Slime job by “Citizens for a Sustainable Economy”
Yesterday, I received a large post card from “Citizens for a Sustainable Economy” saying “Jason Steele’s financial contributors will gas you up and blow you away. See other side for details…”
On the reverse side a banner reads “GREEDY OIL & INSURANCE COMPANIES FINANCE JASON STEELE”. The post card points out among Jason Steele’s contributors were 3 insurance groups and 2 oil companies. Conveniently left off was how much/little they gave and how large/small those contributions were in relation to other donors.
See http://www.floridatoday.com/content/databases/campaignmaster.shtml to look donations for yourself.
As of this morning the largest of Jason Steele’s donors gave $500.00 (less than a third of a percent of his total donations
Jason Steele had 464 donors giving a total of $131,215.64.
Ron Stump had 61 donors giving a total of $18,252.75.
Ken Babington had 95 donors giving a total of $14,373.95.
John Tobia had 26 donors giving a total of $8,620.00.
Tim Shipe has 27 donors giving a total of $1,816.64.
Evidence for the “greedy insurance companies” was an Orlando Sentinel editorial about State Farm rate request. Evidence for the “greedy oil companies” was a Wall Street Journal article about Exxon Mobil profits going up last quarter, omitting any reference to the amount it cost Exxon Mobil to make their record profits or that they paid 3 times as much in taxes as they made in profits.
The postcard ended with “Call Jason Steele. Tell him to stop taking money from State Farm insurance front groups, Exon Mobil and Chevron Corp.”
I thought the use of the term “insurance front groups” was interesting. It reminds me of “Communist front groups”. I did a Google search for “Citizens for a Sustainable Economy”. I found that they don’t have their own web site and they did another hatched job in Lee County ( http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/aug/15/mailing-attacks-signals-start-lee-county-political/?printer=1/ ).
I may vote for Jason Steele just because someone using leftist language doesn’t like him.