Liberty-denier Paul Hodes is playing his populist violin in today’s UL about campaign finance. But he’s being a hypocrat. Mr. Hodes is up to his eyeballs in money from lawyers, big banks, and Unions. He’s also big on cash from congressional PAC’s all of whom get their dollars from industry, finance, Unions, and special interests. (see list of links below) Yet he still feels comfortable declaring that the recent supreme court decision will corrupt politics with money.
He’s just upset because now he might actually have some competition.
Without a corporate media monopoly pushing his left wing agenda unopposed in the last few weeks of any campaign, Hodes would actually have to defend his voting record right up to election day. That’s the record of Paul Hodes voting to give trillions to Unions, big banks, and left wing special interests who reward him with large campaign contributions. A record of sacrificing New Hampshire’s state sovereignty on the alter of the left wing agenda. A record that will cost the state millions if not billions in upcoming years if left unchecked. That would also be the record that contradicts his claims of being a cost conscious, fighter of corruption. None of it is true, never has been, never will, and his voting record proves it.
Hodes is another go along-get along government first, deficient growing, tax and spender who is beholden to the DC system, and more than willing to give up his home state to get better invites to Georgetown mixers. That’s government before the people at the expense of the people, courtesy of go-along get-along Hodes.
But this adds a new wrinkle. Mr. Hodes has now demonstrated himself to be against political speech he’s not paying for, which makes for a great talking point.
So representative Hodes, what political speech exactly would you have the government prohibit? That is what you are suggesting here. That you are willing to alter the constitution to prohibit speech you object to. Is that something you’d like to run on?
And also please explain to me how your constitutional morals—I ask because you’ve not previously demonstrated any concern for other parts of the constitution you find inconvenient—will relate to money as speech in regard to the well connected, corrupt DC money machine (see his campaign contributors for a detailed representation of what that means) that funds your incumbency—and therefore your free, well funded, political speech? How do we get an opposing message out against a dirty, pandering, politician like yourself who has a compliant media at his beck and call anytime he has something to say?
If, in fact, Washington is broken as you claim, politicians broke it. Hypocrites like yourself. So how do we fight you if we object to your policies without the same advantage you have hard wired into your ability to call a press conference or write a note on the taxpayer dime, or even to vote favors to whatever interest attracts your fancy and reap the rewards in more campaign contributions?
You have unlimited access to deliver your political speech, and plenty of big corporations and special interests to fund your campaign speech. Effective political speech—ad buys, radio time, large lit drops, cost thousands, sometimes millions. So any effort by you to prevent others from even competing—just competing—smells of tyranny from the seat of entrenched power. And funny thing, that’s exactly what it is.
So any effort by you to prohibit speech with any hope of competing with a connected DC insider like yourself, is really just an effort to stifle opposition on issues, or campaigns disguised as populist outrage over something most people will never really understand. That makes you a DC corruptocrat, and a fear monger as well.
HODES
Hypocritical Obdurate Democrat Elitest Sycophant
Heres a few Hodes related reality checks.
When Corruption Reared its ugly head…
The New Media Militia 