ACK! Help me! I'm drowning in a sea of RED!!

[Roland99]

State gives big to help DeLay
Kentuckians donate $113,800 to congressman's legal fund
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050427/NEWS0104/504270468

WASHINGTON -- At a home in Lexington last summer, Charles Lovorn was among a group who got a chance to shake hands and exchange a few words with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Lovorn, executive director of the Kentucky Association of Highway Contractors, paid $5,000 for the privilege, a donation on behalf of his industry to DeLay's legal defense fund.

That contribution and others at the fund-raiser helped push Kentucky companies and individuals to No. 2 in the nation for donations to DeLay's defense fund, which he is using to fight allegations of ethics violations.

The total take from the state so far is $113,800, with only DeLay's home state of Texas giving more, according to House records and an analysis by Congress Watch, a Washington-based watchdog group.

:cry:

In the words of Donkey from Shrek:

"I need a hug"

[demnan]

1. It's probably every sleezy strip mining company

and Mitch McConnell's zombies at work.

[Last Lemming]

2. Oy!

[ClintonTyree]

3. Donations have been WAY down since then...

don't give up hope. Maybe some people have come to their senses by now. Kentucky is a gorgeous State, but I wouldn't want to live there.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

4. Rejoice

in the fact that they are flushing their money down the toilet. Hang in there!

[Mistress Quickly]

5. here

[Roland99]

6. .

:pals:

[CornField]

7. $113,800 would feed 569 families of five for one week... or

one family of five for roughly 11 years.

If placed into a foundation account, that amount would fund a $1,000 scholarship each year. (Without ever losing its initial value.)

It would also fund a child to attend public school for 30,346 days.

And so on...

[beam me up scottie]

8. Here in Bowling Green

feeling your pain...:cry: