Baker (Charter School Profiteer) Mitchell's Pat McCrory Campaign Contribution

Charter school legislation awaiting Pat McCrory's consent or veto, 

appears to allow Baker Mitchell, who contributed $8,000 to Pat McCrory,

to keep Mitchell's taxpayer funded personal profit secret.

$4000
03/24/2012
$4000
05/24/2012
MITCHELL, BAKER
PRESIDENT
ROGER BACON ACADEMY
1112 SHELTER COVE PL
WILMINGTON NC, 28405

http://influenceexplorer.com/politicians

Governor McCrory received a 09/04/2012 contribution 

from Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy' Joseph Maimone

who was appointed to the Charter Advisory Board

by Governor Pat McCrory

"...What is important now is whether McCrory signs the bill, Hartzman said...

The governor originally said he would veto a charter school bill 

that did not require disclosure of how public money is spent.

N&R Editorial Board

Two of N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger’s appointments to the state Charter School Advisory Board resigned this week after several people complained that they had conflicts of interest.

Governor McCrory also received $4000 

from Charter and Private School board member/operator Robert Luddy on 04/25/2012

before Luddy contributed $50,000 to a PAC

supporting Phil Berger Jr.

The latest complaint, filed Monday by local blogger and activist George Hartzman, said Berger had a conflict of interest when he pushed for Senate Bill 793, which shields salaries of some charter school employees from public inspection.

...Paul Norcross and Baker Mitchell..., who both have ties to North Carolina charter schools, sent Berger letters of resignation on Wednesday.

Mitchell, who heads charter schools in Leland, did not respond to requests for comment.

Governor McCrory received a 03/16/2012 contribution 

from Chair of the Board of Pinnacle Classical Academy's Debbie Clary

who serves on the NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools

with Baker Mitchell and Phil Berger Jr.

SB 793, which now awaits Gov. Pat McCrory’s signature, would shield from the public the employee salaries of for-profit companies that manage charter schools.

Govenor McCrory also received a 10/31/2012 contribution 

from Greensboro Academy Vice President Alan Hawkes,

who Phil Berger Sr. appointed to the Charter Advisory Board

Hartzman said that Phil Berger’s son, Phil Berger Jr., would stand to benefit from that loophole as a member of the board of directors for Providence Charter High, a Rockingham County charter school.

Governor McCrory received a 03/13/2012 contribution 

from Providence Charter High School's Phil Berger Jr.,

a taxpayer funded District Attorney

who serves on the NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools

with Baker Mitchell.

...If McCrory fails to veto the bill, Phil Berger Jr. “would be able to take an income from a charter school without anyone knowing about it,” Hartzman said.

http://www.news-record.com/blogs/the_chalkboard/article_fb328564-18e9-11e4-8915-001a4bcf6878.html
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Someone should remind the state legislature that charter schools are public schools.

How about it, Governor?

Republican legislators need a reminder after sending a charter school bill to Gov. Pat McCrory this week. It excuses for-profit companies that operate charter schools from disclosing employees’ salaries...

$500 for MCCRORY ON 09/07/2011

FROM MILLS, TAMMIE

UNITED ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

MONROE NC

Charter schools are public. They receive tax dollars. So, they should be held to the same open records standards and nondiscrimination requirements as traditional public schools.

Charter school management apparently has become a lucrative business...

...When it comes to how much for-private charter school companies pay their executives, there is currently no right to know.

The legislature ...appointed charter school advocates and operators to the state’s charter school advisory board. When vested interests are put in charge, the need for transparency is obvious.

...The governor originally said he would veto a charter school bill that did not require disclosure of how public money is spent. His office now says it is studying the legal implications of the bill’s language. McCrory should reject efforts to treat charter schools as if they are private, for-profit companies that can use tax dollars any way they like...

