that you cant have everything your way... a move to the middle will work most of the time, but big donors on both sides corrupt the process.
Yep. In 1976 the anti-tax right wing managed to pass something called Prop. 13, which ended local funding and local control of our schools. They turned it over to state government, who can't afford it, so it's been going downhill ever since, courtesy of the right wing.
ask chicago
underemployed--re CA school funding?
a couple of years ago, CA was opening a new SCHOOL every day, to accomodate all the new students.
At the same time, Americans moving AWAY from CA, for the first time in decades, outnumbered the number of Americans moving INTO CA, so the obvious conclusions to draw from those two situations are:
A.)Either most of the new entrants into CA's school systems (which required the building of so many schools) are POOR, and have WAY too many babies, and do not pay much in property tax to fund the schools,
B) Are ILLEGAL, or at least the children of illegals, who ALSO have way to many babies and do not pay much in property tax to fund the schools, or,
C) A combination of the two.
The reason why the STATE had to take over funding of CA schools was because the local districts were BANKRUPT.
i read a report the campaign borrowed money from bank of america and now this guy wires more what a waste of money it should be wired to the families that died at Benghazi instead
borrow and spend even more, its obamas mantra. so i ask you people just what do you believe he is buying?
Dear Tramp. If it's the Obama mantra, then you must also say it was the Bush mantra, the Reagan mantra, and for a couple of decades the Republican mantra. Two things are obvious: You are uneducated and need to go back to grammar school and are so biased that you are unable to think objectively. I have no idea why there are so many idiots in Iowa.
You know why walmart is donating, cuz thats gonna be the only jobs left if obama gets elected again. I'm sure walmart is exempt from obamacare and plans to keep it that way!! Everything obama does is for payoffs!! When are you obama supporters gonna see what this clown is all about!!! When he totally destoys our country!!!!!
It's a conspiracy I tell ya!!! A main stream media conspiracy!!! They're reporting FACTS as FACTS without regard for the conservatives. They are THROWING THE ELECTION!!! I'm going back to Fox and Rush and Anne...where I can get the REAL LIES!!!
Really dad, are we not 16 trillion dollars in debt?, oh 23 million americans have not lost their jobs, and I certainly did not pay $4.00 for a gallon of gas lies all lies thank goodness we have all you lovely liberal dads to tell us what the truth is! (sarcasm dude)
It's $11Trillion, we've paid off quite a bit when you were chomping at the bit. You wouldn't hear that on Fox.
FUC— this guy! This is exactly why our country has been ruined! Absolutely no money should be allowed to be given to any politician. PERIOD. No money , no favors!
This just proves there is a sucker born every minute.
If Obama has done such a terrible job with the economy over the last 4 years, where the heck are all this rich guys getting the millions of dollars being thrown into PAC's? On both sides?
he's been helping them get their millions by bailing them out.
@farideh kashanian, That is just sad, I guess you do not research anything before you write/speak what you have been told... It was released last week, you see the only one in denial here is you. Mitt has not disclosed where his donation come from, so you just may want to look it up for yourself........ Good luck with that.