{"id":64810,"date":"2017-10-18T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64810"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:31:30","slug":"virtue-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64810","title":{"rendered":"Virtue Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Suppose you\u2019re a politician who accepts campaign donations.\u00a0 Turns out, one of your donors is a bad egg.\u00a0 What do you do with that money?<\/p>\n

If you keep it, you are guilty by association.\u00a0 If you give it back, the bad egg will donate it to your opponent to use against you.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Las Vegas shooting on October 1, State Rep. Erin Murphy, a fellow DFL candidate for governor, called on [Rep. Tim] Walz to return the $18,000<\/a> in campaign contributions he has received from the NRA over the course of his political career. Walz agreed, and plans to donate the funds to a veterans\u2019 organization.\u201d\u00a0 Nothing against veterans, but why them?\u00a0 Why not victims of the Las Vegas shooting<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Democrat National Committee received $300,000 from accused sex abuser Harvey Weinstein.\u00a0 It will forward $30,000 of that money<\/a> to Emily\u2019s List (supports candidates who favor abortion rights), Emerge America (trains Democrat women for office) and HigherHeights (supports Black women running for office).\u00a0 Basically, Democrats are forwarding the money to their own constituencies. Why them?\u00a0 Why not a group working with survivors of sexual assault?\u00a0 And why only tithe 10%, how is that enough to purge their guilt-by-association when others must return all the money?<\/p>\n

If the money is so tainted that you are stained the moment you touch it, then forwarding the money to a favored group doesn\u2019t cleanse you of the stain, it makes you a middleman helping spread the stain to others. \u00a0Either keep it or give it back, but don\u2019t try to convince me that money-laundering makes you righteous. \u00a0That\u2019s just insulting.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re OK with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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