October 9, 2018
More Bribery: Kamala Harris hands $400,000 to Heidi Heitkamp
By Monica Showalter
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...la_harris_hands_400000_to_heidi_heitkamp.html
Funny how politics works these days...
Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota went against her own voters' sentiment, which supported Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court by about 60%; voted against the man in a bid to sink his confirmation; and suddenly found herself with a flood of campaign cash, courtesy of Sen. Kamala Harris, who raised her a $400,000 payday.
Here's the news from NBC's Kasie Hunt, which was first spotted by Mike Allen at Axios:
Was that cash why she changed her vote from sympathetic to Kavanaugh to a "no"? One wonders if these were the arrangements made, because it sure was weird that she changed her vote, given that she was from a red state and likely to lose her seat, running as she was 9 points behind her Republican challenger, and would have politically benefited from casting a "yes." Did she know about the payday? Was it something she was offered? And did she need the payday that bad?
Oh, I heard her on 60 Minutes the other night, unpersuasively telling us she was voting her "conscience." The ace investigative reporters at that lefty show never thought to ask her about any of her political calculations – they just gave her a soapbox to justify herself and didn't quite notice that little $400,000 being slipped into her coffers.
It all has the look of disguised bribery, just as the crowdfunding efforts directed against Maine's Republican senator, Susan Collins, had the look of a bribe.
Here is what I wrote a few days ago about that:
First, dangling offers of money:
That cash, by the way, snowballed to $2.9 million at the latest reading, an intimidating prospect, indeed.
Money didn't work, and Collins called it what it was: bribery. The Wall Street Journal in its editorial above explained why that was accurate:
So now the bribes and payoffs go on, using the pretense of crowdfunding. I suppose the Democrats will attempt to justify it as free speech. What we are seeing here is quid pro quo, emoluments for services rendered, and this isn't different in kind from what Sen. Bob Menendez did with his doctor pal in Florida.
The problem is that there is little control over who is giving these vast sums of money, or if fat cats or foreigners are involved, which could mean campaign finance violations easily if the matter got looked at closely. There's also little notice of whether "incentives" were offered. Another thing that makes me suspicious is that Kamala Harris is not that popular: her Twitter feed, as I have pointed out repeatedly, has been loaded with fake followers in what was an obvious bid to puff herself up in influence she didn't have. Was she really capable of raising $400,000 as Democrats' Midas-like wonder woman? I think it's legitimate to ask.
Meanwhile, the message goes out: support leftist Democrat causes no matter what you think or your voters want, and you, too, can get cash from who knows where rolling in.
Any questions why Democrats are held in such disrepute?
Funny how politics works these days...
More Bribery: Kamala Harris hands $400,000 to Heidi Heitkamp
By Monica Showalter
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...la_harris_hands_400000_to_heidi_heitkamp.html
Funny how politics works these days...
Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota went against her own voters' sentiment, which supported Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court by about 60%; voted against the man in a bid to sink his confirmation; and suddenly found herself with a flood of campaign cash, courtesy of Sen. Kamala Harris, who raised her a $400,000 payday.
Here's the news from NBC's Kasie Hunt, which was first spotted by Mike Allen at Axios:
Was that cash why she changed her vote from sympathetic to Kavanaugh to a "no"? One wonders if these were the arrangements made, because it sure was weird that she changed her vote, given that she was from a red state and likely to lose her seat, running as she was 9 points behind her Republican challenger, and would have politically benefited from casting a "yes." Did she know about the payday? Was it something she was offered? And did she need the payday that bad?
Oh, I heard her on 60 Minutes the other night, unpersuasively telling us she was voting her "conscience." The ace investigative reporters at that lefty show never thought to ask her about any of her political calculations – they just gave her a soapbox to justify herself and didn't quite notice that little $400,000 being slipped into her coffers.
It all has the look of disguised bribery, just as the crowdfunding efforts directed against Maine's Republican senator, Susan Collins, had the look of a bribe.
Here is what I wrote a few days ago about that:
First, dangling offers of money:
That cash, by the way, snowballed to $2.9 million at the latest reading, an intimidating prospect, indeed.
Money didn't work, and Collins called it what it was: bribery. The Wall Street Journal in its editorial above explained why that was accurate:
So now the bribes and payoffs go on, using the pretense of crowdfunding. I suppose the Democrats will attempt to justify it as free speech. What we are seeing here is quid pro quo, emoluments for services rendered, and this isn't different in kind from what Sen. Bob Menendez did with his doctor pal in Florida.
The problem is that there is little control over who is giving these vast sums of money, or if fat cats or foreigners are involved, which could mean campaign finance violations easily if the matter got looked at closely. There's also little notice of whether "incentives" were offered. Another thing that makes me suspicious is that Kamala Harris is not that popular: her Twitter feed, as I have pointed out repeatedly, has been loaded with fake followers in what was an obvious bid to puff herself up in influence she didn't have. Was she really capable of raising $400,000 as Democrats' Midas-like wonder woman? I think it's legitimate to ask.
Meanwhile, the message goes out: support leftist Democrat causes no matter what you think or your voters want, and you, too, can get cash from who knows where rolling in.
Any questions why Democrats are held in such disrepute?
Funny how politics works these days...