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Bretttido Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:03 PM
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Notice how the MSM insists on tacking on Millionaire to Ned Lamont's name?
Are the rest of the Senators and Congressmen poor? I thought the majority of them were incredibly wealthy. I never heard Millionaire tacked on to George Bush, Tom Delay, or the "Duke". Am I missing something here?
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:04 PM
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1. Joementum is actually not that wealthy
so the MSM likes to play that up for contrast.

Then again, now that the RNC's behind Joementum, what does it matter if he's rich or not? :puke:
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:07 PM
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8. A "Millioniare" vs. a man of the people. How can voters resist Joe now?
:puke:
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:39 PM
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20. Dick Nixon wasn't rich either...
you don't need to be rich to be evil.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:04 PM
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2. only a millionaire?
Jeez.. that's chump change for a Senator..
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:05 PM
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3. Good for Ned
Yeah, george bush is just a poor common man of the people who spends his vacation time cleaning up that same brush pile over and over and over again. It is incredibly easy and incredibly pathetic how easy it is to trick fuck the ignorant conservative masses.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:05 PM
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4. The dems should tack that name on to all the repugs that are
millionaires, every time they mention their names....
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:06 PM
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5. That's anti-war millionaire to you.
Mustn't forget the "anti-war" part. That's the whole reason he was nominated, remember?
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:06 PM
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6. In 2002 40% were millionaires
Edited on Fri Aug-11-06 03:07 PM by Wickerman
you can only bet that number has jumped since then. Not a very honest way to report the news.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senators.finances/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate showed once more why it's sometimes called the millionaires' club.

Financial disclosure forms released Friday by the nation's 100 senators show there are at least 40 millionaires among them -- 22 Republicans and 18 Democrats. All but six of them are men.


edit: typeo
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:11 PM
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12. From this article...looks like Joe might be a millionaire too.
"Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut had an estimated net worth of $482,000 to $1.8 million"
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:07 PM
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7. Did they mention Joe outspent Ned during the primary? n/t
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:09 PM
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10. He sure did. 2/1. 8 million, actually. Still got his ass booted out.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:08 PM
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9. I don't care if he's a SELF-MADE millionaire ... unlike Chimperor
It was the same strategy they tried to use on John Edwards, who similarly worked his way up from nothing. I don't resent the money -- I resent the way SOME PEOPLE got it simply because of their genes and never had to work for it!
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:09 PM
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11. they did it to John Edwards too
the truth is the majority of Senators are millionaires or pretty damn close to it.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:18 PM
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13. Yet Dick Billionaire DeVos gets a pass....
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:18 PM
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14. If candidates are beholden to their contributors,who's Lamont beholden to?
Himself.

Gee, that's terrible...

:eyes:
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:35 PM
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18. ok, but I cringed when the freeps applied that logic to dumbya
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:37 PM
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19. Why?
...and I don't remember Bush funding most of his campaign with his own money...

It's not necesssarily a purely positive thing to have candidates funding their own campaigns, but it does limit exposure to questions about to whom they're beholden.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:21 PM
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15. Here in Mich. they're not saying "millionaire
Dick DeVos' either. Amway heir running for Gov.
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Not a moonbat Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:28 PM
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17. We saw it in Georgia
Ralph Reed's commercials during the campaign always tagged his primary opponent as "Millionaire Casey Cagle." Which is true, in a sense, notwithstanding the fact that Cagle was worth $2 million and Reed is worth $4 million. It's disturbing to see the media picking up on that though.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 04:13 PM
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21. Hi Not a moonbat!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 04:25 PM
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22. Hi!
Welcome to DU! :hi:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:27 PM
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16. Or Millionaire cable company owner...
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