With Republican leaders anxious to set an austere tone for their ascendance into the House majority this week, the lavish fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday night at a trendy Washington hotel to benefit a dozen GOP freshmen is not exactly the populist image leaders are anxious to project.
And here is the real problem:
House Speaker-elect John Boehner, whose name was featured on the invitation, is nonetheless skipping the event at the W Hotel, where lobbyists, political action committee managers and others paying the $2,500 ticket price will be treated to a performance by country music star LeAnn Rimes (a $50,000 package includes a block of eight tickets and a “VIP suite” at the W).
A $2500.00 ticket. To get in. Paid for by corporations. Through their lobbyists. So they can have access to our legislators.
And the Republicans are promising to change something in Washington?
I'll repeat: We need true campaign finance reform so it will be strictly illegal for corporations to give money of any sort, like this, above, or to campaigns or whatever, through their lobbyists to legislators of any stripe.
That and we need to make the campaigns 3 or 6 months long, by law, like the British did long ago.
We need to get the corporate money out of government, folks. We all know this. Let's do something about it.
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