Policy---------------Fund-raising

Policy —————– Fund-raising

Posted by donelder on December 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment (Edit)

“There is absolutely zero connection between policy and fund-raising,’’ says Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) spokeswoman, Gail Gitcho. “To insinuate otherwise is just plain wrong.’’

So?

So, during a period of about three weeks when Brown’s critical vote helped decide multi-billion dollar matters of financial industry reform, financial firms and their executive contributed $140,000 to his campaign finance fund. To put this in perspective, Senate Republicans averaged $26,000 over the same period.
Gail Gitcho may not believe that money influences policy, but the financial industry doesn’t seem to mind calling that bet.

Complete story from the Boston Globe.