Todd Akin (R-MO) Bragged About Being a Congressman for Sale

[Tx4obama]

Note: TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS

Akin Remarks at Fair Tax Kansas City Meeting, 5/11/12:

MAN: I've got a question, it's kind of personal. What's the best way to get in touch with a Congressman? Just write them a letter? I'm not on the internet so I don't have that option.

AKIN: Yeah. Well, there's a lot of different ways, ok? Writing them a letter is, I mean everybody says [inaudible]. The one thing we do is we pick up on the volume. If all of the sudden we've got 400 letters in the office, especially all hand written personal letters on something, woohoo! That just hit the radar screen. You've got incoming, you know? So, you pay attention to a big block of them. The staffers answer the letters because there's no way as a Congressman I could begin. So, writing a letter is ok. If you're going to write the letter say I represent 15,000 crazy fanatics. You want to try to create as much leverage as you can. So, the other question is -- I'll tell you, it sounds sort of self-serving to say it but if you go out and somebody is working on campaigns and you find out that you like them, you think they're a good person, you go help on their campaign, that gets their attention.

I'm in a three way primary for the US Senate. I've gone to people and asked for their support, their help, or their endorsement and some people say yes. They write me a decent check. I remember that. The people that I thought were friends that tell me to go away because they are supporting someone else, I remember that. You know, I can remember back to 12 years ago. You remember who's helping you. That's one way that people get to know Congressmen and Senators.

Related article...

Todd Akin: Constituents Who Want My Attention Should ‘Write Me A Decent Check’
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/24/902481/todd-akin-constituents-who-want-my-attention-should-write-me-a-decent-check/

[hrmjustin]

1. He is going on a common sense tour of the state.

No I am not making that up.

[pepperbear]

2. Some may not like what I am going to say, and I hate to say it.

I LOATHE this man for his stance on women's rights....but he is telling the truth about a majority of candidates. Congress has been bought and sold. The fix has been in for decades, if not since the beginning.

He is an ASS for being so brazen and a slimeball for admitting to being a career politician who's in it for the money, but he is being nothing if not honest about that one tiny point: Money = access. It just does. All this does is prove that we need to take a serious look at campaign finance reform.

[valerief]

3. Love for Sale. Congressional love for sale.

[DiverDave]

4. He just let the 'secret' slip

of COURSE it's about MONEY, it always has been.
And until we take it out of the equation, we will NEVER be represented, never.