Some More Good Election Tidbits...

Just a couple of brief notes I found amusing.

First, Lyndon Larouche is running for President again. No Surprise there, as he runs in virtually every Presidential election. However, THIS time, there's a difference - he's NOT the smallest candidate. Oddly enough, this time around, Larouche has almost 6 and a half times as much money to play with as Ralph Nader does, despite the fact that Nader has much better name / face recognition. In fact, only 3 candidates have more money than Larouche: Bush, Kerry, and Dennis Kucinich.

I thought that was interesting, so I looked up Larouche's top contributors, to see who's bankrolling him this time around. And what did I find? Our government, that's who. Well, some of it, anyway:

• The U.S. Postal Service
  
• The City of New York
  
• The City of Los Angeles
  
• The City of Philadelphia
  
• The State of New Jersey
  
• The Los Angeles Unified School District (?!)
  
• The U. S. Army
  

There were a few interesting companies, too, of course:

• Lockheed Martin
  
• General Electric
  
• Verizon Communications
  
• General Motors
  
• J. C. Penney
  

But to me, the real kicker was #9 on the list, the IRS.

But wait a second. Didn't Lyndon Larouche spend time in jail for tax evasion and fraud? Why yes; yes he did. It's even on his resume, although of course he calls it

a politically motivated fraud, from beginning to end.

and goes on to say that

LaRouche is the only presidential candidate to have been convicted in a Federal criminal case. As the measure of a man's virtue is often the numerousness and savagery of his enemies, the fraudulent character of that conviction is, in fact, the most powerful proof of his exceptional qualifications for election to be President.

Great stuff, there. The IRS gets him put in jail, and pays for him to run for President. Wonderful. Gotta love THIS election cycle, it's really entertaining.


In other news, I ran across a chart of the Top 100 political contributors of all time; the chart speaks for itself, but I find it interesting that out of all 100, only one company, Amway Corporation, is solidly Republican. And they're #82 on the list in $$ donated.