All public schools must be fair and accountable to everyone.

http://www.news-record.com/opinion/n_and_r_editorials/article_e9293006-18f4-11e4-9804-0017a43b2370.html
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Previously;

News Observer on McCrory and Charter School Bill 793 and Phil Berger


http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/news-observer-on-mccrory-and-charter.html

Phil Berger Conflict of Interest Recusal Call; NC Bill SB 793 on Charter School Transparency 

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/conflict-of-interest-for-phil-berger-nc.html

Phil Berger Jr's Norcross' Phoenix Academy "management contract" request and conflict of interest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/phil-berger-jrs-norcross-phoenix.html

Paul Norcross' no-bid contract for himself paid for with taxpayer money?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/paul-norcross-no-bid-contract-for.html

Paul Norcross, apparently appointed to board by Phil Berger, denied charter school due to "conflict of interest"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/paul-norcross-apparently-appointed-to.html

N.C Alliance for Public Charter Schools Board of Directors; Phil Berger Jr. and Paul Norcross

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/06/nc-alliance-for-public-charter-schools.html

The charter school issue not reported before the Walker Berger election

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-charter-school-issue-not-reported.html

Phil Berger Jr. fellow board member under investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Education

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/phil-berger-jr-fellow-board-member.html

From the meeting minutes when Phil Berger Jr. got his charter school approved

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/07/from-meeting-minutes-when-phil-berger.html

Is this what Phil Berger Jr's big financial backers want with Jr in DC?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/06/is-this-what-phil-berger-jrs-big.html 

Excerpts from my 3/26/2014 Yes Weekly Article; "On Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina" ACA, Obamacare, CBO, SGR and the Doc Fix

The problem with Medicaid expansion isn't that the services shouldn't be offered. The problem is recent health care reform didn’t fix the cost issues associated with our nation’s health care system.

Considering how many times the law has been “adjusted” since the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) last update, I have found assessing the financial implications of expanding Medicaid in North Carolina difficult.

On March 21, the Obama administration’s Whitehouse.gov stated “the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reduces the deficit, saving over $200 billion over 10 years”.

...But the latest ACA deficit reducing accounting appears to no longer be operable.

The last CBO projections didn’t include changes and delays affecting total cost results instituted after December 2013, including delayed penalty revenues and patients retaining the ability to keep and/or purchase low cost catastrophic policies that were supposed to have been replaced with higher priced alternatives in 2014.

More enrollees signed up for 100 percent subsidized care than anticipated. The Obama administration’s math needed about 40 percent of 18 to 34 year-olds to offset the higher costs of older enrollees. The latest youth number is about 27 percent, and a good chunk might not necessarily be healthy.

According to the American Medical Association, Congress and both Bush and Obama didn’t enforce the Sustainable Healthcare physician Growth Rate (SGR) 16 times at a cost to taxpayers of $154 billion with what’s call the SGR “doc fix”.

The University of Chicago’s Vineet Arora wrote: “Because the ‘doc fix’ costs so much, it was removed from the calculation of the cost of the health reform bill to make it more likely that the [ACA] will pass.”

Former Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget James Capretta wrote “While pushing ACA through Congress, President Obama ... proposed to add [the SGR “doc fix”] to the national debt, but he did not want those costs to count against [the] ACA, because they would explode the myth of deficit reduction. So his solution was to pass the “doc fix” in separate legislation. ...the President’s total bill for health care, with an unfinanced [SGR] “doc fix” shows deficits, not deficit reduction.”

In my view, “Obamacare” is a package of legislation, not just the ACA as has been widely publicized.

A March 2010 letter from the CBO to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Obamacare legislation including the ACA disclosed “enacting all three pieces of legislation would add $59 billion to budget deficits over the 2010–2019 period”. Mr. Ryan hasn’t said much about the issue since. According to opensecrets.org, Ryan’s career to date health industry contributions total $1,636,911.

The health and insurance industry’s large political campaign contribution track record correlates to taxpayer funded subsidized healthcare having the highest price inflation of any sector of the economy since 2000.

