-Caveat Lector- So here is item I ran across, and I imagine it just makes good campaign talk for most of that money these people get - how much did Pat Buchanan rip us off for was it $12,000,000 dollars, and I say twelve million dollars? Ought to put all these candidates on public service TV...tonight showed re run of Janet Reno on Saturday Night Live - very humorous, two bulls in china shop. So here is item I rather liked.....wonder how much Hill and Bill have virtually stolen in campaign funds? Go get them John McCain - Pat Buchanan got his monies worth - 12 million dollars they act as though it is lunch money - but it is what some call "street money".... So there they go again.......this story says Henry Ford was a nazi in so many words; talk now is he was a communist.......so is there any difference for it is the natural resources this bunch is after, the water we drink, and even the food we eat, and control of the energy........so is California the Great Experiment in bringing people to their knees? Now we have weather as a weapon, food as a weapon, and energy as a weapon? And we give these candidates $12 million dollars to send us all to the poor house in a Cadillac? Saba Series of "Historical Minutes" 1914-1945 January 12, 1922 Senator "Condemned" for Excessive Campaign Expenditures The 1918 election to fill one of Michigan's U.S. Senate seats proved to be one of the most bitter and costly contests of that era. Its spending excesses prompted widespread calls for campaign finance reform. To bolster his party's slim Senate majority, President Woodrow Wilson convinced Democratic automaker Henry Ford to run in the 1918 Democratic primary. Trying to improve his chances, the super-rich Ford also entered the Republican primary. Although he lost that race to industrialist Truman Newberry, Ford captured the Democratic nomination and set out to crush Newberry in the general election. In Newberry, Ford had a tough competitor with similarly unlimited financial resources. Making effective use of campaign advertising, Newberry charged Ford with pacifism, anti-Semitism, and extreme efforts to help his son, Edsel, avoid military service. Newberry narrowly defeated Ford, but charges that he had intimidated voters and violated campaign-spending laws limiting the amount of personal funds candidates could spend on their races clouded his claim to the seat. Pending an investigation, the Senate provisionally seated him in May 1919. As the Senate inquiry got underway, a federal grand jury indicted Newberry on counts of campaign law violations. Despite the senator's assertions that he knew nothing of illegal contributions and disbursements, a massive array of evidence, gathered with the help of agents financed by Henry Ford, indicated otherwise. Found guilty on those charges in March 1920, Newberry launched an appeal that resulted in his May 1921 Supreme Court acquittal. A majority of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections found that the large amounts spent on Newberry's behalf were not his own funds but were contributed by relatives and friends without his solicitation or knowledge and recommended that he retain his seat. On January 12, 1922, a narrowly divided Senate affirmed that Newberry had been duly elected, but "severely condemned" his excessive campaign expenditures as "harmful to the honor and dignity of the Senate." Facing continuing controversy, Newberry resigned from the Senate later that year. The Newberry case led Congress in 1925 to enact a new Federal Corrupt Practices Act, but this statute proved ineffective in containing congressional campaign financial irregularities in the decades ahead. 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