Re: Villain of the Week: Bolder Technology Corp

[Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten]

"John D. Giorgis" schreef:

> At 07:04 PM 1/27/01 +0100, Jeroen wrote:
> I know this comes as a shock to you Jeroen, but
> in America we really do vote for our elected officials - even more shocking
> is that Americans don't always vote for the candidate with the most
> corporate money.    For example, I worked in a Congressional Primary race
> recently, with four candidates.    One of the candidates spent $1 million
> dollars of his own money.    My candidate spent 1/10th of that amount.   My
> candidate scored 22% of the vote, and Mr. Millionaire scored all of 8% of
> the vote.

To me 100 000 dollars is more money then I'll ever have to spent on any
campaign. At least in countries of the Europeen Union I could get elected by
working hard, after following the right educational tracks (political sciences,
etc.) and be interested and active in political organisations without spending a
dime of my own money. Actually it's not done to spent corporate money on
elections in the EU. Or am I missing a point here? ;o)

Sonja