December 9, 2010’s SGR “doc-Fix” altered ACA subsidy formulas. If the SGR cut scheduled for April 1, 2014 doesn’t occur, at least $140.4 billion of Obamacare’s expected 10-year deficit reduction math looks to be in jeopardy, as Medicaid payment levels are tied to some Medicare reimbursements and correlated to private health care premiums.

My understanding of CBO rules, is if the SGR repeal becomes permanent, the $140.4 billion then counts as deficit increasing, as opposed to its current state of legal limbo, under which the CBO doesn’t have to score the SGR as a deficit expense. The CBO did not reply to inquiries for comment.

I believe the ACA was passed without fixing what’s broken, but preserved the worst of it, making our fiscal situation even more precarious without public disclosure.

It feels like America’s health and insurance industries don’t maintain high profit margins by providing superior care and/or medicine, but by financing the political process with wealth transferred from patients and taxpayers.

In my view, many Democrats are just as guilty as some Republicans for allowing our health care system to become what appears to be a skimming operation. Some campaign contributions look like legal forms of extortion on the part of elected officials via the SGR “doc fix” among other extensions, as some healthcare and insurance industry donors appear to legally bribe legislators in exchange for artificially inflated taxpayer-funded profit.

http://npaper-wehaa.com/yes-weekly#2014/03/26/?article=2186021
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My last 4 Yes Weekly Articles

ON CRONY CAPITALISM IN GREENSBORO

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-17291-on-crony-capitalism-in-greensboro.html

PAY TO GET PAID AND THE CITY OF GREENSBORO

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-17258-pay-to-get-paid-and-the-city-of-greensboro.html

ON THE STEVEN TANGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (GPAC)

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-17227-on-the-steven-tanger-performing-arts-center-(gpac).html

ON GREENSBORO’S CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-17199-on-greensbororss-civil-rights-museum.html

Mayoral Proposal; I would like Greensboro's City Council to approve the following language to prohibit unethical behavior

"Current Greensboro City Council Members and Candidates for local elected office are prohibited from accepting campaign contributions from board members of organizations, developers, contractors or their lawyers or agents who have or may receive taxpayer funded contracts or monies, for 12 months before and after doing business with Greensboro’s government."

7 16 13 on Ruco, Rental Inspections, TREBIC and Regulatory Capture

On TREBIC and Illegal Lobbying

http://edcone.typepad.com/files/trebic-2010-990.pdf

Question 3 on page 3 isn't true.

GN&R Amanda Lehmert "Mayor takes on fire department challenge" after Robbie Perkins shoveled their candidate endorsing association taxpayer money

"Mayor Robbie Perkins...recently took the Greensboro Fire Department up on an offer to go through a grueling morning workout with their recruit class.

It started with 65 push ups and ended an hour later, with Perkins reaching for pain relievers.

Perkins says there is video. You’ll be the first to hear when Scoop tracks in down."

Amanda
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On March 5, 2013, Abuzuaiter, Hoffmann, Johnson, Kee, Perkins and Vaughan voted to spend Greensboro's taxpayer money to fund the Fire Union's desire to have thier union dues deducted from city paychecks, and Robbie got positive press from Greensboro's paper of record, while failing to mention Robbie threw them some legislated love the month before, or that the Fire Association/Union/PAC makes political endorsements and works voting centers with volunteers on election day.

Who did the Fire Association endorse and work at the polls for in the last election?

On Paul Ryan's VP Speech

"...every generation of Americans leaves their children better off.

That's the American legacy.

Sadly, for the first time in our history,
we are on a path which will undo that legacy.

...It is our duty to save the American Dream for our children, and theirs.

...we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair.

This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years.

Unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years,
the longest run since the Great Depression.

Families are hurting.

We have the largest deficits and the biggest federal government since WWII.

Nearly 1 out of 6 Americans are in poverty--the worst rate in a generation.

Moms and dads are struggling to make ends meet.

Household incomes have dropped by more than $4,000 over the past four years.

[The leaders of both political parties have] refused to make difficult decisions
because they are more worried about their next election
than they are about the next generation.

We might have been able to get away with that before, but not now.

We’re in a different, and dangerous, moment.

We're running out of time...

Politicians from both parties have made empty promises
which will soon become broken promises--with painful consequences
--if we fail to act now.

...what I have heard lately troubles me the most.

...lowered expectations, uncertain futures.

...High unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is not a new normal.

It's the result of misguided policies.

Like Congress stealing the Social Security Trust fund 

since 1983?

...America is on the wrong track...

...America is more than just a place...it's an idea.

It's the only country founded on an idea.

...We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

Do we have equal opportunity, 

if a few can purchase Congress and the President

with unlimited amounts of campaign contribution cash?

This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination
and government by consent of the governed.

This idea is under assault.

...We are on an unsustainable path that is robbing America
of our freedom and security.

It doesn't have to be this way.

...We can turn this thing around. But, it will take leadership.

And the courage to tell you the truth.

Thank you.

James T. Ahler - Registered Lobbyist, Matthew Eisley - Registered Lobbyist and B. Davis Horne, Jr. - Registered Lobbyist

Mr. James T. Ahler, CAE
NCACPA, Raleigh, NC

Jim Ahler, CAE,
is the CEO of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.

Prior to joining NCACPA in 1988,
Jim served as executive director of the State Board of Accountancy
in Louisville, Kentucky.

While in Kentucky, Jim was active on various national committees
of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA).

He was also a consultant to NASBA
for strategic planning and committee management.

Jim is an active member of the Association Executives of North Carolina (AENC).

He is also active in the CPA Society Executives Association (CPA/SEA),
a national association of state CPA association executives.

Lobbyist Information...
Name: James T. Ahler 
Raleigh, NC 27623
Registered with these Principals...
Filings Term Status Firm Principal
2012 Active  North Carolina Association of CPAs 
2011 Active  North Carolina Association of CPAs
2010 Active North Carolina Association of CPAs
2009 Active North Carolina Association of CPAs
2008 Active  North Carolina Association of CPAs
2007 Active  North Carolina Association of CPAs
2005-2006 Active NC Assocaition of CPAs
2003-2004 Active NC Assocaition of CPAs
2001-2002 Active NC Assocaition of CPAs
1997-1998 Active NC Assocaition of CPAs ACPA, NC
1995-1996 Active NC Assocaition of CPAs
1993-1994 Active NC Assocaition of CPAs

http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/Lobbyists/Lobbyist.aspx?PId=8143885
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Lobbyist Information...
Name: Matthew Eisley 
Raleigh, NC 27601-2611
Registered with these Principals...

2012 Active Nationwide Insurance & Affiliates
2012 Active North Carolina Association of CPAs 
2012 Active North Carolina Economic Development Group
2012 Active North Carolina Medical Society
2012 Active Waste Management Carolinas
2011 Active FMR LLC (Fidelity Investments)
2011 Active North Carolina Association of CPAs
2011 Active North Carolina Economic Development Group
2011 Active North Carolina Medical Society
2011 Active North Carolina Travel and Tourism Coalition
2010 Active Abbott Laboratories
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Lobbyist Information...
Name: B. Davis Horne, Jr.
Raleigh, NC 27601-2611
Registered with these Principals...

2012 Active American International Group, Inc. 
2012 Active FMR LLC
2012 Active North Carolina Association of CPAs 
2012 Active North Carolina Economic Development Group
2012 Active North Carolina Financial Services Association 
2012 Active North Carolina Medical Society
2012 Active Waste Management Carolinas
2011 Active Abbott Laboratories
2011 Active American International Group, Inc. 
2011 Active Nationwide Insurance & Affiliates
2011 Active North Carolina Association of CPAs
2011 Active North Carolina Financial Services Association
2010 Active American International Group, Inc.

What is Crony Capitalism in Greensboro and Guilford County?

Bloomberg Editorial Board: "Disclosure Vote Leaves Trail of Broken ...Vows"

"Hypocrisy is a bipartisan affliction.

Bill Moyers on John Hammer, some other local media, and what Howard Coble and Virginia Foxx just voted to kill?

