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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:36 PM
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Washington Post Uncovers Congressman Toomey's Hong Kong Boss
Former Enron Director Chan and Congressman Toomey Share Disastrous Economic Principles


""MEDIA, Pa. - On Friday, the Washington Post finally uncovered what Congressman Toomey was doing in Hong Kong while he claimed to be opening a small business with his brothers in Pennsylvania. The Toomey campaign admitted to the Washington Post that he was working for Chinese billionaire Ronnie Chan, an Enron director at the heart of one of the biggest corporate scandals in the 21st century.


“Congressman Toomey is finally willing to admit what he was doing in Hong Kong during a period when he claimed to be a small businessman,” said Sestak campaign spokesman Jonathon Dworkin. “However, his connection to the scandal-ridden Enron profiteer only raises more questions. It’s time for Congressman Toomey to stop hiding his Wall Street past and start leveling with Pennsylvanians about whose interests he’ll put first in Washington.”


Information found about the former Enron director shows Ronnie Chan scorns the values of Western democracy. According to Chan, “Popularism will lead to socialism…The democrats only promote the upside of universal suffrage, they don’t discuss the downside. All the countries with the highest debts are Western countries whose governments are elected by the people. Western democracy is a dead end.”

It’s not just that Congressman Toomey worked for controversial Ronnie Chan. They also share the same disastrous economic principles. If Toomey had his way, America would join China in limiting protections for consumers and workers. And no matter who wins, Pennsylvania loses.

Congressman Toomey Wants to Follow China’s Lead and Advocate Extreme Policies that Cost Pennsylvania Jobs

Congressman Toomey fought to help companies move overseas and avoid American laws."

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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:39 PM
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1. well, that was a gift to Sestak! n/t
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:41 PM
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2. Pat Toomey is the one getting the gifts from the newspapers in Pennsylvania.
Edited on Wed Sep-22-10 04:45 PM by blue neen
Many, many of the local papers are owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, Toomey's Club for Growth buddy. The Tribune Review slams Democrats every chance they can get...believe me. You don't honestly believe that Richard Mellon Scaife is for American's middle class, do you?

The Club for Growth is basically bankrolling Pat Toomey's campaign here in PA.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:46 PM
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3. Oooh. Dickie is definitely one slimy
creature, so I'm sure that he's getting a big leg up. But surely Sestak can help the voters know what a pig at the trough Toomey is.
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:48 PM
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4. He's trying, but Club for Growth is running ads almost non-stop.
It's actually nauseating.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:49 PM
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5. Democracy is only a 'dead end'
Edited on Wed Sep-22-10 04:51 PM by RandomThoughts
If profits and worker production are most important, he is talking about race to the bottom.

If democracies require equal sets of protection for markets based on values like worker rights, then race to the bottom states can produce all they want without being able to sell it.

Then not only will we not take advantage of how they treat their workers, we wont have to live like their workers to match their production costs.

China is not as stable as they presume. There stability is because some people in the west like the ideas of no democracy and invest in them for the advantage of low labor cost low labor costs can create.


And race to the bottom is why all the union busting is happening. There are some that like the totalitarian model. Like the Saudi monarch, the Bush's, The guy in that article, and a few others.

Oligarchy is easier with more media and election control. Voting machines? Media consolidations? See what the goal some have is.
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 04:58 PM
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6. K & R to the fucking MOON!
Now let's get the word out on this smarmy prick.
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 06:12 PM
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7. Thank you.
Joe Sestak would be a great Senator for Pennsylvania and for the country. Pat Toomey would be an absolute disaster, worse than Rick Santorum!

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