If you’re a sharp-eyed reader of monoblogue, you’ve noticed there’s fewer and different links on the left-hand side. (If not – hey, I changed the links you’d see if you looked left and scrolled down!)
Part of this was to reflect the results of Delaware’s primary last Tuesday, but the other reason was to point out some of the candidates which are backed by a number of political action committees I’ve drawn attention to. We all know this has become an issue here because of the bundling of contributions from backers of the Club For Growth to Andy Harris’s Congressional campaign, but the Club For Growth is supporting a number of other hopefuls who support their economic philosophy. Similarly, the other committees I focus on have their slate as well.
Originally, I had planned on actually linking to each candidate website but after seeing the number of candidates some of these groups have thrown their support behind I quickly realized that I’d have a helluva lot of links to come up with. So as a compromise measure I link to each organization’s page. Because of this, you’ll notice that Mitt Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC is also pledging themselves behind Andy Harris. (I’m thinking of placing the case for Harris on Huckabee’s site, meanwhile I don’t know who’s suggesting candidates to Fred Thompson’s newly-formed committee. Once he has some I’ll add the link.)
Soon you’ll figure out that there’s a lot of committees out there placing their donated cash behind candidates of all stripes. Certainly there’s others on the Left who I don’t agree with doing their part to elect more Democrats to grow government. (Frank Kratovil had 112 such donations from political and campaign committees as of June 30 while Andy Harris had 2,656 donations. Due to the technicality of FEC rules each Club For Growth bundled individual contribution counts in this category. If unions were forced to itemize each of their individual local dues they used for political contributions Kratovil would have a similar number.)
And when the next quarterly numbers come out you’ll see how much I gave Andy, too. Maybe I need to start the monoblogue PAC and get in on all this action. *ahem*
The next goal of link maintenance will be to segregate some of my right-hand bloglist out. I’m definitely thinking of adding more Delaware links, so suggestions for good local websites are welcome. In the meantime, go ahead and boggle your mind thinking about all the money in politics.