"What we have is much closer to plutocracy,
where the massive concentration of wealth at the top
protects and perpetuates itself by controlling the ends and means of politics.

...The airwaves belong to all of us, right?

...We heard the other day of a candidate for office in a Midwest state
who complained to the general manager of a TV station
that his campaign was not getting any news coverage.

“You want coverage?” the broadcaster replied.

“Buy some ads and then we’ll talk!”

...The media companies and their local stations
– including goliaths like CBS and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp
– stand to pull in as much as $3 billion this year from political ads.

...[From] a letter from the deans of twelve of our best journalism schools:

“Broadcast news organizations depend on, and consistently call for,
robust open-record regimes for the institutions they cover;
it seems hypocritical for broadcasters
to oppose applying the same principles to themselves.”

Hypocritical, but consistent with a business that values the almighty dollar over public service.

The industry leaves nothing to chance.

Through its control of the House of Representatives,
it got a piece of legislation passed this past week
euphemistically titled the FCC Process Reform Act.

George Orwell must be spinning in his grave – this isn’t reform, it’s evisceration.

...There was a noble attempt by California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
to include in this bill an amendment that, like the FCC proposal,
called for stations to post on-line who’s putting up the big bucks for political ads.

Shocker — it was rejected.

Score another one for the plutocrats.

Bill Moyers

Bundling, Conduit and Conflict of Interest defined

Bundling -- The practice of pooling individual contributions from various people -- often those employed by the same business or in the same profession -- in order to maximize the political influence of the bundler. Typically, all of the checks collected in this way are sent or delivered to candidates on the same day.

 

Conduit -- A person, group, or organization that forwards others' contributions to candidates, a legal activity under federal law.

 

Conflict of Interest -- The situation that results when an umpire takes money from the players, when a judge takes money from defendants and prosecutors, and when government officials take campaign contributions from people whose economic interests are affected by government policy-making.

 

Coming to Terms:

A Money-in-Politics Glossary

If Greensboro News and Record’s Editorial Board not only ignored but erroneously refuted evidence of Pay to Play politics in 2007’s City Council election, how can they tout piousness in 2010?

Hypocrisy is the act of persistently pretending to hold beliefs,

opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards

that one does not actually hold.

 

Hypocrisy is thus a kind of lie.

 

Wikipedia

 

Editorial: Saving democracy

 

Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision changes some of the rules for financing political campaigns in North Carolina and across the country, and probably not for the better. But the state can and should respond in ways that keep wealthy special interests honest.

 

Bob Hall of Democracy North Carolina called the 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission a step toward turning "public elections into public auctions."

 

…It might if big corporations begin to spend millions on behalf of candidates or issues.

 

…North Carolina might not be able to keep a lid on the money, but if it requires complete transparency, citizens can see which candidates have been auctioned to special interests -- and vote for someone else.

 

Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board, January 23, 2010

Proposed North Carolina Political Ethics Rules

...Perdue proposed a one-year extension of the time that government regulators must wait before they go into lobbying or to work for the people they used to regulate.

She also wants governors to have the statutory authority to fire appointees to state boards who don't attend meetings, who have been indicted or who fail to cooperate with an investigation.

She wants the law to allow for the revocation of any state pension public officials may be owed if they are convicted of felonies related to their jobs.

She also wants more disclosure information for the 4,000 people serving on boards and commissions.

State Republicans are calling for adjustments to state-personnel laws that they say will expose patronage and misconduct. The changes would open more personnel records to public view.

The GOP also endorsed Perdue's ideas.

There are other ideas floating around, many proposed by a bipartisan coalition for cleaner government. Their proposals include a ban on campaign contributions from state contractors, better reporting of how campaign money is raised, including a listing of the people who bundle contributions for candidates, and a ban on the solicitation by office-holders of charitable contributions from lobbyists...

WINSTON JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF
April 10, 2010

Should those who receive campaign donations serve on panels determining what campaign contributions are ethical?

