Mr. Romanelli was thankfully unsuccessful, because the petitions collected by a for profit service funded by Republicans and corporations to get his name on the ballot were largely fraudulent.
I was thinking about this today, when I heard a statement on the radio by a Green Party representative saying that they were not "beholden to corporate money".
Looking at the list of donors to the Romanelli campaign, I would argue that they are tied more tightly to corporate money that the Republican party.
Other donations:
- $1,000 from Bill Wichterman, a senior lobbyist at Washington, for such corporate behemoths as Halliburton, Chevron and Unisys, and a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
- $1000 each from Steven Taylor and his wife. Taylor is a major in the
E. Coli outbreakbagged salad industry. Two of his children also donated $4000 to the Green party, while giving around $180,000. to right wing causes in the past few years. - $5000 from Mark Pasquerilla, self-described "big Republican", and heir to a department store fortune.
- $1000 from Gary Andres, a high powered Washington lobbiest, who works for PhRMA, the drug industry PAC, and frequently writes for the reactionary Washington Times and National Review.
- $5000 from James Holman, who also contributed over $1 million to California's anti-abortion proposition 73.
- $5000 from William Grube, a war profiteer in the night vision goggle business.
FWIW, there was one campaign donation not connected to military-industrial complex interests, $30.00 from Carl Romanelli, the candidate.
Well, Mr. welcome to America Mr. Romanelli*, where any man can tart themselves up for dirty corporate money.
Friends don't let friends support the Green Party.
News stories collected from TPMmuckraker and Attytood.
*He's a native born American...It's an ironic metaphor.†
†I know that most of you get this, but the humorless corporate whores that are the Green Party probably won't, hence the footnote.
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