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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:54 PM Oct 2012

GOP senate candidate in Boston is bankrolling black voter group to support him and paying them $8/HR

Source: Daily News

The Republican Party in Massachusetts has found a way to get black voters to campaign for Sen. Scott Brown — pay them $8 an hour.

The state GOP’s MassVictory program is funding a group called “Obama Supporters for Brown” to campaign for Brown in an inner city Boston neighborhood that strongly backs his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren.

And that report comes courtesy of the conservative Boston Herald, not the liberal Boston Globe.

Benjamin Thompson, a black former city elections commissioner, told The Herald he pays about 20 campaign workers a per diem that “works out to” about $8 an hour.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/boston-gop-bankrolling-obama-supporters-brown-article-1.1185039?localLinksEnabled=false&google_editors_picks=true



This reminds me of the GOP funded Anti-Harry Reid Latino group that materialized during the 2010 elections, which urged Latinos not to vote in order to send a message to Democrats.
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GOP senate candidate in Boston is bankrolling black voter group to support him and paying them $8/HR (Original Post) TomCADem Oct 2012 OP
Hopefully no one is swayed by this. I understand Cha Oct 2012 #1
Despicable but not surprising. beac Oct 2012 #2
NC has a lot of old school political shenanigans and they pay for votes here SaveAmerica Oct 2012 #3

Cha

(297,705 posts)
1. Hopefully no one is swayed by this. I understand
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:58 PM
Oct 2012

there are those who need work and Scott Brown's Racist Native American propaganda didn't work so he's come up with this.

THanks Tom

beac

(9,992 posts)
2. Despicable but not surprising.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:59 PM
Oct 2012

Am I wrong for hoping those workers are taking Brown's money and secretly stumping for Warren?

SaveAmerica

(5,342 posts)
3. NC has a lot of old school political shenanigans and they pay for votes here
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 09:05 PM
Oct 2012

Sometimes, that is, and of course they are focusing on certain groups. I've heard those certain groups laughingly say they take the pay and whatever other goodies they're given and still vote the way they want and work behind the scenes to get the candidate they want to get into office.

A fool and his money are soon parted....

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