Ever wondered how Obama financed his campaign and his administration allies? In a new book featured this Sunday on 60 Minutes titled Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer explains how Washington politicians use a set of mafia-style legislative tactics to extort people and industries into donating to them out of fear of political and legal reprisals. Schweizer interviewed former Chairman of Apache Corporation Ray Plank. Plank said campaign cash and lobbying contracts now function as “protection money” to keep lawmakers and regulators from going after you. “It’s what you expect from the mafia,” said Plank. “They basically come to you and say, ‘We are going to . . . You better play ball.’ We saw a great deal of it. It’s an insidious blight.” There are left-wing progressives on Wall Street and in the high-tech world who bankrolled President Obama’s campaign because they love his radical agenda. But many gave because they knew they have to; if they hadnt, Obama would have come after them. breitbart/Big-Government/2013/10/21/Extortion
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:54:57 +0000
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