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change
and a greater evil than this;

The conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Frederic Bastiat

Ethics panel clears 7 on earmarks

The House ethics committee ruled Friday that seven lawmakers who steered hundreds of millions of dollars in largely no-bid contracts to clients of a lobbying firm had not violated any rules or laws by also collecting large campaign donations from those contractors.

Paul Kane and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post

Conflict of Interest Ethics Rule Proposals for Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners

Candidates and current Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners should be prohibited from entering into for-profit enterprises dependent upon public support.

Candidates and current Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners should be prohibited from making campaign contributions to entities who publicly endorse political candidates.

Candidates and current Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners should be prohibited from accepting campaign contributions from those with conflicts of interests, including leading members of organizations receiving taxpayer money, and/or developers, contractors or their lawyers or agents, for 12 months before and after doing business with Greensboro and Guilford County’s governments.

Suggestions or Objections?

Does “We the People” now include domestic subsidiaries of foreign based multinationals manipulating our political system as our “news” outlets quietly profit?

We the People  of the United States,

in Order to form a more perfect Union,

establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,

provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,

and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,

o ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I challenge Greensboro News and Record’s Editorial Board to release an unedited transcript of 2009’s District 3 joint candidate interview

Can business and/or political interests

negatively affect investigative journalism

by sheltering some from inhospitable exposure,

while simultaneously disparaging opponents?

 

Power in America…

is control of the means of communication

 

Theodore White

Political Journalist

 

Are the less informed easier to persuade

than the more?

 

The partisan

when engaged in a dispute

cares nothing about the rights of the question

but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions

 

Plato

Please consider a not so hypothetical scenario

An idealist candidate decides to run for county commissioner on a fiscally conservative platform.

 

His/Her opponent, hand picked by his politically powerful predecessor and others who have used legislation and taxpayer money to achieve personal profit, not only receives special interest bundled campaign contributions, but now benefits from hard to trace third and forth party attack ads and mailings disparaging opponents.

 

Meanwhile, the local mass media industry recognizes that about 75% of their election season ad revenues are received by those with financial interests with the government and who are dependent on the status quo, and reports the pros and cons proportionately to the best interests of the bottom line.

 

In the end, after the negatives of the incumbent are ignored as the positives of the challenger are downplayed by compromised editorial boards, the powers that be retain power and the apathetic taxpayers watch football as they betray their children’s inheritance by not knowing or not caring enough while their taxes rise and the financial stability of their community disintegrates.

 

Is this not where most of America lives today?

Where do you stand Dr. Guarino, Mr. Brown, Wilkins, Smith, Ware, Baron, Cone, Spag, Brod, Hoggard, Hieb, Bubba, Burgess, Holder, Shell, Mrs. Polinski, Bowers etc…, or have you chosen to ignore the unpalatable?

…there are now no checks on the ability of corporations or unions or other giant aggregations of power... to decide our elections.

 

None.

 

They can spend all the money they want.

 

And if they can spend all the money they want -- sooner, rather than later -- they will implant the legislators of their choice in every office…

 

And if Senators and Congressmen and Governors and Mayors and Councilmen and everyone in between are entirely beholden to the corporations for election and re-election to office, soon they will erase whatever checks there might still exist to just slow down the ability of corporations to decide... the laws.

      

It is almost literally true that any political science fiction nightmare you can now dream up -- no matter whether you are conservative or liberal -- it is now legal.

 

Because the people who can make it legal, can now be entirely bought and sold -- no actual citizens required in the process.

     

And the entirely bought and sold politicians, can change any laws.

 

And any legal defense you can structure now, can be undone by the politicians who will be bought and sold into office this November, or two years from now.

 

And any legal defense which honest politicians can somehow wedge up against them this November, or two years from now, can be undone by the next even larger set of politicians who will be bought and sold into office in 2014, or 2016, or 2018.

 

…Right now, you can prostitute all of the politicians some of the time, and prostitute some of the politicians all the time, but you cannot prostitute all the politicians all the time.

 

…this will change.